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And if you haven’t yet, the survey should only take about 10 minutes to complete.

The results from this survey will provide you and your colleagues in All Things Innovation community with much needed benchmarking information on mindset and focus trends as well as budget and technology spend.

We’ll analyze the responses and output results into the Spend & Trends Report.

Our goal is to provide resources for innovation disciplinarians to better collaborate with the rest of the organization.

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We’ll send you the Report as soon as it’s released. Your responses will be kept completely confidential. We appreciate your time—this research helps our entire industry and we can’t do it without you. Thank you for helping us advance the innovation discipline.

THANK YOU TO OUR SURVEY COMMITTEE

Gail Martino, Senior Program Manager, Unilever

Harsh Wardhan, Innovation Program Lead, Google

Michele Sandoval, Director of Innovation, E&J Gallo Winery

Oscar Barranco Liébana, Innovation Director, FIFA World Cup 2022

Zeinab Ali, Vice President R&D Transformation, Former Campbell

Mike Hatrick, Group Director IP Strategy & Portfolio, Trucks, Tech, Volvo Group Strategy, IP

Oksana Sobol, Senior Director, Insights Lead, The Clorox Company

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    Seth Adler heads up All Things Insights & All Things Innovation. He has spent his career bringing people together around content. He has a dynamic background producing events, podcasts, video, and the written word.

 
 

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