Innovation Metrics

Has Your Organization Racked Up an Innovation Deficit?

Why Shelf Space is One of the Most Important Metrics at Rust-Oleum

Innovation Emergency Objectives & Key Results

Video: How Frequently Should You Report on Metrics?

Video: How Mature are Your Innovation Metrics?

Has Your Organization Racked Up an Innovation Deficit?
Why Shelf Space is One of the Most Important Metrics at Rust-Oleum
Innovation Emergency Objectives & Key Results
Video: How Frequently Should You Report on Metrics?
Video: How Mature are Your Innovation Metrics?

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."

Developing Innovation Metrics & Reports That Really Matter

To shed light on how large companies are creating metrics and reporting approaches that work well, we surveyed 196 professionals in large organizations in the first quarter of 2021.

Assessment: What Stage of Innovation Maturity is Your Organization At?

Welcome to IL’s Innovation Maturity Model assessment. This diagnostic is designed to help innovation, R&D, strategy, and new product development leaders understand the strengths and weaknesses of their innovation programs, and provide an instant score.

A Model for Measuring Corporate Innovation Programs

There is no silver bullet or a quick solution for measuring the impact of innovation, but this model brings structure to the process of measuring the health of innovation programs and their impact.

How One Innovation Leader Grew His Team During COVID-19

One innovator from Stanley Black & Decker shares insights on how COVID-19 has impacted his innovation strategy in 2020 and how his team has managed to secure key wins during the pandemic.

25 Recent Data Points and Charts for Innovators in Large Organizations

This presentation includes 25 charts, graphs and rankings—all published in 2018 or 2019—that are relevant to people working on innovation and R&D initiatives in large organizations. The material comes from Innovation Leader research reports, as well as reports produced by Deloitte, KPMG, BCG, and others. You can download the presentation in PDF or PowerPoint form.

Innovation at The Nature Conservancy

Jennifer Chin of The Nature Conservancy discusses the organization’s Sustainability Accelerator, and what corporates can learn from nonprofits…

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

Innovation Emergency Objectives & Key Results

Defining the right innovation objectives and key results (OKRs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be the determining factor that helps innovation teams prove value. In this Master Class, Ludwig Melik and Sara Husk of Planbox share their best practices and research-based insights to help teams improve their OKR strategy.

How CSAA’s Chief Innovation Officer Approaches Disruption

How do Chief Innovation Officers build a strategic pipeline of innovation activities? And, what do they do to influence culture? CInOs from CSAA and PA Consulting explain.

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.