A high-impact approach to catalyze innovation breakthroughs
Innovation Navigator® helps you:
- Work on what matters: Identify influential issues, assess speculation and impact, prioritize
- Gain funding approval from executives: Build a business case, quantify uncertainty, unlock upside potential
- De-risk projects: Manage experiments, gather evidence, inform pivotal decisions
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Improve your decision-making for incubation projects
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Incubation isn’t the time
to play it safe.
It’s the time to think expansively and embrace uncertainty in pursuit of innovation that will truly move the needle for your organization.
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Keep your projects on an incubation success path
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Win over skeptics
- Identify issues that will influence project success
- Get focused on the ones that matter most
- Gain alignment with project stakeholders to build momentum and support
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Show them the money
- Build a business case with ranges of assumptions
- Show how resolution of project uncertainties can drive significant upside potential
- Speak the language of finance to build confidence in your business case or prepare for a pivot
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Get to a “go” decision
- Define and manage experiments to address uncertainties
- Gather the most valuable evidence against critical proof points
- Prepare for punt, pivot, or persevere funding decisions
See Innovation Navigator in action
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 the Learning Plan builds 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.
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What’s next on your Innovation Navigator journey?
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- See full functionality of the software
- Ask questions, get answers
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