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Downloadable Document Library
Here you’ll find actual documents used by our members — including templates, spreadsheets, powerpoint slides, project documents, and more — from innovation executives at large companies like Coca-Cola, Target, Intel, Disney, Marriott, Nike, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and many others. Choose the category "Innovation Leader Resources" to see those created by Innovation Leader, in collaboration with former executives at Pfizer, Transamerica, Keurig Dr Pepper, VMware, BNY Mellon, and other companies.
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Collected Data from Innovation Leader’s Recent Reports
Innovation Leader publishes in-depth quarterly special reports on a variety of topics, from startup engagement, to working with risk and compliance, to executing on quick wins, and more. This presentation collects charts and graphs from Innovation Leader’s recent research reports for your use.
Gensler: Everything You’d Ever Want (or Never Want) in an Innovation Hub
An innovation hub is a distinct environment strategically designed and actively nurtured to promote a way of working that is fundamentally different from an organization’s norm. (Some call them labs, centers, accelerators, or incubators.) But not all innovation hubs are created equal. Innovation Leader and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed up to create an illustrated guide to innovation hubs — the good and the bad.
Capital Group: Applying Design Thinking Methods
Details how the investment management firm is applying design thinking.
Culture, Personnel, and Org Structure
Microsoft: DevDiv Culture, Values & Behaviors
A presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.
BAE Systems: Grassroots Innovation and Senior Leadership, Tying it all Together
How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.
American Family Insurance: Innovation Org Design
A flow-chart of the insurance company’s innovation organization.
Events, Contests, and Competitions
Caliber Public Safety: Hackathon Flyer
Hackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.
Boeing: Innovation Day Pitch Deck
A slide deck template for participants in Boeing’s Innovation Day competition.
Harris Computer: The Innovator’s Voice
A guide to Harris Computer's “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.
Frameworks & Models
Dunkin’ Brands: What Happens in an Internet Minute?
Why do you need to move fast? This graphic lays out all of the things that happen on the Internet every minute, from Amazon sales to Netflix movies viewed.
LogMeIn: The Innovation Journey
Explores how the collaboration software companies thinks about horizons; lean startup; training; and scaling projects that work.
Technology Trends Radar
Submitted anonymously in 2018, this slide looks at technology trends that apply to a company’s core business — or could be relevant to adjacent or white space projects. Includes blockchain, quantum computing, AI, and drones as examples.
Innovation Leader Resources
Collected Data from Innovation Leader’s Recent Reports
Innovation Leader publishes in-depth quarterly special reports on a variety of topics, from startup engagement, to working with risk and compliance, to executing on quick wins, and more. This presentation collects charts and graphs from Innovation Leader’s recent research reports for your use.
Three Stages of Collective Problem Solving With Regulatory or Compliance Partners
In this one-page guide, former Pfizer Head of Worldwide Innovation Dan Seewald details three stages of collective problem solving with colleagues in the regulatory and compliance departments.
Graphic: Four Stages of Commercial Innovation
In this PDF graphic, former BNY Mellon exec Rob Erman defines four stages that he has seen successful projects go through on their way to the market…
Job Descriptions
Citigroup: Startup Coach Job Description
Job description for a Singapore-based position at Citi Ventures — a D10X Startup Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence who will play “a critical role in the D10X program by helping the D10X startup teams keep their ‘eye on the prize’, providing an outside-in perspective, staying true to the D10X process and generally ...
Disney: Director of Technologies, Innovation Enablement
Job description for a role at Disney that will “be responsible for establishing this new function through the development of strategies for the Emerging Technologies portfolio, and facilitating the delivery of innovative projects from ideation through implementation.”
ECMC Group: Director of Innovation Job Description
A short description outlining the responsibilities of the director of innovation at ECMC Group, one of 35 Federal Family Education Loan Program Guarantors.
Labs & Centers
Gensler: Everything You’d Ever Want (or Never Want) in an Innovation Hub
An innovation hub is a distinct environment strategically designed and actively nurtured to promote a way of working that is fundamentally different from an organization’s norm. (Some call them labs, centers, accelerators, or incubators.) But not all innovation hubs are created equal. Innovation Leader and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed up to create an illustrated guide to innovation hubs — the good and the bad.
BNY Mellon: Global Innovation Centers Overview
Short overview of BNY Mellon’s network of innovation centers, their approach, and focus.
Bayer: Life Science iHub Overview
An overview and photos of Bayer's Life Science iHub center and team, focused on digital technologies. The iHub's competencies include sensors, machine learning, app development, and business model innovation.
Metrics & Scorecards
Intel: Corporate Innovation Program Metrics
A succinct one-page guide to creating metrics for various aspects of a corporate innovation program, from process to people to customer development to decision-making.
CSAA Insurance: Measuring Insight & Innovation
How the California-based insurer CSAA measures its innovation efforts, including a scorecard, key drivers, and a maturity model.
Owens Corning: Innovation for Value Creation
Short PowerPoint presentation that covers Owens Corning’s market intelligence and brainstorming tool; capabilities mapping; measuring the return on innovation; and the company’s various awards for innovative and high-performing teams.
Processes & Methodologies
Capital Group: Applying Design Thinking Methods
Details how the investment management firm is applying design thinking.
Google: Innovation Principles
Created by the Google for Work Innovation Lab, which helps to train Google employees, this 19-slide deck lays out a set of principles that guide innovation at the company, including “be prototype-driven” and ”focus on the user — and all else follows.”
Home Depot: Building the Culture of Design Thinking
The Design Sprint framework is a problem-solving methodology used to identify, understand, and validate business opportunities. Download this short presentation on Home Depot practices design thinking.
Strategy Presentations
Medtronic: Meaningful Innovation Brief
Short overview of how the medical device maker defines “meaningful innovation,” along with some examples of successful projects. Breaks innovation down into “therapy innovation,” “system innovation,” and ”procedural innovation.”
Exelon: Driving a Culture of Innovation
Overview of trends and digital transformation strategy at the $33.5 billion energy company — as well as the challenges of pursuing innovation in the nuclear power industry.
Black & Veatch: Growth Accelerator Overview
Slide deck outlining the growth accelerator at Black & Veatch, a $3.2 billion engineering firm based in Kansas City, Mo. The accelerator “works both outside our core business and with our core businesses. In either case, we seek to discover new opportunities for clients and the global communities in which ...
Templates
WD-40: Project Management Guide
Lots of definitions and templates related to the project management process at WD-40.
ECMC: Project Submission Form
Form for submitting ideas for projects to the innovation team at the student loan company ECMC. Includes definition of an “ideal project” — as well as what is less than ideal.
Clorox: Open Innovation Expert Request Form
Single page form used by Clorox employees who need to request help from the open innovation team.
