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Resource Optum: Entrepreneur-in-Residence Job Description
April 28, 2017
A detailed job description for the company’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program. Optum is part UnitedHealth Group.
Resource Optum: Overview of Optum Garage
April 28, 2017
A full overview of the Optum Garage training program, which helps teams build new products, establish new businesses and expand customer value through an immersion training program. Optum is a provider of healthcare services that is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Article The Key Players and Tensions in Corporate Innovation
April 25, 2017
We partnered with XPLANE, the renowned “visual thinking” firm, to create a map of the corporate innovation ecosystem, along with discussion questions.
Resource The Corporate Innovation Ecosystem: Map & Discussion Guide
April 25, 2017
Illustrated map laying out the key players inside the company, and outside it, who can contribute to (or sometimes inhibit) corporate innovation. Includes discussion questions useful in laying out innovation strategy and timeframe, and defusing some of the tensions that can occur. Useful guide for a management team discussing how...
Resource RASCI Matrix: For Clarifying Roles & Building Support for Projects
April 18, 2017
A RASCI matrix is a tool that can be used to build consistent support for innovation, while mitigating against common failure modes like role ambiguity, when people aren’t sure what exactly they’re supposed to do — or want to weigh in more than you’d like. This downloadable Excel spreadsheet is...
Resource Dealing With Failure
April 13, 2017
The best organizations in the world will experience failure — they expect it. And they are ready to learn from it. Here’s some advice from Julia Austin, CTO of DigitalOcean and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, about dealing with failure.
Resource Turner Classic Movies: Innovating the Brand
April 11, 2017
Document that offers a way of thinking about how to innovate with (and within) a well-established brand. “As we seek more transformative opportunities that can scale to fill financial gaps created by industry change, how do we remain authentic to who we are as a brand? And how do we innovate for...
Resource Optum: Startups and Innovation
April 5, 2017
A look at the company’s approach to working with startups, told with a humorous “pac-man”-style narrative. Optum is a healthcare services company that is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Resource Staples: Applied Innovation Overview
April 5, 2017
A structured framework of the retailer’s Applied Innovation program, guided by senior leaders.
Resource Survey Questions on Innovation Culture
April 4, 2017
Are you looking for a way to understand whether your company’s innovation culture is improving, staying the same, or getting worse? R&D and innovation executives share with us the questions they’ve used as part of quarterly or annual surveys to “take the temperature” of the organization.
Resource Reliance Industries: Innovation at Reliance
March 21, 2017
Overview of the innovation programs at the $43 billion Indian conglomerate. Includes seven innovation habits, and a slide about the company’s “innovation DNA.”
Article The Corporate Innovation Roadmap: Vision to Impact
March 1, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
We put together this roadmap to help you think through some of the elements you’ll need to put in place to ensure that projects make it to the finish line. Download it here…
Resource Corporate Innovation Roadmap
February 28, 2017
Getting consensus to launch a new innovation initiative can require tremendous time and energy. We put together this two-page roadmap/worksheet to help you think through some of the elements you’ll need to put in place to ensure that projects make it to the finish line, and that you can build...
Resource Ties Between Innovation & Business Units
January 28, 2017
Survey data from 2017 on the relationship between innovation/R&D groups and the business units, including who supplies funding, who sets the agenda, and how well the hand-off works.
Resource The Innovation Imperative
January 17, 2017
Ideal for someone just getting started in an innovation role, making the case for sufficient resources, or working to get a program off the ground. This presentation collects some of the best advice we’ve heard on getting an initiative going; some of the choices that you’ll face; some of our...
Resource 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report
January 16, 2017
Highlights from our 2015 Benchmarking Report, produced in collaboration with Innosight. Includes data on program focus, maturity stage, team size, tools being used, why projects get killed, and more.
Resource Best & Worst Practices in Measuring Innovation
January 16, 2017
Presentation from Front End of Innovation 2015 covering some of the ways companies do (and should) track innovation — and where metrics are headed.
Resource Getting Connected Products Right
January 16, 2017
Highlights from our 2016 Connected Products Survey, emphasizing investment levels, challenges, and success factors. Produced in collaboration with Altitude.
Resource Vodafone: The Catalyst for Change
November 9, 2016
Overview of the innovation program at the British telecommunications company, with a special focus on how they created a global network of innovation champions; the impact so far; and best practices in setting up a similar champion network. Includes a chart summarizing comments from the employees who have participated.
Resource Honda: Driving Open Innovation
September 24, 2016
How Honda’s Silicon Valley Lab is engaging with startups, including providing test vehicles, funding, mentorship, and collaborative workspace.