the riddleWhy do good internal ideas stall somewhere between the demo day and the budget meeting?
Build the environment where employees can innovate, and help the promising projects make it through.
Two kinds of work, connected. Intrapreneurship consulting designs the road. Incubation and venture support helps individual teams travel it.
for Innovation leaders, program owners, HR and transformation leaders, and internal teams with a promising project
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buzzword: innovation theaterplain words: a sponsor decision on a date everyone knows
the road
From an idea to organizational impact
Every internal initiative travels the same road. Most organizations haven't paved it yet.
- 1/5Idea
- 2/5Experiment
- 3/5Evidence
- 4/5Sponsor
- 5/5Scale
for program owners
Design the environment around internal innovators.
- Designing or improving intrapreneurship programs
- Intake, selection, support, and what happens after the demo day.
- Building pathways from idea to evidence and sponsorship
- Clear stages, clear criteria, clear decisions.
- Improving internal innovation governance
- Who decides, on what evidence, and how often.
- Creating executive sponsorship mechanisms
- So promising work meets the people who can fund and protect it.
- Supporting innovation leaders and program owners
- The people running the system, not only the people in it.
- Connecting employee innovation to business priorities
- Innovation that the business recognizes as its own.
A promising idea is not yet an organizational outcome.
for project teams
Help a promising project move beyond experimentation.
- Sharpening the problem and value proposition
- What changes for whom, and why it matters to the business.
- Identifying users, sponsors, and stakeholders
- Who has to say yes, and who has to not say no.
- Defining evidence and validation plans
- The smallest test that would change a sponsor's mind.
- Connecting the project to business outcomes
- Impact framed in the organization's own measures.
- Preparing sponsor pitches and decision materials
- A decision an executive can make in one meeting.
- Navigating internal barriers
- Procurement, security, legal, and the politics nobody writes down.
- Building a practical path toward adoption and scale
- From the team that built it to an organization that uses it.
formats
How it works
- Program design engagement
- Assess, design, or redesign an intrapreneurship or incubation program with its owners.
- Cohort support
- Work alongside a cohort of internal teams through a defined stage of the road.
- Project acceleration
- Focused sessions with one team preparing for a sponsor decision.
- Sponsor and leader sessions
- Help the executives who fund and judge internal innovation do it well.
how to begin
Tell Ady where the road breaks.
Too few ideas, too many pilots, or promising projects that never reach a decision? The answer decides whether the work starts with the system or with a team.