Advisory · Organisation · Development
Innovation strategy & management
1. Brief service summary
Organize innovation directions and operations to connect ideas, resources and decisions. Structure priorities and initiative monitoring without confusing idea counts, experimentation and demonstrated value creation for the organization or clients.
2. Your needs
Teams propose initiatives but selection criteria vary and resources scatter. Projects continue without clear decisions and trial learning is poorly shared. You seek a framework to choose, experiment and review without burdening sponsors excessively.
3. Objectives of the engagement
Clarify desired innovation domains and decision responsibilities. Distinguish exploration, experimentation and confirmed development with stage-appropriate criteria. Prepare resource allocation, explicit assumptions and continuation or stopping decisions without presuming all ideas should become projects.
4. Indicative scope
Work may cover directions, initiative portfolios, governance and review rules. Expertise, user access and asset protection needs are identified. Criteria consider uncertainty, strategic consistency and resources; confidentiality and intellectual property obligations require appropriate examination before external sharing.
5. Possible delivery arrangements
Management interviews, portfolio workshops and pilot-cycle preparation may be combined. Decisions are documented with reasons and available information. Learning reviews may inform adjustments; abandoning an assumption is not automatically treated as poor team performance.
6. Possible deliverables
As agreed: an innovation direction note, portfolio map, stage-gate criteria and review calendar. A register may connect assumptions, trial results and expected decisions. Deliverables are indicative and do not automatically include experiments, tools or initiative financing.
7. Conditions and limitations
User-centred design falls under 18.05; corporate new activities under 18.11. This service structures innovation oversight. No patent, profitability or launch pace is guaranteed. Qualifications, mandates and rights require confirmation. Specialist research, product development and IP advice need separate scopes.