Day 1: From Innovation Ambition to Growth Opportunity

Defining Innovation Ambition

• Link innovation to growth goals
• Define strategic focus areas
• Set target ambition level
• Establish acceptable risk boundaries

Exploring Innovation Opportunities

• Identify unmet customer needs
• Scan emerging sector trends
• Locate meaningful market gaps
• Prioritize attractive growth opportunities

Applying Strategic Foresight

• Track long term trends
• Develop plausible future scenarios
• Impact of major shifts
• Convert signals into opportunities

Day 2: Choosing Bets Worth the Investment

Defining Innovation Domains

• Group opportunities into themes
• Attractiveness of each domain
• Check alignment with strategy
• Select priority innovation domains

Prioritizing Promising Ideas

• Define transparent evaluation criteria
• Compare value feasibility and risk
• Rank ideas by evidence
• Decide which ideas continue

Balancing Innovation Portfolios

• Balance different innovation horizons
• Distribute risk across investments
• Compare expected portfolio returns
• Review portfolio balance regularly

Day 3: Governing Experiments Before Funding Scale

Managing Experiment Portfolios

• Map all active experiments
• Track experiment maturity levels
• Compare results across experiments
• Make evidence based gate decisions

Allocating Innovation Funding

• Estimate funding needs by stage
• Match funding to maturity
• Allocate resources to priorities
• Adjust funding using results

Building Innovation Governance

• Clarify innovation decision rights
• Define stage review gates
• Set evidence requirements by stage
• Monitor portfolio level risks

Day 4: From Partnership to Scalable Experiment

Developing Innovation Partnerships

• Partners with complementary strengths
• Define shared partnership objectives
• Clarify partner roles and contributions
• Protect rights to joint outputs

Launching Controlled Pilots

• Formulate a testable hypothesis
• Set measurable pilot criteria
• Limit pilot scope and duration
• Capture measurable pilot results

Scaling Innovative Solutions

• Solution readiness for scaling
• Estimate resources required for scale
• Identify risks during expansion
• Plan a phased rollout

Day 5: Turning Innovation into Measurable Value

Capturing Innovation Value

• Value expected from innovation
• Financial and operational impact
• Compare results with baseline
• Use value to guide investment

Measuring Innovation Metrics

• Select meaningful innovation indicators
• Track conversion between stages
• Measure experiment cycle time
• Monitor adoption of innovations

Building Innovation Roadmaps

• Prioritize initiatives by strategic value
• Sequence initiatives across stages
• Match resources to major bets
• Update roadmap using learning

 

• Short decision lab testing Defining Innovation Ambition
• Applied case exposing practical challenges in Applying Strategic Foresight
• Practical lab creating a workplace tool for Allocating Innovation Funding
• Decision workshop using a realistic Building Innovation Roadmaps scenario