Strategy & Governance

Has your organization racked up an innovation deficit?

How Dana-Farber Leverages Partnerships to Advance Cancer Treatments

Member Spotlight: Michael Gudas, Liberty Mutual

Member Spotlight: Melanie Nuce, GS1 US

PayPal on Getting Design Involved Early in Innovation Projects

Has your organization racked up an innovation deficit?
How Dana-Farber Leverages Partnerships to Advance Cancer Treatments
Member Spotlight: Michael Gudas, Liberty Mutual
Member Spotlight: Melanie Nuce, GS1 US
PayPal on Getting Design Involved Early in Innovation Projects

Innovation groups often get created by fiat, before they’ve developed a strategy. And many companies have existing R&D or product development organizations that would benefit from fresh thinking about their mission.

Whether you’re laying out strategy for the first time, or as part of an update process, our coverage allows you to learn from veterans of innovation and R&D roles. A good resource to start with is our Benchmarking Report, published in collaboration with KPMG, which includes data on the structure, focus, budgets, and size of innovation teams at large companies, as well as advice from executives in senior innovation and strategy roles.

P&G’s Global Design Officer on How Design Inspires Experimentation

Why do we trust Mr. Clean, outfitted in a white t-shirt with one hoop earring, to clean our homes, or the family of blue Charmin bears to sell us toilet paper? We speak to Procter & Gamble’s Global Design Officer Phil Duncan to learn more.

Corporate Innovators Talk Cost-Cutting and the Need to Reinvest in Innovation

During a recent conversation on the Clubhouse app, corporate innovators discussed weathering the COVID recession, pursuing breakthrough ideas, and corporate venture capital programs.

Member Spotlight: Tom Wagner, AstraZeneca

Tom Wagner is the Director of Digital Research, Knowledge Management & Market Intelligence at AstraZeneca. We spoke with Wagner as part of our IL Member Spotlight series, which profiles our members.

Bosch VP: Create a ‘Diverse Funnel’ of Experiments

Uwe Kirschner of Bosch Innovation Consulting shared his team’s biggest accomplishments from 2020, as well as advice he wished he knew sooner…

How Illumina is Building a Genomics Ecosystem

Amanda Cashin is the Global Head of the Illumina Accelerator, a startup accelerator that is dedicated to making human genome sequencing more accessible and useful. We spoke with Cashin about recent accomplishments.

Explaining the Five Stages of Innovation Maturity

Large organizations often want to know where they stand when it comes to innovation maturity, progress, or sophistication. We divide this journey into five stages, from “ad hoc” to “optimized.” These are our definitions of each stage, along with data about how many organizations fall into each one.

Research Report

Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018

Innovating inside large organizations is not easy. So how do you deliver concrete, tangible impact — over the short-term, medium-term, and long-term? Innovation Leader and KPMG have collaborated to create the go-to resource on corporate innovation, based on detailed survey data and interviews with senior executives at Whirlpool, Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, Southern Company, General Motors, and more.

Audio & Video Resources

Lundbeck’s CEO on Developing Breakthrough Medications

How do CEOs determine focus areas and allocate budget to R&D initiatives? Deborah Dunsire, CEO of Lundbeck — a phamaceutical company specializing in neurology and psychology — explains.

How Herman Miller’s Chief Strategy Officer Sets Priorities

How does Herman Miller’s Chief Strategy Officer look for opportunities outside of the core? Megan Lyon shares best practices and tips for other innovators in charge of strategy.

What Startups Teach Corporates about Venture Failure

Failure rates are high for startups and new ventures launched by established corporations. But do these failures follow similar patterns and have comparable causes? What can startup founders and corporate innovators learn from each other about how to avoid new venture failure? Scott Kirsner, CEO of Innovation ...