Anchor Innovation to Corporate Strategy

  • Discover innovation management next practices
  • Explore the proven power of ecosystems & culture
  • Uncover winning investment strategies

Anchor innovation to corporate strategy


Deep Dive Package: What You Get

Download the package and you’ll get three valuable resources:

State of Corporate Innovation Report

Planbox’s popular report serves as the basis and focal point of this deep dive session.

Deep Dive Session Recording

Join Planbox CEO Ludwig Melik as he highlights and dissects the key takeaways of the report.

Deep Dive Session Presentation Slides

Great to have as you follow along, the slides hold insights not found in the original report.

About the Session

Give your organization an idea and it innovates for a day; give your organization an innovation program and it innovates for a lifetime! Of course, managing enterprise-wide innovation activities is a massive undertaking, but thanks to the generous participation of world-class innovators like you, Planbox put together a practical report on the State of Corporate Innovation that we can all use to better understand the structural approaches and strategies of a winning innovation program. Featuring rich insights and valuable data, the report serves as the basis for this deep dive session in which Planbox CEO Ludwig Melik will explore next practices you can use to anchor your innovation program to your organization’s corporate strategy in order to achieve sustainable and game-changing innovation.

Here’s what you will learn in this deep dive session:

  • What are the winning innovation program structures that practitioners currently use?
  • What are the trending strategic innovation drivers and goals?
  • How are peers establishing an influential innovation culture?
  • Who are the key stakeholders that enable a sustainable innovation ecosystem?
  • Where are investments going (H1, H2, or H3)?

About the Speaker

Ludwig MelikLudwig is the CEO of Planbox, an agile innovation management platform, and IdeaConnection, an open innovation expert solver network. With more than 20 years of experience in project and innovation portfolio management, Ludwig is an esteemed thought leader and domain expert in full lifecycle innovation portfolio management, emerging tech empowerment and ecosystem enablement, and throughout his tenure has helped multinational conglomerates across industries build a sustainable business strategy embedded in a culture of innovation. Prior to Planbox, Ludwig co-founded Tenrox, a bootstrapped startup that became a leader in project management software. He was also President of Upland Software, and led the company to complete six acquisitions and IPO on the Nasdaq within 30 months.

Ludwig is deeply engaged in and actively contributes to the global innovation community, acting as a member of the ISO 56000 Committee for Innovation Management, and working closely with leading analyst firms such as Gartner, Forrester and IDC to help shape the innovation standards of tomorrow. He co-authored the book “Optimizing Project and Service-Oriented Organizations” published by Wiley, and has an authoritative blog on LinkedIn in which he regularly explores innovation through a creative lens. You can also watch his unique perspective on the 7 Habits of Highly Innovative Organizations.