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Despite having the title SVP of Innovation Design at State Compensation Insurance Fund, Sean Adams sees himself more like a matchmaker. While other enterprise innovation teams might acquire startups, develop in-house spin-off companies, or become...

Corporations have a lot of moving parts, making innovation projects difficult to get off the ground. As a result, corporate innovation leaders spend a lot of time navigating the enterprise playing field, balancing the scale of the business with the...

For Tektronix innovation director Sam Strickling, the ability to fail fast is key to corporate innovation. Here's how he does it. The startup world usually embraces the concept of “fail fast” to learn quickly. Traditional enterprises, on the other...

Measuring corporate innovation is an incredibly difficult task. It’s a delicate balance of fitting into corporate nomenclature while also ensuring there’s enough room to navigate the often imperfect process of innovation. If you don’t play the...

At the enterprise level, definitions of innovation change depending on company goals and the challenges of each industry. While conducting research for the Acceleprise Enterprise Innovation Playbook with over 100 innovation leaders, we uncovered...

The Fortune 500 might seem like a single block of companies, but the reality is each company faces unique challenges, opportunities, and threats. One common thread, though, is that every Fortune 500 innovator has to think about keeping operations...

The most challenging step in any innovation project is figuring out when you’re ready to stop planning and start taking action. Jump in too soon and the whole project could face an uphill battle with a rocky start. Wait too long and analysis...

By: Whitney Sales, General Partner & Olivia O’Sullivan, Director of Corporate Innovation This article originally appeared in CIO Review Magazine Seven months ago, you would have been hard pressed to find an enterprise willing to seriously...

As innovation leaders, it can be frustrating to explain your big vision only to be met with blank or skeptical stares from other c-suite executives. It’s absolutely critical to get stakeholders on board, since their support will be the difference...

When it comes to Enterprise Innovation, a lot of conversations hinge on “sexy” topics like partnering with startups and building new business lines. Other conversations focus on solving for external threats and opportunities. While both of these...

When you hear the title “Chief Innovation Officer,” it’s easy to imagine a c-suite executive just like any other. In many ways that’s a fair image, but the role of a CIO is more like a wilderness guide than a corporate leader because the process of...

Innovation leaders are usually action-oriented people, which is both a necessity for the job and a potential issue. In the research process for our enterprise innovation playbook Stories from the Trenches: Sustainable Innovation in the Corporate...

Until recently, corporate innovation was just a synonym for research and development. Large, century-old corporations would invest in finding incremental improvements to their products, generally assured in their dominance and market share. That’s...

As nimble startups quickly build new technologies, larger corporations with bureaucracies and thousands of employees could end up left in the dust. The solution to this challenge is innovation, though the term has multiple meanings and can feel...

 The corporate world is at a precipice. For the first time in modern history, simply having a ton of money is not a guarantee of position. Now, a kid with a computer and some basic coding (or even ‘no-code’) skills can launch a credible business...