Executive advisor. Strategy. Innovation

I facilitate a lot of strategy sessions and one thing that I observed is that in 99.9% of cases, strategic objectives are about growth. So, you would think that everyone is clear by now on all the different ways an organisation can unlock growth. Well, it’s not been my experience.

In this blogpost I want to highlight the key strategic questions and steps that will guide you towards creating a growth plan that makes growth objectives explicit, and more importantly clarifies where growth will come.

Anyone involved in corporate innovation will face the challenge of “selling innovation” to the executive team and/or the Board of Directors. The question of the return on investment (ROI) of innovation just keeps popping up. And still no one seems to have cracked it yet.

Indeed, predicting the ROI of innovation can feel like threading a needle in the dark. But while pinpoint precision is out of our grasp, could there be a way to calculate a rough order of magnitude ROI of innovation?

In this article I want to shed light on two essential frameworks and two critical data points that could transform your perspective on innovation ROI.

In this post I reflect on the most useful books - loosely connected to strategy and innovation - I read in 2023.

Below are the four books I referred the most to fellow practitioners, clients and friends.