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Boost Capital Expenditure ROI

November 05, 2019
How confident are you when making capital expenditure (CapEx) decisions? Are the right CapEx projects being prioritized? Read More

The Alphabet Soup of Professional Organizations and Conferences

October 29, 2019
There are a lot of organizations out there that help build and strengthen relationships between universities and corporations, bridging the gap between theory and application. These relationships are critical for both parties. For corporate innovation teams, establishing academic partnerships is a... Read More

What are OKRs and how do they work?

October 25, 2019
We take a brief look at 'the simple idea that drives 10x growth', which emerged from Intel in the 1950s and famously inspired the founders of a little startup called Google. Read More

Pulse of Innovation: Managing Innovation Across Multiple Sites

October 15, 2019
Every so often we ask our community to sound off on popular topics in innovation and share their best tips, tricks, and advice in hopes that their answers may inspire others in the field. We’ve gathered these insights by email, over phone calls, at events and roundtables, and catching up with... Read More

Q&A: Innovation and Portfolio Management at The J.M. Smucker Company

October 04, 2019
Recently Laura Drake – Portfolio Commercialization Analyst at The J.M. Smucker Company – gave a run-down of Smucker's journey to implementing an improved innovation and portfolio management process to drive more effective decision-making and produce sustainable value. Read More

How to measure end-to-end portfolio performance

September 27, 2019
In this fourth and final part in this series of guest posts, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts, focuses on end-to-end portfolio management, concluding that – from ideas to outcomes – it’s all one portfolio. Read More

How to generate ideas – tools and techniques for ideation

September 23, 2019
You'll want to capture all the ideas that emerge from your organisation, as and when they arise, but here are nine ways to give the process a helping hand. Read More

“Innovation Ops” had been an oxymoron. Now it’s a best practice.

September 18, 2019
Even just a few years ago, conventional wisdom held that “innovation” and “operations” didn’t belong in the same sentence. Performance targets ruin the creative impulse. Science needs space, time, and freedom to flourish. Innovation can never be bottled into an efficient, machine-like operation. Read More

Dynamic investment, flexible delivery

September 17, 2019
In this third instalment of his series of opinion pieces, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts suggests that flexibility and speed-to-outcomes can drive momentum and help make better choices. Read More

What makes a good hypothesis?

September 05, 2019
A carefully chosen and well-written hypothesis makes it easy to design an experiment to test and learn from. So here are six steps to follow when crafting your prediction. Read More

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