Strategy & Governance

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How $1.5 Billion Materion Set Up Sustainability Governance and Reporting

At Enviva Biomass, Focusing on Four Goals to Achieve Net-Zero by 2030

The 9 Myths of Measuring Innovation

5 Ways to Strengthen Your Corporate Innovation Scaffolding

Exclusive Interview with NASCAR's Chief Innovation Officer

How $1.5 Billion Materion Set Up Sustainability Governance and Reporting
At Enviva Biomass, Focusing on Four Goals to Achieve Net-Zero by 2030
The 9 Myths of Measuring Innovation
5 Ways to Strengthen Your Corporate Innovation Scaffolding
Exclusive Interview with NASCAR's Chief Innovation Officer

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 report on "Innovation, Agility, and Openness," published in collaboration with KPMG, which includes qualitative data on openness to outside trends, agility, and investment in internal versus external innovation.

How to Use Myth Busting to Unlock Innovation and Growth

Most companies hold on to longstanding myths about their business and customers that constrain new ideas and experimentation — but just aren’t true anymore. Johnsonville LLC Director of Innovation Erik Falck shares four steps to get your colleagues questioning these myths and moving past them.

How Delta Airlines is Charting a Course to Net Zero Emissions

Delta’s Managing Director of Sustainability Amelia DeLuca sits down with Innovation Leader to discuss electric airplanes, carbon offsets, biofuels, and communicating sustainability objectives to employees and customers.

Meet the 2021 Impact Award Winners

Here’s the complete list of winners of our 2021 Impact Awards…

Why Well-Run Companies Continue to Fail

In the 24 years since Clay Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma was published, Christensen and many others uncovered a long list of reasons for why well-run companies can flounder. Despite these insights, leading companies now lose their leadership positions more quickly than ever before. The key question we must now answer is: “Why?”

Member Spotlight: Elaine Chen, Tufts University

Elaine Chen is the Cummings Family Professor of Practice and the Director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts University. We spoke with Chen as part of our IL Member Spotlight series, which profiles our members.

PepsiCo’s Demand Accelerator Takes Consumer Insights to Next Level

The Global SVP and Head of PepsioCo’s Demand Accelerator program discussed the efficacy of the Demand Accelerator, the specific data PepsiCo uses, consumer trends in the food and beverage industry, and more.

Research Report

The New Imperatives: Innovation, Agility & Openness

For some, the period between March 2020 and March 2021 may have been a time in which innovation accelerated. But for other companies, spending a year or more in “fast twitch” responsive mode, versus planning for future growth, may have created an innovation deficit. Get data about how 250+ of your peers are responding.

Audio & Video Resources

Ideas Aren’t Enough. What’s Your Innovation ROI?

In this Master Class replay, Suzan Briganti and Mary Ann Bianco of Swarm Vision discuss the importance of delivering measurable results through innovation and examine the mindsets of consistently successful innovators around the world.

Podcast: Who are the Unsung Persistent Innovators?

In this bonus episode of the Persistent Innovators miniseries, InnoLead covers six more persistent innovators in various industries – including food and beverage, manufacturing, and telecom.

Podcast: What Makes Novartis a Persistent Innovator?

In the fourth and final episode of the “Persistent Innovators” miniseries, Wade Roush dives into Novartis, the Switzerland-based healthcare company, to explore how long-term innovation can thrive in the world of pharmaceuticals.

Podcast: What Makes LEGO a Persistent Innovator?

Through the power of the simple, yet famous, LEGO brick, the LEGO company built an international phenomenon that includes theme parks, hundreds of storefronts, and a feature film franchise. However– the path to LEGO’s success wasn’t always so linear. In the latest installment of the “Persistent Innovators” miniseries, Wade Roush takes listeners through the innovative highs and plummeting lows of one of the most well-known toy companies in the world.

Video: How eSports and New Licensing Structures are Driving Disruption in Sports

Alex Slawsby of InnoLead and Jack Elkins of Sidekick Innovation discuss how “name image likeness” deals and eSports will impact the future of college and pro sports.

Video: How NFTs and Mobile-First Content are Changing the Sports World

Alex Slawsby of InnoLead and Jack Elkins of SideKick Innovation sit down to discuss how mobile-first content consumption, online betting, and non-fungible tokens are impacting the world of professional sports.

Podcast: What Makes Disney a Persistent Innovator?

With an innovative streaming project in Disney+, multiple award-winning film franchises, and some of the most well-known theme parks on the planet, The Walt Disney Co. is deeply ingrained in American culture – and deeply ingrained in the realm of innovation. How has Disney sustained long-term success, and become a model for other companies? Wade Roush tackles that question and more in the second episode of our Persistent Innovators miniseries.

Podcast: What Makes Apple a Persistent Innovator?

Apple has set the pace for the tech sector for decades, from the original Apple I personal computer to the modern-day iPhone. In the first episode of our “Persistent Innovators” podcast miniseries, Wade Roush takes a deep dive into Apple, the first company in the world to attain a $3 trillion market capitalization, to find out what has kept it on the cutting edge — despite occasional setbacks and leadership changes.

Sneak Preview of Our Next Podcast Season: The Persistent Innovators

How innovative companies stay that way is the focus of a special series coming soon from Innovation Answered. We’ll be looking at companies like LEGO, Apple, and Disney and asking what makes them so successful, decade after decade, and how they bounce back from challenges.