Resources for Chief Innovation Officers
We empower Chief Innovation Officers and Innovation Leaders to design powerful innovation programs and establish a streamlined opportunity discovery process.
C O R P O R A T E I N N O V A T I O N
A company’s future depends on its ability to innovate effectively and at scale
We believe that innovation should be embedded into the ‘operating system’ of every company. Leaders must continually assess validated innovation opportunities and take the right action.
In the era of Artificial Intelligence, innovation is becoming increasingly important: Companies must invest in their ability to conceive, validate and pursue new opportunities faster and at scale. Regardless of the industry, companies need to design an opportunity discovery function able to spot high-potential ideas at any time.
And this is where the Chief Innovation Officer comes into play: A critical role that orchestrates and continually improves the innovation function and empowers the company to spot opportunities, validate them and make the right calls for taking high-potential, validated products and services to the market.
We help corporations to:
Measure their innovation readiness, understand their gaps, spot their blind spots and design strategies to fix them.
Design a powerful opportunity discovery function - a streamlined ideation process to spot business opportunities faster.
Identify the optimal organization design for innovation
Grow a community of inspired innovators
Improve the Innovation Culture
Design a long-term Innovation Transformation Program
I N S I G H T S
Corporate innovation is tough
True innovation requires specific forces to push towards bold, novel, high-potential solutions.
Innovation in large corporate environments suffers from bureaucracy, politics, risk-avoidance, and a broader ‘disconnect’ from the leadership of the company. Great ideas can being abandoned due to inertia or political reasons. Organizational complexity and bureaucracy can slow or even block innovation efforts, In many cases, people do not engage with the innovation process or leaders avoid the uncertainty and the potential disruption that innovation tends to bring.
What makes the difference between slow, bureaucratic companies and fast, agile, innovative organizations? It is a combination of multiple factors including Leadership commitment to support innovation, the innovation culture, well-defined innovation methods and tools, the right technology that fosters knowledge and information exchange and more. These innovation ingredients need to be analyzed and handled in the context of each particular company and become part of a broader innovation transformation program.
Essential articles and books
What are the typical challenges of corporate innovation?
Which digital tools can accelerate Innovation?
Why companies fail to adopt a Culture of Innovation?
What are the ingredients of a great Innovation Culture?
What are the principles of a good ideation platform?
Free eBook: 60 Leaders on Innovation
New Book: Managing Ideas
What is the definition of innovation?
A D V I S O R Y
Do you have a system for innovation?
We do. We empower our clients innovate faster. We design powerful innovation teams, organization designs, technologies, processes and methods. We help Chief Innovation Officers or act as one, on demand.
Is your company innovating, really?
We can measure that. The Innovation Mode introduced ‘Seven Innovation States of a Company’ - a solid model able to position a company to a named innovation level depending on a number of factors and data points. Measuring your company against this scale is the very first step for your innovation transformation journey.
Do you have a Masterplan for Innovation?
We bring our holistic view of innovation to help you shape your Innovation Masterplan - a detailed guide with actionable recommendations on what to do when and why - for example, investments in innovation capabilities, technologies, and essential innovation skills that the organization needs to acquire.
Is you organization design good for innovation?
Corporate innovation requires special roles, teams, structures, services and communication models. We answer tough questions like ‘What team should be running innovation in my company?’ or ‘Do we need a Chief Innovation Officer?’ and ‘What are the missing skills and roles for innovation?’ We help you shape the Dream Team for innovation.
T O O L S
Innovation Toolkit 3.0
Spark innovation with 10 powerful innovation templates
You don’t need complex systems and sophisticated methods or processes to start innovating. Jumpstart using this unique collection of powerful innovation templates: problem framing, idea description, brainstorming workshop setup, hackathons, idea prioritization, business experiment management, and more.
Help your innovators frame and solve the right problems, structure their ideas, rank ideas based on their potential, spot opportunities, and define product concepts. Organize better corporate hackathons and help judges assess projects more objectively. Help your team adopt a culture of experimentation by defining meaningful business experiments.
Buy the innovation toolkit, adapt the forms, and use them right away.
B O O K S
60 Leaders on Innovation
Unique insights on corporate, social, and other aspects of innovation - from Chief Innovation Officers, Business, Product and Technology Leaders.
We envisioned ‘60 Leaders on Innovation’ as a synthesis of expert views against a fixed set of ‘tough’ innovation questions, answered not by a single ‘innovation authority’, but by active leaders across disciplines, industries, and geographies. Interestingly, these perspectives are not always in perfect agreement or alignment - and this is the beauty of this initiative.
Learn how innovative companies operate and how to adopt effective innovation strategies. Understand how innovation and experimentation methods blend with agile product development. Get insights from the experts on the role of the C-Suite for innovation. Discover ways that Innovation can help humanity solve big problems like climate change.
B O O K S
The Innovation Mode - How to Transform Your Organization into an Innovation Powerhouse
Learn how to embed powerful innovation processes and behaviors into the ‘operating system’ of your company.
The book sets the ‘Innovation Mode’ as the target and explains how to get there – by adopting the right technologies, processes, and cultural elements that help the organization become highly responsive to signals from the market – by means of ideation, fast experimentation, concept validation, and product development. It explains how to architect a company as a truly innovative and agile organization.
The Innovation Mode explains the importance of culture and recommends various ‘hacks’ to make the organizational structure less rigid and easier to navigate. It explains the importance of forming an ‘active community of innovators’.
The book further defines an essential ‘innovation framework’ – a set of key capabilities including an ‘ideation channel’ enabling companies to organize a corpus of ideas, an ‘innovation intelligence’ service enabling the company to ‘listen’ to the market, a ‘measurement framework’ for innovation along with components for ‘information and knowledge sharing.’
Written by George Krasadakis - inventor and global Innovation Leader with 20+ years of Innovation, Technology, and Product Development experience in Startups (Datamine), Consulting (Accenture’s Global Center for Innovation), Technology companies (Microsoft) and Pharma (GSK - Digital Innovation Hub).
A R T I C L E S
The Chief Innovation Officer’s Blog
Insights from global Chief Innovation Officers and Business Leaders on corporate innovation
In a world of Artificial Intelligence, the role of Chief Innovation Officer is becoming even more important. This link (between Artificial Intelligence and the importance of the CINO role) may not be that obvious - this article explains the thinking.