Accelerate the Path From Risk to Upside
Vet, Value and Validate your Opportunities with
Innovation Navigator®.
Decision Intelligence for the “Messy Middle” of Innovation
Incubation—that “messy middle” part of the innovation process—is fraught with challenges. The goals of driving upside, de-risking, and creating strategic alignment are challenged by small thinking, misplaced priorities, and insufficient stakeholder engagement. For most organizations, this leads to an inconsistent process at best—and an ineffective one at worst.
Upgrade Your Incubation Process
Most innovation tools simply track Incubation projects—without supporting the hard work of business case development, experiment-driven learning, and uncertainty reduction. Innovation Navigator gives you a proven methodology, practical tools, and meaningful outputs to support confident, objective decisions at both the project and portfolio level.
Vet
- Identify factors that could influence project success
- Engage stakeholders
- Prioritize learning on high-value, unfamiliar assumptions
Build Buy-in
Create a broad-based understanding of what must be true for success.
Value
- Link key issues to value drivers and assumptions
- Understand which assumptions most drive upside and downside
- Build business case and uncertainty analysis
Maximize the Potential
Quantify uncertainty, focus learning, and build confidence in the business case.
Validate
- Design and manage experiments to address uncertainty
- Gather evidence against proof points and update assumptions
- Adjust your learning plan as priorities evolve
Derisk Effectively
Plan for the unexpected to build momentum for funding.
Innovation Navigator:
Your missing ingredient to breakthrough results
“Innovation Navigator provided discipline in the messy space of incubation, and helped drive several projects forward to achieve breakthrough results.”
Nazeer Bhore
ExxonMobil
“Innovation Navigator is an essential tool in navigating the complexities of innovation management. It aligns projects with executive expectations through robust data-driven insights.”
Ralph Morales III
Oura
“iNav helped us move from thinking about what we know to thinking about the unexpected. We made sure we were addressing the most critical issues, not just the comfortable ones.”
Udi Chatow
Applied Materials
See Innovation Navigator’s Recipe for Success
See how the Discovery Grid helps you:
- Identify issues that will influence success for your project;
- Get stakeholders aligned on the issues that matter; and
- Focus the innovation team on those issues most likely to create surprise—and upside potential—in the business case.
See how the Tornado Diagram provides the innovation team with:
- A current-state estimation of the value of the project;
- A view of the most critical unresolved business case factors and their assumption ranges; and
- A way of communicating a project’s upside potential to the CFO to unlock funding for future experiments.
See how a Learning Plan provides a road map for incubation by:
- Capturing and managing key experiments linked to resolving uncertainty in the business case;
- Fostering the collection of valuable evidence against critical proof points; and
- Preparing for funding decisions.
See how the De-Risk Dashboard allows innovation leaders to:
- Create an apples-to-apples comparison of incubation projects;
- Gain a multi-dimensional view of the portfolio that incorporates estimated value and current risk; and
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Prioritize resource allocation to high-value experiments across the portfolio instead of placing project-level bets.