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Article Software Provider Profile: Qmarkets
January 23, 2026
Qmarkets helps large organizations move beyond fragmented innovation initiatives and deliver measurable business impact at scale. Built for the realities of enterprise innovation, the platform enables organizations to manage innovation end to end, from early exploration to execution and impact tracking.
Video Market Intelligence Briefing: H1 2025
May 6, 2025 | By Alex Slawsby
Alex Slawsby delivers a March 2025 market intelligence briefing, with input from Allison Collings of NRG and Daniel Eckman from Yum Brands, as well as InnoLead co-founder and membership liaison Scott Cohen.
Article How SAP Created a ‘Safe Zone’ for Experiments
November 19, 2024 | By Claus von Riegen
The software giant SAP employs more than 100,000 people globally, and employees are able to test-drive new product ideas with customers, almost like startup founders. Head of Strategy Claus von Riegen explains how it works.
Article Software Provider Profile: innosabi
June 14, 2024
innosabi is one of the world‘s leading providers of software solutions for collaborative innovation and idea management. Large international corporations rely on innosabi‘s software and methodological knowledge to transform their innovation processes by enabling open collaboration with customers, employees, suppliers, and other relevant stakeholders. innosabi empowers organizations to leverage their...
Article Software Provider Profile: HYPE Innovation
June 3, 2024
HYPE Innovation is the all-in-one, end-to-end agile innovation management platform, powered by people and supercharged by AI. Recognized as the Customers’ Choice 2023 by Gartner Peer Insights (that means our customers rated us #1!), we enable some of the world’s biggest brands like ExxonMobil, Toyota, Merck, BMW, Airbus, CVS Health...
Article Software Provider Profile: edison365
April 11, 2024
edison365 delivers end-to-end business transformation; enabling global teams to strategize, innovate, and deliver their entire portfolio. It’s through edison365’s powerful tools that your business can identify and deliver ROI-driven opportunities. All in one place!
Research Report Innovation Software: The Start of the Gen AI Era
March 21, 2024
Major changes are rippling through the innovation software landscape in 2024, with industry consolidation among established players and the continued explosion of new generative AI tools and platforms. This new report explores what's happening in 2024, leveraging exclusive survey data.
Article Software Provider Profile: FifthRow
March 1, 2024
FifthRow is an AI Venture Studio. FifthRow's mission is to "automate Research, Discovery, Validation and Testing of new innovations by 100x" by leveraging Generative AI.
Article What to Know About Innovation Software
January 23, 2024 | By Alex Slawsby
This article explores how the usage of software by innovation groups is changing in 2024. It looks at two categories — mainstream productivity applications and innovation management software — and raises questions about how generative AI will change them.
Article How Autodesk Has Been Evolving Its Technology Centers in the US and Canada
September 26, 2022
Prior to COVID, Autodesk’s Technology Centers in Boston, San Francisco, and Toronto had been inviting in artists, entrepreneurs, and makers to work on projects or new ventures, in the hopes that they could help Autodesk better understand its future customers. “The mission was really about how will things be made...
Article How Software-Maker PTC Prototypes the Future of AR and VR
January 10, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
The $1.8 billion software company PTC makes software used to design physical products, and to connect them to the Internet of Things. In 2017, the Boston company created a new Reality Lab. Its leader, Valentin Heun, says, “We look at problems in the company that cannot be solved wth short-term business...
Article Member Spotlight: Swapnil Deshpande, Thoughtworks
December 2, 2021
IL member Swapnil Desphande, Chief Digital Officer at the tech consultancy Thoughtworks, talks about the importance of selling ideas — and not taking failure personally.