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We surveyed hundreds & conducted deep dive interviews with six CIOs at global corporations who have successfully led large scale innovation efforts at Fortune 500s, and we captured their practices, frameworks, and success stories into this playbook.


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How 3 Leaders from 3 Different Industries Innovate
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...
How to Innovate Today While Planning for Tomorrow: What Every Enterprise CIO Must Know
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...
When CIOs Should Stop Planning and Start Innovating
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...
How to keep communicating, collaborating and innovating as we shift to a new remote working world
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...
The Secret to Getting the C-Suite On Board with an Innovation Strategy
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...
How Nestle Found Millions of Dollars in Savings Right Under Their Noses
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...
Innovation Leaders Need to Think Like Wilderness Guides. Here’s Why.
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...
Common Mistakes in Enterprise Innovation
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...
How Large Corporations Can Work With Startups to Accelerate Business
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...
Finding and Honing Opportunities Amidst Uncertainty: Four Insights from Today’s Tech Leaders
Today, in virtual boardrooms across the country, we’re seeing leaders facing unprecedented uncertainty. They’re having tough and exciting conversations with investors, employees, and customers around what the future holds, and helping their teams...
Corporations Can’t Thrive With Innovation Tactics Alone. They Need an Innovation Portfolio.
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...
9 Ways Extroverts Can Survive Self-Isolation
If you’re an extrovert who feeds on social interaction but suddenly finds yourself on a self-quarantine in the wake of COVID-19, it can feel, well, isolating. But more than simply being alone, you’ve also lost most of the activities that help you...
3 Emerging Technologies Helping Companies Comply with Evolving Privacy Legislation
This week we hosted our first Early Adopters Council briefing, focused on privacy and security and the emerging market trends and technologies in response to legislations such as CCPA, GDPR, New York Privacy Act, Canadian Privacy Act, and more. We...
The Innovator Series: Future of Work | Top 5 Insights from Eric Yuan, Founder & CEO of Zoom
The top 5 lessons Eric learned through COVID and during his nine years leading Zoom.
The Innovator Series: Future of Work | Panel Discussion
A thought-provoking conversation with today’s leaders exploring what work will look like tomorrow.
The Key to Conducting Successful Meetings According to Paul Swiencicki, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Swiftly
Recently, Paul Swiencicki visited Acceleprise’s accelerator in San Francisco to discuss “The Ins and Outs of Conducting Effective Meetings.” At first, that might seem simple — there are dozens of solid structures for running meetings, from getting...
Here are the Two Kinds of Innovation Enterprises Must Leverage
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...
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