Innovation Consulting & Chief Innovation Officer Services: Disrupt, Don’t Get Disrupted
We deliver cutting-edge innovation consulting services helping organizations accelerate growth and navigate the complexities of today’s fast-evolving market.
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A company’s future relies on its ability to innovate effectively, continually, and at scale.
At The Innovation Mode, we believe innovation should be deeply integrated into the core operations of every business. Through strategic innovation consulting, we empower leaders to continually explore validated opportunities and take decisive action.
In today’s AI-powered innovation era, staying ahead requires more than just incremental improvements. Companies must invest in the ability to quickly discover, validate, and scale new opportunities. This approach, essential across all industries, demands an opportunity discovery function capable of identifying high-potential ideas in real 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.
Our approach combines deep industry insights with AI-powered innovation solutions, empowering your business to stay ahead of the curve. Whether you're looking to unlock new revenue streams, optimize processes, or develop breakthrough products, our team helps you turn challenges into transformative opportunities.
Our Innovation Consulting Services Help Corporations:
Measure Innovation Readiness: We assess your organization’s current innovation capabilities, identify gaps, and uncover blind spots that hinder growth. With our expert innovation consulting, we design tailored strategies to close these gaps and accelerate progress.
Design a Powerful Opportunity Discovery Function: In today’s AI-powered innovation landscape, spotting opportunities quickly is key to staying competitive. We help businesses create a streamlined ideation process, enabling them to discover, validate, and pursue business opportunities faster and more efficiently.
Optimize Organizational Structure for Innovation: We work with leadership to design an organizational model that fosters innovation at every level. By aligning teams and resources, we ensure that your company is structured for sustainable, scalable innovation.
Cultivate a Community of Innovators: Innovation thrives in a culture where creativity and collaboration are nurtured. We help corporations grow a network of inspired innovators, unlocking the collective potential of your workforce to drive AI-powered innovation forward.
Enhance Innovation Culture: We work with you to embed innovation deeply into your corporate culture. Through our strategic innovation consulting, we help build a workplace environment where creativity, experimentation, and continuous learning are the norm.
Develop a Long-term Innovation Transformation Program: Innovation isn’t a one-time initiative. We guide companies through the development of a comprehensive Innovation Transformation Program, designed to foster ongoing innovation and position your business as a market leader in the era of AI-powered innovation
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Corporate Innovation is Challenging (But Essential for Success)
True innovation demands a unique combination of forces that drive bold, high-potential solutions. Yet, in large corporate environments, innovation often faces significant barriers, including bureaucracy, internal politics, risk aversion, and a disconnect between teams and leadership.
Many great ideas are abandoned due to inertia or political roadblocks, and organizational complexity can stifle or even halt innovation efforts altogether. In such environments, employees may disengage from the innovation process, while leaders may shy away from the uncertainty and potential disruption that innovation inevitably brings.
So, what differentiates slow, bureaucratic companies from fast, agile, and innovative organizations? It’s a blend of critical factors: Leadership’s commitment to fostering innovation, a strong innovation culture, the use of well-defined methods and tools, and AI-powered innovation technology that facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration. These elements, combined with the right strategy, can transform a company’s ability to innovate.
At The Innovation Mode, we specialize in innovation consulting that helps corporations analyze these innovation ingredients within the context of their specific challenges. Our approach integrates these factors into a comprehensive innovation transformation program, empowering companies to overcome barriers and unlock their full innovation potential.
Essential Articles and Books on Innovation Consulting and AI-powered Innovation
What are the Typical Challenges of Corporate Innovation? Discover the common roadblocks that hinder innovation in corporate environments and how expert innovation consulting can help overcome them.
Which Digital Tools Can Accelerate Innovation? Learn about the latest AI-powered innovation tools and platforms designed to streamline ideation, collaboration, and execution in organizations of any size.
Why Do Companies Struggle to Adopt a Culture of Innovation? Explore the reasons why businesses fail to foster an innovation culture and how strategic innovation consulting can drive meaningful change.
What Are the Key Ingredients of a Great Innovation Culture? Uncover the essential elements that shape a thriving innovation culture, from leadership commitment to AI-powered innovation technologies.
What Are the Principles of a Successful Ideation Platform? Understand the principles behind effective ideation platforms that fuel innovation, enabling teams to generate and evaluate high-potential ideas.
Free eBook: 60 Leaders on Innovation. Download insights from global thought leaders on innovation consulting and how to drive AI-enabled transformation in your business.
New Book: Managing Ideas. Discover cutting-edge strategies to manage and scale the ideation process, empowering your organization to navigate the world of AI-powered innovation.
What Is the Definition of Innovation? Learn how innovation is defined across industries and the role of innovation consulting in helping businesses stay competitive in the era of AI.
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Do You Have a System for Innovation?
