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Data, Templates, and Resource Library
Here you’ll find actual documents used by our members — including templates, spreadsheets, powerpoint slides, project documents, and more — from innovation executives at large companies like Coca-Cola, Target, Intel, Disney, Marriott, Nike, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and many others. Choose the category “Innovation Leader Resources” to see those created by Innovation Leader, in collaboration with former executives at Pfizer, Transamerica, Keurig Dr Pepper, VMware, BNY Mellon, and other companies. That category also includes data visualizations from many of our recent research reports.
Download resources related to:
- Culture, Personnel, and Org Structure
- Data Visualizations
- Events, Contests, and Competitions
- Frameworks & Models
- Innovation Leader Resources
- Job Descriptions
- Labs & Centers
- Metrics & Scorecards
- Processes & Methodologies
- Strategy Presentations
- Templates
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Scorecard: Create a Baseline Set of Innovation Metrics for Your OrgThis spreadsheet, created with input from a group of a dozen corporate innovators at a recent event, encourages you to focus in on the areas of measurement that matter most to your executive sponsors, and will help you assign a score to each of those areas. The spreadsheet also gives…- Data on Sustainability and ESG InitiativesHow are companies setting, communicating, and pursuing goals related to sustainability and sustainable development? Here’s survey data from mid-2022.
CULTURE, PERSONNEL, AND ORG STRUCTURE
- Options for Innovation Org Structure, Process, and MeasurementCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this PowerPoint deck lays out various options for setting up innovation organizations; defining roles; creating processes and pipelines for moving projects forward; and measuring outcomes.
- The Role of Design and UX on an Innovation TeamFive-page PowerPoint document created to help an innovation group define roles related to design, including UX (user experience), and assess the skill sets of individuals.
- Microsoft: DevDiv Culture, Values & BehaviorsA presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.
EVENTS, CONTESTS, AND COMPETITIONS
- Caliber Public Safety: Hackathon FlyerHackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.
- Boeing: Innovation Day Pitch DeckA slide deck template for participants in Boeing’s Innovation Day competition.
- Harris Computer: The Innovator’s VoiceA guide to Harris Computer’s “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.
FRAMEWORKS & MODELS
- Options for Innovation Org Structure, Process, and MeasurementCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this PowerPoint deck lays out various options for setting up innovation organizations; defining roles; creating processes and pipelines for moving projects forward; and measuring outcomes.
- SAIC: Accelerating ROI by De-Risking InvestmentsSingle PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.
- Matrix: Should You Watch, or Experiment With, an Emerging TechnologySubmitted anonymously in 2021, this slide looks at how one organization thinks about important and not (yet) important emerging technologies. How would you fill out this matrix for your organization today? Does everyone agree?
INNOVATION LEADER RESOURCES
- Scorecard: Create a Baseline Set of Innovation Metrics for Your OrgThis spreadsheet, created with input from a group of a dozen corporate innovators at a recent event, encourages you to focus in on the areas of measurement that matter most to your executive sponsors, and will help you assign a score to each of those areas. The spreadsheet also gives…
- Data on Sustainability and ESG InitiativesHow are companies setting, communicating, and pursuing goals related to sustainability and sustainable development? Here’s survey data from mid-2022.
- Scoping Opportunities, Fleshing Out Concepts, and Doing Customer ResearchCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this short PowerPoint deck collects worksheets, templates, and “cheat sheets” related to evaluating opportunities, fleshing out concepts, and conducting customer research.
JOB DESCRIPTIONS
- Citigroup: Startup Coach Job DescriptionJob description for a Singapore-based position at Citi Ventures — a D10X Startup Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence who will play “a critical role in the D10X program by helping the D10X startup teams keep their ‘eye on the prize’, providing an outside-in perspective, staying true to the D10X process and generally contributing to…
- Disney: Director of Technologies, Innovation EnablementJob description for a role at Disney that will “be responsible for establishing this new function through the development of strategies for the Emerging Technologies portfolio, and facilitating the delivery of innovative projects from ideation through implementation.”
