Who is this guide for

If you’re an innovation manager, or head of innovation – either at a global or local level – overseeing multiple innovation projects and managing a pipeline of innovation ideas, you can benefit from this guide.

Whether your organization is hunkering down in anticipation of a recession or building up its innovation muscle, managing your innovation portfolio to bolster your business goals will ensure you go beyond innovation theater, bring focus into your innovation efforts and maximize impact.

Read our guide and get the step-by-step process and tools that we have used with our clients to help them do exactly that.

Innovation Portfolio Management - flowchart

A handy tool to help you lay the groundwork for mapping your innovation portfolio for the first time, answer strategic questions on your innovation portfolio through insightful views and take informed decisions on rebalancing your portfolio, filling your pipeline, killing your projects or, in other words, ensuring you are getting the bang-for-your-innovation-buck, always.

Innovation Funnel

An alternative mapping of your innovation portfolio that will offer you significantly different insights that the Innovation portfolio map. Mapping projects based on their position in your innovation funnel offers additional insights on both resource allocation and need for interventions on certain innovation projects.

Innovation Project template

A tool to ‘process’ all the critical information on your innovation projects and ‘translate’ your innovation projects into mappable elements, or ‘bubbles’ for use on the Innovation portfolio map.

Innovation Portfolio Mapping

A single map that offers you multiple views to make informed decisions for your innovation portfolio, both at a strategic and tactical level.

From Company Vision to Actionable Projects

A single map that offers you multiple views to make informed decisions for your innovation portfolio, both at a strategic and tactical level.