How innovative is your company?
L7 — the Innovation Mode — is where innovation runs always-on, as part of your operating system. We published the methodology that defines it. We built the agentic platform that runs it. We advise companies on how to reach it, fast.
Most companies sit between L2 and L4 — and rate themselves two levels higher.
Is innovation actually working in your company?
For most organisations, the honest answer is: not really. Programmes generate activity but few products. Hackathons run, labs launch, decks circulate — yet the pipeline of validated concepts reaching customers stays thin. The cause is rarely ambition, ideas, or budget. It's a missing architecture — no diagnostic to establish where the organisation stands, no sequenced plan that turns intent into in-market assets, no structured innovation methodology or process, and no performance measurement framework that separates real capability from theatre.
We can tell you where your company stands. And exactly what it takes to reach the Innovation Mode.
Six Innovation Deficits. We assess your organisation against them.
Innovation failure only looks unique from the inside. We've seen the patterns across industries — and codified them as the six Innovation Deficits, published in Innovation Mode 2.0. The diagnostic is ours. So is the cure.
Are your leaders equipped to drive innovation?
Most leaders want innovation to work — but lack a corporate innovation system to make it repeatable. No diagnostic, no shared playbook, no performance framework, no sequenced masterplan, no AI-native operating model. Three patterns dominate the Leadership Deficit: complacency from past success, willingness without innovation expertise, or expertise without C-suite backing. Equip leadership with the right system, and the other deficits become tractable.
Is your organisation designed for innovation — or against it?
Most company structures actively block innovation — fragmented business units, excessive hierarchy, vague accountability, broken knowledge transfer. R&D operates in isolation from product and customer-facing teams; critical market insights never reach the people who can act on them. Together, these patterns form the Organisational Design Deficit.
Are your innovation capabilities a working system — or fragments?
Determination isn't enough. Most organisations lack the tools, processes, and AI integration to deliver. Legacy infrastructure blocks frequent releases and in-product experimentation. Specific capabilities exist in isolation — with no orchestration layer tying them into a working innovation function. This is the Innovation Capabilities Deficit.
Is your innovation connected to real market signal?
When a company stops listening to the world outside its walls, innovation drifts. The pattern shows up as an inability to systematically scan markets, engage customers, process feedback, and run experiments. Innovation teams build sophisticated solutions to problems that don't exist — particularly when a technology function leads the agenda. This disconnection is the Real-World Connection Deficit.
Do you have the talent — and the culture — to innovate?
Innovation requires specialised skills — product design, rapid prototyping, user research, business experimentation — that don't exist or develop naturally. Combined with a culture that punishes risk-taking, organisations face gaps on both fronts: missing the people, missing the conditions. These gaps make up the Talent & Cultural Deficit.
Can you turn validated concepts into real products — fast enough?
What ultimately defines success: the ability to build, launch, and grow in-market assets and real products fast enough to reach product-market fit. Without venture-building capability, opportunities wait for implementation, get outsourced to vendors, or get assigned to teams without the capacity or skills to deliver. What's missing is the venture-building function itself — the Venture Building Deficit.
The advisory programmes diagnose which deficits are present and score them against the 7-level Innovation Maturity Index. But three of the six — capabilities, market connection, venture building — are infrastructure deficits. Infrastructure isn't advised into existence. It has to be built. We built it ↓
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Ainna is the agentic system specified in Innovation Mode 2.0 — the first published architecture for agentic innovation, running in production. Autonomous discovery surfaces opportunities. The Judge scores each one across viability dimensions; the Panel challenges it from the perspectives that matter. What survives arrives as a defensible case — board-ready decks and PRDs, in minutes, not months.
For organisations, Ainna deploys as internal innovation infrastructure: white-labelled, in your own cloud, carrying your innovation agenda. Explore Ainna Enterprise →
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True innovation goes beyond isolated programmes, technology labs, hackathons, fancy collaboration spaces, and bold innovation titles.
George Krasadakis · Innovation Mode 2.0 · Springer Nature, 2026 · Chapter 2
Two programmes. Eight weeks. Board-ready outcomes.
Both programmes run for 8 weeks across 50 hours of advisory and 32 structured sessions, remote or hybrid. Each is built on the published methodology of Innovation Mode 2.0 (Springer, 2026) and includes copies of the book for the leadership team.
Your Innovation Strategy in 8 Weeks.
Diagnostic, Innovation Playbook, and 24-month masterplan. Built for CINOs, CEOs, and senior leaders installing systematic innovation capability — not generic consulting frameworks.
Innovation Readiness Assessment against the 7-level Maturity Index
Innovation Performance Framework — KPIs that track real capability, not vanity metrics
Branded Innovation Playbook for your teams
24-month masterplan — 70+ sequenced interventions across the Six Phases
A board-ready transformation programme — covering innovation culture, organisational design, and the internal infrastructure to make innovation repeatable.
"While innovation success often results from collaborative efforts across an organisation, corporate innovation failure always reflects leadership's limitations or poor decisions."
— Innovation Mode 2.0, Chapter 2
→ Building a systematic innovation function from scratch
→ A new CINO needing diagnostic, playbook, and roadmap fast
→ Transforming culture, organisational design, and capability at once
Your AI Strategy in 8 Weeks.
Prioritised use case portfolio, AI product concepts, and a phased 12–24 month roadmap. For executive teams moving from AI conversations to AI decisions — built on the first published architecture for agentic innovation in a corporate context.
