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On Demand Webcast How Innovation Teams Restructure and Reskill When AI Runs the Process
August 3, 2026
This replay with Berto Mill of Aucctus and corporate innovation veteran Harry Laplanche discussed how forward-looking teams are restructuring and reskilling for a world where AI runs the connected process.
Article How Synchrony is Preparing for the Arrival of Agentic Commerce
August 3, 2026 | By Dawn Kawamoto, Contributing Writer
Remember the emergence of e-commerce in the 1990s? Keep an eye on the horizon for agentic commerce, says Carol Juel, executive vice president and CEO of Synchrony Financial’s Digital Platform.
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call September 30th: Place Better Bets in Innovation’s Messy Middle
Learn how to make better decisions about whether to punt, pivot, or persevere during the "messy middle" of a project.
Article What Should Companies Do with All the Free Time that AI Creates?
July 17, 2026 | By Scott Kirsner
If AI software is going to take over a bevy of repetitive tasks and processes, then what should organizations be doing with the time that frees up? We talk with business school prof David Schonthal.
On Demand Webcast Fighting for Your Budget: Using Visual Strategy to Prove Unseen Value
July 7, 2026
In this session, Qmarkets shares findings from a recent study of innovation maturity across enterprise organizations, including three patterns that explain why so many programs feel busy but can’t show results. Watch the replay or get the slides.
Article How Perdue Farms is Pursuing Differentiation with AI
July 7, 2026 | By Nicole Lewis, Contributing Writer
We talk with Perdue Farms CIO Mark Booth about the company’s AI journey, including what future concerns are keeping him up at night.
Article Rewiring the Way R&D Organizations Think
July 6, 2026 | By Deirdre Walters, Founder, Untapped Innovation
R&D teams tend to understand their products with precision — but not always the people those products are designed for. Deirdre Walters explains how to address that...
On Demand Webcast The Impact Gap: Why Enterprise Innovation Programs Stall — and What the Data Reveals
July 1, 2026
In this session, Qmarkets shares findings from a recent study of innovation maturity across enterprise organizations, including three patterns that explain why so many programs feel busy but can’t show results. Watch the replay or get the slides.
Article Why Digital Transformation Still Gets Stuck Inside Large Organizations
July 1, 2026 | By Marcus East
When digital transformation gets stuck, the reason is rarely a lack of technology, writes Marcus East. More often, new technology is being added to organizations that still operate through outdated systems, rigid structures, and old assumptions about how work should get done.
Article How Sweetwater Stays Connected to Customers — While Also Leveraging AI
June 26, 2026 | By Curtis Michelson
We talk to the music retailer's CEO and CIO about innovation and AI — and maintaining a strong connection to customers.
Article Five Steps That Make Change Easier
June 12, 2026
In this excerpt from the new book How Change Really Work, the authors caution that "take up" of change and new ideas among your colleagues is never automatic, but must be earned. Then they present five steps for earning it.
Article Strategic Innovation Demands an Investment Thesis
May 26, 2026 | By Ranjan Dash, Strategic Advisor, Early Charm Ventures and Suresh Chandran, Clinical Professor, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
To survive in an environment where average business model lifespans have collapsed, corporate innovators must move from unstructured ideation to the rigorous discipline of successful venture capitalists, write Ranjan Dash and Suresh Chandran
Article Here are the Winners (and Finalists) of InnoLead’s 2026 Impact Awards
May 18, 2026
From supersonic aircraft to heavy trucks to robotic surgical assistants, this year’s Impact Awards focus on companies that are moving their industries forward. Here are the 15 finalists...
Article Why Innovation Can’t Happen Without Playfulness
May 13, 2026 | By Scott Kirsner
Innovation can't exist in a culture that doesn't allow for playfulness, says Piera Gelardi, author of the new book The Playful Way. Yet the environment in many workplaces today is shaped by plenty of non-playful dynamics. So what do you do?
Article Innovating With Agents: Two Months (and Counting) with OpenClaw on Our Team
May 12, 2026 | By Curtis Michelson
Corporations are diverting resources from innovation to fund AI initiatives. What does this mean for innovation managers? The co-authors of a new book explain.
Article Is the Latest Wave of AI Leading to an ‘Innovation Winter’?
May 4, 2026
Corporations are diverting resources from innovation to fund AI initiatives. What does this mean for innovation managers? The co-authors of a new book explain.
Article What GenAI Changes for Leaders in Large Organizations
April 13, 2026
GenAI isn't just about creating new efficiencies, writes Itai Green in this excerpt from his new book. It's about shifting the company's DNA toward an innovation mindset.
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call June 4th: Fighting for Your Budget: Using Visual Strategy to Prove Unseen Value
This live session with Parker Lee of Territory will teach you how to use prototypes and visual maps as "evidence" of value during the "messy middle" of a project.
Article How to Survive the ‘Stakeholder Spiral’
March 26, 2026
Every project in a big organization projects attract layers of stakeholders, each with their own interests, fears, and mental models. In this excerpt from his new book, Misha de Sterk offers advice on managing that dynamic.
Article The Death of the Design Process (and the Rise of the Infinity Loop)
March 24, 2026 | By Todd Reily
The design process as we knew it is most certainly dead, writes Todd Reily in his latest piece for InnoLead. What's replacing it?