All metrics articles

Article Five Reasons You Should Be Measuring for Effect
August 10, 2022 | By Matt Mueller, Contributing Columnist and Senior Innovation Strategist at Mintel
Matt Mueller, an innovation professional with over 15 years of experience, shares the value in measuring for what may seem intangible: the effect innovation groups have on an organization as a whole. He gives examples and tips to help discern how to measure effect in your organization.
Article Goodyear Executive Shares a Roadmap for Company’s Sustainability Goals
June 21, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Ellis Jones, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, explains how the company’s Global Sustainability Team does its work and highlights how metrics have helped move progress forward inside the organization.
Article DuPont’s Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer Talks Metrics
May 26, 2022
In an excerpt from the new book Innovation Accounting, authors Dan Toma and Esther Gons talk with DuPont’s Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer about the intricacies of measuring innovation progress.
Article The 9 Myths of Measuring Innovation
April 26, 2022
In the new book Innovation Accounting, authors Dan Toma and Esther Gons lay out nine of the common innovation myths of measuring innovation.
Article What I Wish I Knew Before I Joined the Innovation Team
February 24, 2022 | By Matt Mueller, Contributing Columnist and Senior Innovation Strategist at Mintel
Innovation is about going fast… or so Matt Mueller thought as an innovation novice drafted onto the team at a major food brand. In this piece, Mueller shares the challenges he wished he knew about beforehand.
Video Data Insights: Which Emerging Technologies Matter Most to Large Companies?
November 23, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner
Which emerging technologies are large companies learning about…investing in… and actually rolling out? This short video serves up three different lists of specific technologies, based on a recent IL survey.
Video Data Insights: Allocating Resources Across the Three Horizons
November 22, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner
How are companies allocating resources across the so-called “three horizons” of innovation — incremental, adjacent, and transformational projects? This short video serves up the answer, based on IL data.
Video Data Insights: The Two Kinds of Innovation Metrics
November 22, 2021 | By Kaitlin Milliken
What are the different categories of innovation metrics — and which one is most important? This short video answers those questions, with input from Dana Naberezny of Tiffany & Co.’s Jewelry Design and Innovation Workshop.