AI Readiness Assessment — data, talent, infrastructure, alignment
Prioritised use case portfolio scored on impact and feasibility
AI Product Concepts — specifications your teams can build, not slides to interpret
AI Innovation Masterplan — phased 12–24 month implementation roadmap
Executive AI Briefing — board-ready strategy for leadership alignment and investment
Strategic clarity on where AI creates competitive advantage — and an AI implementation roadmap to get there.
"Those companies that don't react fast are at risk of being displaced by AI-native competitors who can innovate faster."
— Innovation Mode 2.0, Preface
→ Moving AI initiatives from pilot to production
→ A CAIO or CTO building an AI use case portfolio
→ Facing pressure from AI-native competitors
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Planning a corporate hackathon? Do it right.
The Hackathon Toolkit packages the full design, scoring, and runtime framework from Innovation Mode 2.0 into a deployable system. Three tiers — from self-serve to fully bespoke.
Pack
The complete toolkit — design templates, scoring rubrics, evaluation models, runtime playbooks. For teams running the programme themselves.
Pack, Live
Toolkit plus four advisory phases — Discovery, Design, Calibration, Debrief. For teams that want senior judgement on the design.
Custom
A fully designed and run hackathon programme for enterprise-scale events. Facilitation, jury coordination, and post-programme realisation support.
A modern organisation's most vital innovation capability is a scalable opportunity discovery, validation, and realisation function — a system of cross-disciplinary teams powered by AI.
George Krasadakis · Innovation Mode 2.0 · Springer Nature, 2026
Innovation Mode 2.0
Designing Innovative Companies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
The executive operating manual for building AI-powered innovation functions. Opens with the diagnostic framework — the 6 Innovation Deficits — that explains why innovation programmes fail. Builds upward through organisational design, culture, AI-powered capabilities, and a sequenced masterplan of 70+ interventions mapped to the 7-level Innovation Maturity Index.
1. Innovation (Re) Defined
7. Opportunity Validation
2. The Innovative Organisation
8. Opportunity Realisation
3. People and Culture
9. Innovation Performance Measurement
4. Innovation Capabilities: Powered by AI
10. The Innovation Masterplan
5. Innovation Workshops & AI
11. Final Remarks
6. AI-Powered Opportunity Discovery
Springer Nature · 315 pages · 11 chapters · Hardcover and eBook
"There's a moment in every organisation's life where it hits a wall — not because it's run out of ideas, but because it's run out of clarity. That's what George Krasadakis offers in Innovation Mode 2.0. Not just a book but a blueprint for what it really takes to build innovative companies."
— Alex Adamopoulos · CEO, Emergn (from the Foreword)
"It is remarkable how the first edition correctly foresaw the pending rise of AI in our lives. The book provides an excellent overview about people, culture, and capabilities as the key pillars of innovation and practical ways to discover, validate, and realise opportunities."
— Dr. Mathew Hughes · Professor of Innovation, University of Leicester (from the Foreword)
"Very practical and inspirational for executives, leaders, middle-level managers, and teams willing to transform their vision to actual execution. Must-read and must-use."
— Achilleas Stergioulis · Director, INTRASOFT International
"A practical guide for how to tap your organisation's creative energy, and transform it into an innovation-driven pace-setter."
— Bart Manning · Head of Sales & BD, Unity
"An inspiring and must-read for every organisation that doesn't wish to sit on the sidelines while someone else steals their share of the market."
— Sue McGill · SVP, ATB Ventures
"A must-read for innovation managers, top-level corporate executives, and entrepreneurs!"
— A. Tzoumas · CTO, SciFY.org
What your teams can deploy today.
Frameworks from the book. Templates used by innovation teams globally. Two free ebooks of practitioner perspectives on innovation and AI.
Innovation Toolkit 4.0
Eight customisable templates used by innovation teams globally — for problem framing, ideation, idea assessment, hackathons, and product concepts. Editable MS Word and Keynote.
Innovation Maturity Index
The 7-level diagnostic that scores where your organisation stands today — and where the architecture would take it. Used to anchor every advisory engagement.
Explore the framework → FrameworkCorporate Hackathon Hub
The full corporate hackathon framework — five-phase lifecycle, ten design parameters, four evaluation models, scoring rubrics, and runtime playbooks from the book.
Read the framework → ReferenceInnovation Dictionary
61 terms defined — from Innovation Deficit to Federated Innovation. The shared vocabulary that keeps cross-functional teams aligned.
Open the dictionary →
60 Leaders on Innovation
22 questions answered by 60 senior executives on how innovation actually works inside global enterprises.
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60 Leaders on AI
60 thought leaders on AI's transformative impact across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and beyond.
Download free ebook →Innovation Mode actively supports teaching and research.
Professors, researchers, and student programme leaders work at the source of the next generation of innovators. We make our published frameworks, toolkits, and reference materials available on special terms when the use is educational.
- Innovation Mode 2.0 for MBA, executive education, and innovation management courses
- The Innovation Toolkit and supporting templates for student programmes
- Ainna access for research and student venture work, by arrangement
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George Krasadakis
Founder of Innovation Mode Limited, the company behind Ainna.ai. Author of Innovation Mode 2.0 (Springer Nature, 2026). Sole inventor of 24+ AI/ML patents. 25+ years across industries and markets as a cross-disciplinary practitioner, with senior roles ranging from deep engineering and data modelling, through product architecture and product leadership, to innovation programme architecture. Founder of five technology ventures. MSc Computational Statistics, University of Bath. 600+ Google Scholar citations.