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Article How Google X Works to Systematize Innovation
November 19, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
Helen Riley of Google X talks about the organization's mission; several current projects; how they deal with failure; and their efforts to systematize innovation.
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call Dec. 10th: Success Considerations for Type I vs Type II Innovation Programs
What is the difference between a Type I and Type II innovation program? Join Chris Townsend of Wellspring to discuss the differing determinants of success, reporting structures, OKRs, and more.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Getting Real Business Value from AI
November 13, 2025 | By Stephanie Creech, Ezassi
Stephanie Creech of Ezassi highlights five principles for turning AI into real business value: grounding data, enabling autonomy, orchestrating tools, ensuring transparency, and focusing on measurable impact. She shows how Ezassi’s RAG + Agentic AI systems move organizations from experimentation to scalable results. This article is part of the Pointers...
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Building an Innovation Engine
November 13, 2025 | By Chris Townsend, Wellspring
Chris Townsend of Wellspring highlights five essentials for a scalable innovation engine: visibility, strategic focus, governance, speed, and rigor. Leading organizations treat innovation as a disciplined growth strategy, turning ideas into measurable results through clear structure and confident execution. This article shows how operational focus transforms creativity into lasting business...
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Getting Real Business Value from AI
November 13, 2025 | By Parker Lee, Territory, Inc.
Parker Lee of Territory identifies five essentials for turning AI pilots into business value: clear strategy, empowered people, scalable processes, living data, and business-defined success. It is part of the Pointers 2025 edition, The Five Things That Matter Most.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most when Venture Building
November 13, 2025 | By Molly Cross, Alloy Partners
Molly Cross of Alloy Partners outlines five essentials for corporations building startups —governance, talent, incentives, corporate advantage, and metrics. She shows how clear structure, entrepreneurial teams, and flexible funding drive aligned yet independent growth, turning corporate strengths into lasting innovation and measurable impact. This article is part of the Pointers...
Thought Leadership AI in Practice: The 5 Most Effective Ways AI is Accelerating Corporate Innovation
November 13, 2025 | By Vincent Atallah, Aucctus AI
Vincent Atallah of Aucctus outlines five ways AI accelerates corporate innovation —aligning ideas with strategy, validating concepts, identifying risks, testing efficiently, and systematizing workflows. He shows how AI brings speed, structure, and confidence to innovation. This article is part of the Pointers 2025 edition, The Five Things That Matter Most.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Modern R&D
November 13, 2025 | By Dr. Tassilo Henike, ITONICS
Dr. Tassilo Henike of ITONICS highlights five ways to modernize R&D for competitive advantage: adopting agile steering, using venture-style funding, embedding AI as a collaborative partner, running parallel experiments, and prioritizing near-term, high-impact initiatives. He shows how leading organizations move from rigid workflows to flexible, data-driven, and innovation-focused research.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Working with Your CSM to Unlock Platform Value
November 13, 2025 | By Hanna Zöller, innosabi
Hanna Zöller of innosabi highlights five ways to unlock true value from innovation platforms: building relationships, anticipating needs, aligning tools with processes, fostering community, and maintaining consistent communication. She shows how effective CSM partnerships turn software adoption into measurable innovation outcomes.
Thought Leadership 5 Things that Matter Most About Helping Employees Feel Empowered, Not Overpowered, by AI
November 13, 2025 | By Dr. Oana-Maria Pop, HYPE Innovation
Although AI is mostly taking over the boring stuff, it still leaves many of us wondering: what’s our role in the grand innovation management scheme? Oana-Maria Pop of HYPE Innovation has thoughts...
Thought Leadership 5 Things that Matter Most About New Business Investment Decision Making
November 9, 2025 | By Jim Bodio, BRI Associates
Jim Bodio of BRI Associates outlines five essentials for smarter business investment decisions: clear criteria, focused strategy, right-sized analysis, disciplined decision hygiene, and actionable outcomes. He shows how structure and evidence help companies take smarter risks and act decisively.
On Demand Webcast High ROI Innovation: Affordable Activities with the Best Returns
November 5, 2025
This webcast explores how low-cost, real-world experiments can deliver insights that traditional user research and surveys can’t. Josh Clayton and Tim Ogilvie of Peer Insight share stories of simple, rapid tests that saved millions, revealed customer truths, and built executive confidence.
On Demand Webcast Blind Spots, Big Bets, and Turning Uncertainty into Innovation
October 28, 2025
Matthew Heim from Ezassi and Jon Mello from Teknor Apex share their advice for entering new markets.
Video Advice from The LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab
October 3, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
What can other company's learn from The LEGO Group's Creative Play Lab? Check out these short videos...
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call Oct. 9th: Blind Spots, Big Bets: Turning Uncertainty Into Innovation
Matthew Heim from Ezassi and Jon Mello from Teknor Apex share their advice for entering new markets.
On Demand Webcast The AI-Native Business Design Toolkit
September 26, 2025
AI is changing how new businesses are designed. This webcast features Matt Stewart of Disruptive Edge providing a hands-on walkthrough of some AI-native tools they're using to reshape early-stage innovation.
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call Oct. 14th: High-ROI Innovation: Affordable Activities with the Best Returns
Learn how low-cost, real-world experiments can deliver insights that traditional user research and surveys can’t. We’ll share stories of simple, rapid tests that saved millions, revealed customer truths, and built executive confidence.
Article Moving Industries Forward: The Winners and Finalists for InnoLead’s 2025 Impact Awards
September 4, 2025
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...
On Demand Webcast Unlocking Growth in Uncertain Times: How Growth Innovation Drives Transformation
August 22, 2025
This webcast features Chris Townsend of Wellspring discussing how a growth innovation methodology helps companies not only adapt, but thrive.
On Demand Webcast From Intel’s Trenches: How to Shield Your Innovation from Corporate Antibodies
August 22, 2025
Corporate innovation often faces its greatest threat not from external competition, but from internal "antibodies" that systematically reject transformational ideas. In this webcast replay, seasoned innovation leaders share hard-won insights from over 15 years leading Intel's new business incubator.