We do. Our innovation consulting services are designed to help companies innovate faster and more effectively. We build powerful innovation systems that include well-structured teams, optimized organizational designs, cutting-edge AI-powered innovation technologies, and proven processes and methods.
Is Your Company Truly Innovating?
We can help you find out. At The Innovation Mode, our innovation consulting services include a unique assessment model called the 'Seven Innovation States of a Company.' This framework evaluates your company’s innovation maturity based on key factors and data points. By measuring your business against this scale, we identify where you stand and outline the steps needed to advance. This is the critical first step on your journey toward an AI-powered innovation transformation.
Do You Have a Masterplan for Innovation?
We can help you create a great one. At The Innovation Mode, our innovation consulting services offer a comprehensive approach to help you design your Innovation Masterplan. This detailed guide provides actionable recommendations on what to do, when to do it, and why—covering everything from strategic investments in AI-powered innovation capabilities and cutting-edge technologies to the essential skills your organization needs to thrive. Our holistic view of innovation ensures your company is equipped for long-term success in a fast-changing landscape.
Is Your Organization's Design Optimized for Innovation?
Corporate innovation demands specialized roles, teams, structures, and communication models. Our innovation consulting services help you tackle tough questions like, “What team should lead innovation in my company?” or “Do we need a Chief Innovation Officer?” We also assess the missing skills and roles essential for driving AI-powered innovation within your organization. At The Innovation Mode, we work with you to shape the Dream Team for innovation, ensuring your company is equipped with the right talent and structure to foster continuous growth and breakthrough ideas.
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Innovation Toolkit 3.0: Empower Your Team with 10 Powerful Innovation Templates
Kickstart your innovation journey with this essential collection of AI-powered innovation templates, designed to help teams innovate faster without the need for complex systems or processes.
The Innovation Toolkit 3.0 includes templates for problem framing, idea description, brainstorming workshops, hackathons, idea prioritization, business experiment management, and more.
With these tools, you’ll empower your innovators to frame and solve the right problems, structure and evaluate their ideas, and rank them based on potential. Discover new opportunities, define clear product concepts, and run more effective corporate hackathons, helping judges assess projects objectively. The toolkit also fosters a culture of experimentation by enabling teams to define and manage meaningful business experiments.
Purchase the Innovation Toolkit 3.0, customize the templates, and start using them right away to drive innovation consulting success across your organization.
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60 Leaders on Innovation: Insights from Global Innovation Experts
Gain exclusive insights into corporate, social, and AI-powered innovation from Chief Innovation Officers, business leaders, product innovators, and technology experts.
"60 Leaders on Innovation" is a unique synthesis of perspectives from global leaders across industries, disciplines, and geographies, providing answers to the toughest innovation questions.
This collection offers a rich diversity of views—sometimes in alignment, sometimes in contrast—which showcases the dynamic nature of innovation itself. Learn how innovative companies thrive by adopting effective innovation strategies, how innovation consulting companies approach innovation and how experimentation blends seamlessly with agile product development.
Discover how C-Suite leaders play a pivotal role in driving innovation and explore ways that innovation can help tackle global challenges like climate change.
Get your copy today and learn from the very best in the world of innovation.
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The Innovation Mode: Transform Your Organization into an Innovation Powerhouse
Unlock the full potential of your business by embedding powerful innovation processes and behaviors into the very fabric of your company.
The Innovation Mode sets the goal of transforming your organization into a highly agile, responsive innovation machine. Through his extensive innovation consulting experience, the author of the book explains how to achieve this by adopting cutting-edge technologies, streamlined processes, and a culture that fosters rapid ideation, fast experimentation, concept validation, and product development.
Learn how to architect your company as a truly innovative organization, where culture is key. The book offers practical ‘hacks’ to make organizational structures less rigid and more adaptable. It also highlights the importance of building an active community of innovators who drive AI-powered innovation from within.
The Innovation Mode introduces an essential innovation framework, defining the key capabilities every company needs to succeed. This includes an ‘ideation channel’ to organize a repository of ideas, an ‘innovation intelligence’ service to stay attuned to market signals, and a comprehensive ‘measurement framework’ to track innovation progress. Information and knowledge-sharing components are also detailed to ensure continuous learning across the organization.
Written by George Krasadakis, a global innovation leader with over 20 years of experience in innovation consulting, technology, and product development across startups, consulting (Accenture’s Global Center for Innovation), technology firms (Microsoft), and pharma (GSK - Digital Innovation Hub).
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The Chief Innovation Officer's Blog: Expert Insights on Corporate Innovation and AI-powered Innovation
Explore insights from global Chief Innovation Officers, business leaders, and innovation experts. Our blog offers in-depth articles on corporate innovation, innovation consulting, and AI-powered innovation, providing actionable strategies to help your organization stay ahead of the curve. Discover how top companies drive innovation, overcome common challenges, and build a culture that supports continuous growth and breakthrough ideas.
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.