Pivoting Innovation Programs

How TD Bank, Chick-fil-A, and Zurich Insurance identified what was slipping in their innovation programs— and the structural changes that brought them back

Killing Zombies: How to Stop the Projects That Are Starving Your Best Bets

The hardest decision in innovation management isn't which ideas to fund. It's which ones to stop.

After the Yes: The Intrapreneur's Guide to Turning Sponsorship Into Results

Most corporate innovation efforts stall not because the ideas are bad, but because the people behind them don't know how to navigate the system around them.

Delivering Growth, Coaching Execs: New Roles For Innovation

Here's how innovation teams are resetting the role they play to stay relevant and increase their impact.

How do we shift the culture/mindset across the organization, in order to act faster?

How do we leverage AI for innovation throughout the end-to-end process?

What are key low-budget, high-impact innovation instruments and approaches?

How to gain and keep leadership support and strategic alignment?

Innovation Funding: Why CapEx Beats OpEx

To unlock transformative growth, you must fundamentally change where the money comes from.

Expected Value (XV): The Financial Metric Innovation Teams Actually Need

The future requires a bilingual innovator, one who speaks the language of design thinking and the language of the P&L — XV is the bridge between the two.

The Minimum Viable 12 Metrics: Connecting Strategy, Culture and the CFO

The ultimate purpose of these metrics is not just reporting, but triggering smarter conversations.

Building Future Relevance: How Venture Labs Challenge the Companies That Fund Them

Delivering prototypes isn't enough. To be successful, a venture lab needs the decision power to select which ideas to pursue.

The Venture Clienting Puzzle: Solving for Culture, Strategy, and Scale

The process looks linear on a slide. In practice, it is a series of checkpoints where organizations either catch the problems early or spend months wondering why nothing scaled.

The 7.5x Leverage Effect: How External Capital Multiplies Corporate R&D

Tapping into the best minds and biggest budgets outside your four walls to solve internal problems.

The Synergies That Turn Innovation Programs into Growth Factories

Most innovation programs fail because they pull one lever in isolation.

Using Jobs to Be Done to Build What Matters

Because the cost of building has plummeted, the cost of building the wrong thing has become the primary risk.

The Innovator's Dilemma for 2026: Two Survival Strategies

Macroeconomic volatility, stock market expectations, internal pressure to deliver ROI: the magnifying glass is set on innovation in 2026. But there's not just one way to respond.

Breaking the Innovation Theatre Cycle

Understanding why innovation theatre happens allows you to build AI-powered systems and workflows that enforce responsible innovation by design.

Escaping Pilot Purgatory: Why 90% of AI Projects Never Reach Production

Connect AI to core business goals, prioritize based on value and speed, and build a rolling 18-month roadmap that balances long-term vision with agility in a rapidly changing landscape.

How AI Personas Achieve 8x Faster Innovation Cycles

The solution isn't to sprinkle AI on top of existing problems, but redesigning the innovation architecture.

Stop Brainstorming: Shortcutting Ideation with AI to Move Faster into Real Market Testing

AI lets us skip theoretical opportunity sizing for tangible concepts ready for real-world proof.

Using AI to Govern Innovation: Smarter Forecasting, Better Decisions

Estimates that used to take hours or days can now be generated in as little as five minutes—a significant boost to decision-making speed.

AI in Innovation: Flying the Plane While Building the Runway

Transforming legacy systems takes time, yet the market will not wait.

Innovation Leadership: Mastering the Periscope, the Stethoscope, and the Horoscope

Balancing long-term vision with short-term execution.

Reinventing the Innovation Function For the Realities of 2026

The innovation functions that survive 2026 will look fundamentally different from those designed in the 1990’s.