Innovation Portfolio

Invest only in the most impactful and scalable solutions, balancing short-term gains with long-term strategic growth.

Innovation Portfolio

An innovation portfolio helps to strategically guide, diversify, measure, and act upon a portfolio of potential new businesses.

Diversify your innovation efforts today.

Let’s talk

Organizations that neglect innovation portfolio management risk disorganization, resource misallocation, and poor strategic alignment.

Over time, this can hinder opportunities, increase risks, and reduce the competitive edge needed for growth.

Are innovation investments wasted on low-impact projects?

Create an innovation funnel to incrementally invest only in teams that are strategically aligned and backed with evidence.

Are innovation efforts fragmented and disconnected from long-term business goals?

Provide a portfolio guidance to make clear what type of innovation and improvements are in or out.

Are most innovation initiatives failing to deliver expected value, leaving the organization at risk of failure?

Diversify investments across different types of innovation to balance risk with potential returns.

Is your organization struggling to identify sustaining and scalable initiatives, weakening overall innovation performance?

Enable data-driven decisions by incorporating innovation metrics and clear success criteria.

Are inefficiencies, delays, and process bottlenecks disrupting your daily operations?

Implement industry-leading processes and clear dashboards to reduce chaos by providing a transparent view of ongoing projects, streamlining communication, and eliminating bottlenecks.

Create a Healthy, Performant Innovation Portfolio.

A successfully managed innovation portfolio typically contains the ingredients listed below.

Innovation Funnel

Provides focus and ensures that only the most viable and high-potential projects move forward.

Diversified Innovation Portfolio

Bets are spread to minimizes innovation risk based on type of innovation, short-term gains vs. long-term growth, and maturity or stage of exploration.

Evidence based Metered Funding

Provides funds incrementally based on proven progress and established performance benchmarks to reduce risk.

Dedicated Innovation Board

Ensures that innovation remains a core, managed, and high-impact part of the business.

Innovation Metrics

Critical data points to measure the performance of innovation efforts at the initiative level.

Clear Success Criteria

Innovation projects are evaluated using clearly defined success criteria based on evidence and innovation metrics.

Portfolio Guidance

Provides a clear context to select, prioritize, and manage innovation projects so that they align with an organization’s overall objectives.

Portfolio Actions

Strategic decisions and interventions are made regularly to manage and optimize an organization’s portfolio of projects and initiatives.

Innovation Programs

Selected initiatives are supported through dedicated programs designed to test ideas (eg, Discovery, Validation and Acceleration).

Portfolio Metrics

Selected Portfolio KPIs that measure the health and performance of the innovation efforts at portfolio level to support decision-making and portfolio actions.

Institutionalized
Growth Budget

Dedicates a pool of resources embedded in an organization’s financial planning to consistently fund breakthrough projects and market opportunities.

Leadership Training

Equips leaders with the skills and mindset to drive innovation, overcome obstacles, and push organizations forward.

Defined Innovation Toolbox

Radically facilitates the search for new growth engines by shaping, testing, and managing ideas in an organization.

Start investing only in the most successful initiatives today.

Let’s talk

These are the questions I get asked a lot.

Start balancing short-term gains with long-term strategic growth today.

Let’s talk

Let’s talk.

Whether you are looking for more information or you are ready to start a project, I am here to help.

First Name
Last Name
Email
Message
The form has been submitted successfully!
There has been some error while submitting the form. Please verify all form fields again.
Andreas Edler - Strategy and Innovation Coach
Scroll to Top