Strategy & Governance

Ten Best Practices to Empower Virtual Learning

Here’s Our List of 2020 Impact Award Winners

Why Did AI as a Capability Just Get More Important?

Sanofi Pasteur’s Chief Digital Officer on Making Virtual Collaboration Work

What is the Future of Sports Venues and Games?

Ten Best Practices to Empower Virtual Learning
Here’s Our List of 2020 Impact Award Winners
Why Did AI as a Capability Just Get More Important?
Sanofi Pasteur’s Chief Digital Officer on Making Virtual Collaboration Work
What is the Future of Sports Venues and Games?

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.

What is the Future of Theme Park Vacations?

Temperature screenings and face coverings are now part of the park experience. So what elements of the theme park vacation will remain forever changed? What will bounce back?

How is Sales Changing During COVID-19?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many business-to-business sales organizations are left with a pipeline of prospects that do not advance to later stages of the sales process…

Our August Coverage on Reimagining Innovation

We’ve gathered the best pieces of recent advice we’ve been given by innovators in our live show, report, and other online coverage.

How Can You Stay Close to Customers Remotely?

Eric Steege of Amazon Web Services shares how teams can stay close to their end users during a pandemic. Get his tips about leveraging learnings, customer insight channels, and more.

These are the Finalists for Innovation Leader’s 2020 Impact Awards

Our 2020 awards will be presented online this October, as part of the year’s biggest gathering of corporate innovators, Impact 2020. Here’s a look at which organizations made it to the finalists stage…

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.

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

Podcast: The Biggest Barriers to Innovation

David Lee shares how UPS has adapted to new demands in shipping and gives tips for innovators in 2020. He also reads his article “The Biggest Barriers to Innovation.”

What are the Biggest Barriers to Innovation?

This crisis is revealing aspects of our world that were broken, but hidden in the normal state of things. Now that the apple cart has been turned over, what can we see that is broken?

Kohl’s CTO on Curbside Pickup, Amazon Partnership & More

Paul Gaffney, the Chief Technology Officer of Kohl’s discussed the future of retail, curbside pickup, and working with Amazon.

Manulife/John Hancock on How COVID Accelerated Digitization

Amit Bhatia, Head of Manulife/John Hancock Innovation Labs, shares details about his team’s digitization, his current projects, and more.

Turning a Global Disruption into Opportunity at Fidelity & Citi Ventures

Mona Vernon and Alex Sion discuss challenges in the financial services in 2020 and how their teams have responded.

How CVS, Carhartt & Elsevier Pivoted to Face COVID-19

How have teams pivoted to face the challenges of 2020? Rhett Alden of Elsevier discusses launching a COVID-19 Resource Center in four weeks. Innovators from Carhartt and CVS share insights.

The Evolution of Online & On-Campus Education

Sian Beilock of Barnard College and Adam Medros of edX discuss how their organizations have pivoted to address the challenges that COVID-19 has created for higher education.

Discover, Access & Manage Ecosystem Relationships in a Low/No Touch World

How do you build ecosystems when travel and serendipity are limited for the foreseeable future? Watch this webcast to learn how to form partnerships during lockdown.

What Comes Back and When? Exploring Life After COVID-19

What’s changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? What’s likely to come back? And when? Innovation Leader’s ”What the Future Looks Like” report seeks to answer that question.

Pulling Back the Curtain on Disney’s Storied Imagineering Department

What can you learn from the creative cultures of Walt Disney Imagineering and Pixar? Leslie Iwerks, a documentary filmmaker, has made films about both organizations. She shares what she observed in this replay of “One Quick Thing.” Iwerks is joined on the show by two unnanounced guests: her father, Don Iwerks, who worked directly with Walt Disney, and a former Disney Imagineer, Josh Wachman.

How R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) describes any product that requires routine replacement — from personal care to food. No matter the item, companies in this space have to create new offerings that shoppers will buy again and again. To find out how big bets empower the process, we talked to Ranjani ...

The Secrets to Success at Intuit’s Lean Startup Program

In this episode of One Quick Thing, Bennett Blank shares how Intuit’s Lean Startup program generated $20 million in new revenue.

Podcast: Why Corporate Innovators are Like Pirates in the Navy

In this installment of Innovation Answered: Essentials, Tendayi Viki offers a look at his most recent book and discusses the importance of the “privateer” attitude.