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New research across 118 teams: 78% haven't rebuilt a single process around AI. Below — a venture studio, a 153,000-person manufacturer, and one person with no budget who didn't wait.
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Four innovation leaders. Four exits. One question.
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Like HP, Schneider Electric, Philips, and Kimberly-Clark discovered: the gap is usually between the parts, not in them.
Open innovation has a paradox hiding in plain sight: the outside search is often the easy part. What trips programs up is what they find — or fail to fix — on the inside first.
The conditions for transformational innovation can't exist inside a corporation. Here's what to do instead.
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When the CFO asks what it's all worth, do you have an answer?
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Smart people. Real effort. So why isn't more of it sticking?
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Sustainability challenges are often systemic. Incremental innovation can't solve them. What can?
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How TD Bank, Chick-fil-A, and Zurich Insurance identified what was slipping in their innovation programs— and the structural changes that brought them back
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The hardest decision in innovation management isn't which ideas to fund. It's which ones to stop.
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Most corporate innovation efforts stall not because the ideas are bad, but because the people behind them don't know how to navigate the system around them.
Here's how innovation teams are resetting the role they play to stay relevant and increase their impact.
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To unlock transformative growth, you must fundamentally change where the money comes from.
The future requires a bilingual innovator, one who speaks the language of design thinking and the language of the P&L — XV is the bridge between the two.
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The ultimate purpose of these metrics is not just reporting, but triggering smarter conversations.
Delivering prototypes isn't enough. To be successful, a venture lab needs the decision power to select which ideas to pursue.
