Advisory · Organisation · Development
Outsourced innovation & entrepreneurship leadership / fractional chief innovation officer
1. Brief service summary
Provide recurring oversight support for innovation and entrepreneurial initiatives within a defined mandate. Organize priorities, reviews and trade-offs without automatically conferring executive status, investment powers or team management responsibility.
2. Your needs
Initiatives lack coordination continuity. Sponsors await decisions and managers lack consolidation time. You seek support to clarify priorities, track assumptions and prepare choices while controlling resources and commitments.
3. Objectives of the engagement
Establish a management rhythm and clarify decisions expected from authorized persons. Connect initiatives, capabilities and information, then flag dependencies or inconsistencies. Organize collective learning and handover without replacing professional expertise or project-specific approvals.
4. Indicative scope
Work may include committee preparation, portfolio monitoring and agreed work coordination. The mandate specifies resources, access and escalation. Signing, expenditure and representation powers are separate; the title grants no right to disclose ideas, file IP titles or conclude partnerships.
5. Possible delivery arrangements
Periodic meetings, workshops and file reviews may support managers. Availability, intervention limits and replacement arrangements are agreed. Third-party exchanges require authorization; recommendations remain labelled until adoption and open decisions are retained for internal takeover.
6. Possible deliverables
As agreed: work programme, review calendar, decision files and progress summaries. Handover may specify assumptions, owners and pending approvals. Deliverables imply neither permanent presence, unlimited availability nor automatic initiative development or commercialization.
7. Conditions and limitations
Innovation strategy falls under 18.04; new activities under 18.11. This is recurring coordination. No financing, launch or innovation result is guaranteed. Qualifications, independence, confidentiality and conflicts require checks. Support, any retainer, specialist services, tools and SaaS remain distinct economic commitments.