Answers Are Cheap Now. Is Your Innovation Team Asking the Right Questions?
Paqui Lizana scanned the innovation roadmaps of Europe's 20 most innovative companies. Every roadmap pointed inward. Here are the three questions she says are missing.
What Innovation Teams Should Focus On Before the Year Ends
Clarify what's out of scope, design the portfolio first, make foresight a habit, roll out AI around a real job, and replace the big pitch with small commitments.
Own the P&L (Or Get Shut Down When the CEO Changes)
Sokwoo Rhee has run LG Nova for five years — longer than most corporate innovation units survive. His explanation isn't culture or timing. It's math: “The only thing that doesn't change, regardless who your leader is, is P&L.”
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.
Technology Is Table Stakes: Why Culture Is Your Only Competitive Edge
To stay ahead of the curve, redirect to the human element: think how teams work together, how they process change, and how they turn uncertainty into fuel for growth.
Smart Risk-Taking: Why Fuzzy Goals (and Politics) Are Killing Your Ideas
The work of innovation is not just about coming up with ideas, but about fixing the boardroom dynamics that could kill it. We must prepare to do the messy, human work of culture change.
Stop Begging for Resources (and Start Building a Movement )
When people stop viewing innovation as a tax they have to pay, or a compliance box they have to check, and start viewing it as a vehicle for their own success, you have won.
Eliminate Ambiguity, Correct Asymmetry and Promote Accountability With An Innovation Mandate
An Innovation Mandate serves as a contract between the senior management (the organizational level) and the professionals conducting the work (the portfolio and project levels).
