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Article Deploying AI at $28B Sun Life Financial: Learnings So Far
August 31, 2026 | By Nicole Lewis, Contributing Writer
InnoLead interviews Sun Life exec Laura Money about how she prioritizes AI projects; some of the concrete outcomes they’re seeing so far; and why Sun Life has joined other Canadian companies to form the AI Consortium.
Article Fidelity, GM, and Best Buy Heath: Stories from the Front Line of Deploying New Technology
August 21, 2026 | By Scott Kirsner
Speakers at our recent Impact conference share advice on getting new tech across the gap from demo to deployment.
Resource Vibe Entrepreneurship: Building Prototypes, Not PowerPoints
August 17, 2026
Video from our July 2026 members' meeting focused on "vibe entrepreneurship" and intrapreneurship.
Article A Practical Guide to Using AI to Identify Problems Worth Solving
August 5, 2026 | By Ranjan Dash, Strategic Advisor, Early Charm Ventures and Suresh Chandran, Clinical Professor, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
How can AI be useful in business-to-business innovation? By identifying the right problems to solve, write Ranjan Dash and Suresh Chandran.
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.
Article How to Think About Startup Engagement in 2026
July 27, 2026 | By Chris Varley, Goodyear Ventures
In a session at the most recent Impact conference last month, we looked at some of the reasons why it might make sense to partner with a startup rather doing everything in-house — and a few metrics and indicators that can let you know whether or not your approach is working.
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 Why Mitsubishi Electric is Setting Up a New Innovation Hub
June 4, 2026 | By Nicole Lewis, Contributing Writer
This month, Mitsubishi Electric U.S. is opening a new innovation hub in Boston. What's the goal? We talk to two leaders...
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.

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