We just finished an innovation metrics project with a consortium of three multinational companies and a mid-sized enterprise company. In this post I wanted to share an insight into the four key performance indicators (KPIs) we’ve started to put forward to track innovation projects.

Start With The Most Critical Hypotheses — To validate business ideas you need to perform many small experiments. At the centre of any one of these experiments should be a deep understanding of the most critical hypotheses and why you are testing them.

Co-authored by Benson Garner. Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs often start building early versions of their products and services way too soon. They don’t realize that the search phase of building a new product or business is optimized for learning. The goal early on is to create the most learning as quickly…

Thinkers50, the Oscars of management thinking, asked Yves and I to write a letter to CEOs who are faced with the challenge of creating new and transformative growth inside their companies. This is our message to them. Dear CEO, A recent McKinsey study shows that 80% of your CEO peers…

Transformative innovation explores new horizons and potentially disruptive business models, and requires an entrepreneur at its helm. Every large company must face the reality of continuous innovation and disruption, or risk becoming obsolete in the 21st century. …