All Strategy Presentations

Resource Blue Cross Blue Shield: Constructive Collaboration with Business Units and Functions
April 12, 2025
This 13-page PDF presents the outcomes of a session led by David Crean, Chief Innovation Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, at the 2024 Impact conference. It explores key success metrics that business leaders focus on; how those are different from the metrics innovation leaders focus on; attitudes...
Resource What is Happening with AI?
March 20, 2025
40 slides on the trajectory of AI, strategic questions companies should be asking in 2025, and case studies of deployments at companies like J.P. Morgan and Nissan.
Resource CarMax: Inside a Massive Digital Transformation
January 23, 2025
This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.
Resource Bayer: Innovation for the Long-Term Slide Deck and Video
January 23, 2025
This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.
Resource Innovation Stage Gate Playbook and Workshop Deck
January 23, 2025
Developed for use at a high-profile media company, this 29-page PDF playbook is "a reference to guide you through a repeatable end to end innovation approach."
Resource MIT: Overview of the 7th Era of the Computing Revolution (AI)
July 23, 2024
Presented at an InnoLead event in May 2023, this short PDF preso puts AI into context, and looks at how it will transform layers of civilization, from fashion to culture to nature.
Resource What Does It Take to Make Strategic Innovation Stick?
June 10, 2024
Short but specific slide deck from a June 2024 InnoLead members meeting. Covers what must be in place to build capability for strategic innovation, as well as key lessons from trying to ensure the capability survives and thrives over time.
Resource Best Buy Health President on the Next Five Years of AI in Healthcare
January 23, 2024
Presented at an InnoLead event in May 2023, this short PPT preso serves up an overview of how AI will impact healthcare over the coming five years, specifically focused on wellness/healthcare/aging at home, but also touching on drug discovery and the work of clinicians.
Resource Fidelity Investments: GenAI Today and Tomorrow
January 6, 2024
This short PPT deck looks at the state of generative AI in 2023 and poses the questions of whether it might help facilitate better knowledge management across silos of a large organization, or change the way user interfaces are designed.
Resource Pitch Deck: Designing a Corporate Venturing/Startup Engagement Strategy
July 18, 2022
Created inside a publicly-traded insurance firm, this PowerPoint deck makes the case for committing resources to the startup ecosystem, venture funds, accelerators, and universities.
Resource Clearly Defining Your Innovation Strategy, Vision, and Mission
January 23, 2022
This short PowerPoint deck, developed inside a publicly-traded manufacturing company, was created to make sure that everyone is on the same page with the “What, Where, When, Why, How” of innovation. It includes explainer slides with annotations, followed by slides that can be easily adapted for use with your company.
Resource Medtronic: Meaningful Innovation Brief
December 24, 2019
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.”
Resource Exelon: Driving a Culture of Innovation
December 24, 2019
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.
Resource Black & Veatch: Growth Accelerator Overview
December 24, 2019
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 we work.” Offers...
Resource NBA: Developing an Innovation Strategy
December 24, 2019
Five steps to creating an innovation strategy. Just one slide, but captures the key questions to ask.
Resource Bosch: How We Set Up an Innovation Pipeline
October 25, 2019
Presentation from the German engineering and tech company Robert Bosch GmbH on some of the dynamics that make innovation challenging in established companies, and how the company created an accelerator program that enables employees to form teams and validate opportunities. The accelerator “enables evidence-based investment decisions” and has significantly reduced...
Resource XRC Labs: The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Engage with Accelerator Programs
October 25, 2018
Presentation given by Pano Anthos of XRC Labs at Impact 2018 on the right and wrong ways for corporates to engage with accelerator programs. Includes a slide outlining the signs or hallmarks that a corporate culture has set up the proper structure for working with startup companies.
Resource Amsurg: Our Journey Into Innovation
July 17, 2018
Six-page presentation covering the creation of an Enterprise Investing Group within the healthcare firm, lessons learned, and remaining challenges.
Resource Mars Wrigley: Breakthrough Packaging Development
February 13, 2018
Trends and customer dynamics driving the need for breakthrough packaging ideas at the Chicago-based candy company.
Resource Home Depot: Actual Intelligence Built on A.I.
January 7, 2018
Overview of how Home Depot is approaching artificial intelligence, given the complexity of many home improvement projects. Includes three lessons learned so far.