- ECMC Group: Director of Innovation Job DescriptionA short description outlining the responsibilities of the director of innovation at ECMC Group, one of 35 Federal Family Education Loan Program Guarantors.
LABS & CENTERS
- PTC: Comic Book About Augmented RealityThis comic book lays out how augmented reality may be used in the workplace — both on tablets and on glasses. Shows how future visions can be communicated, outside the realm of PowerPoint.
- Gensler: Everything You’d Ever Want (or Never Want) in an Innovation HubAn innovation hub is a distinct environment strategically designed and actively nurtured to promote a way of working that is fundamentally different from an organization’s norm. (Some call them labs, centers, accelerators, or incubators.) But not all innovation hubs are created equal. Innovation Leader and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed…
- BNY Mellon: Global Innovation Centers OverviewShort overview of BNY Mellon’s network of innovation centers, their approach, and focus.
METRICS & SCORECARDS
- Scorecard: Create a Baseline Set of Innovation Metrics for Your OrgThis spreadsheet, created with input from a group of a dozen corporate innovators at a recent event, encourages you to focus in on the areas of measurement that matter most to your executive sponsors, and will help you assign a score to each of those areas. The spreadsheet also gives…
- Options for Innovation Org Structure, Process, and MeasurementCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this PowerPoint deck lays out various options for setting up innovation organizations; defining roles; creating processes and pipelines for moving projects forward; and measuring outcomes.
- Suggested Metrics for Your Innovation PortfolioCreated by Ravi Kanniganti of Target Corp. to accompany an article on metrics, this PDF lays out ways to track the health of an innovation portfolio; pilot tests run with startups; intrapreneurial projects; and more.
PROCESSES & METHODOLOGIES
- Idea Canvas for Evaluating and Testing New IdeasAdapted from the Business Model Canvas to better fit the needs of the corporate world, this Idea Canvas allows you to follow a high-level scientific process when evaluating ideas and then use the criteria from the Idea Canvas when testing or validating that idea. Developed by a Senior Director working in the…
- Clorox: How are You Investing in Open Innovation (Includes ‘100 Pennies’ Exercise)An exercise to do with colleagues: If you were given 100 pennies to invest in different open innovation partners, like small suppliers, universities, startups, etc., where are you investing resources and time today? Where is innovation actually coming from? What should you do differently?
- Overview of the Lean Startup Approach to InnovationDeck from 2019 providing a thorough overview of the lean startup methodology, along with many helpful templates. Used inside a manufacturing company to help guide the development of mobile apps, as well as hardware, IoT connected products, and research initiatives.
STRATEGY PRESENTATIONS
- Pitch Deck: Designing a Corporate Venturing/Startup Engagement StrategyCreated inside a publicly-traded insurance firm, this PowerPoint deck makes the case for committing resources to the startup ecosystem, venture funds, accelerators, and universities.
- Clearly Defining Your Innovation Strategy, Vision, and MissionThis short PowerPoint deck, developed inside a publicly-traded manufacturing company, was created to make sure that everyone is on the same page with the “What, Where, When, Why, How” of innovation. It includes explainer slides with annotations, followed by slides that can be easily adapted for use with your company.
- Medtronic: Meaningful Innovation BriefShort overview of how the medical device maker defines “meaningful innovation,” along with some examples of successful projects. Breaks innovation down into “therapy innovation,” “system innovation,” and “procedural innovation.”
TEMPLATES
- Scoping Opportunities, Fleshing Out Concepts, and Doing Customer ResearchCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this short PowerPoint deck collects worksheets, templates, and “cheat sheets” related to evaluating opportunities, fleshing out concepts, and conducting customer research.
- Idea Canvas for Evaluating and Testing New IdeasAdapted from the Business Model Canvas to better fit the needs of the corporate world, this Idea Canvas allows you to follow a high-level scientific process when evaluating ideas and then use the criteria from the Idea Canvas when testing or validating that idea. Developed by a Senior Director working in the…
- WD-40: Project Management GuideLots of definitions and templates related to the project management process at WD-40.
