Innovation Metrics

Building a Strategy for the Low Touch Economy

What's BANCA? Fidelity Investments on Their Criteria for Assessing Ideas

"Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018" Launch

Ask Us Anything Webcast, with General Mills & Citi Ventures

25 Recent Data Points and Charts for Innovators in Large Organizations

All Your Innovation Questions, Answered

Building a Strategy for the Low Touch Economy
What's BANCA? Fidelity Investments on Their Criteria for Assessing Ideas
Ask Us Anything Webcast, with General Mills & Citi Ventures
25 Recent Data Points and Charts for Innovators in Large Organizations
All Your Innovation Questions, Answered

Innovation programs have a very short lifespan if they don’t develop a metrics regime that indicates they are making progress — but also isn’t so onerous that too much of the team’s time is spent collecting data and compiling it into reports or presenting it on dashboards.

We put metrics into two categories: activity metrics, which show things like how many training sessions you’ve conducted or startups you’ve met with, and impact metrics, which show tangible outcomes.

A good starting place in this section is our research report, "Untangling Innovation Metrics: What every innovation leader needs to know."

Designing the Perfect Idea Scorecard

If you need to sort through dozens or thousand of ideas, you know it’s no small task. We developed this downloadable spreadsheet to help with evaluation and scoring.

Designing an Innovation Culture that Scales Globally

Imran Sayeed, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses the 3D Model of Innovation that he finds is most effective for innovation programs.

Mehmood Khan on Remaking R&D at PepsiCo & Sustainability

PepsiCo Vice Chairman Mehmood Khan talks about the links between sustainability and innovation; bringing in new skill sets into R&D; the challenge of measuring progress; and more.

Columbia’s Rita McGrath: Is Innovation on the Agenda?

How often is innovation the highest-priority issue at your company? Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, says it ought to happen at every meeting...

How ESPN is Using Data to Call the Plays

George Leimer, VP of Fantasy Sports and Premium Products at ESPN, discusses how the sports network is working to build a data and metrics-oriented culture.

At Intuit and Amazon, Addressing the Customer’s ‘Job to Be Done’

Authors of Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice share an excerpt on how Intuit and Amazon determine whether they’re on the right track.

Research Report

Untangling Innovation Metrics

Measuring innovation has come up in every interview, conversation, and Field Study. This report captures what we’ve learned so far — both what executives are tracking today, and what they’re still working to capture.

Audio & Video Resources

Building a Strategy for the Low Touch Economy

The era after COVID-19 will have an economy shaped by new habits and regulations. Find out how behaviors will shift and what new opportunities are emerging.

What's BANCA? Fidelity Investments on Their Criteria for Assessing Ideas

Sean Belka discusses how the financial services firm assesses new ideas and scales them when the time is right, along with more best practices for running an innovation lab. Belka is a Managing Director in Fidelity’s Corporate Business Development group.