We take a brief look at 'the simple idea that drives 10x growth', which emerged from Intel in the 1950s and famously inspired the founders of a little startup called Google. Read More

Recently Laura Drake – Portfolio Commercialization Analyst at The J.M. Smucker Company – gave a run-down of Smucker's journey to implementing an improved innovation and portfolio management process to drive more effective decision-making and produce sustainable value. Read More

In this fourth and final part in this series of guest posts, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts, focuses on end-to-end portfolio management, concluding that – from ideas to outcomes – it’s all one portfolio. Read More

You'll want to capture all the ideas that emerge from your organisation, as and when they arise, but here are nine ways to give the process a helping hand. Read More

Even just a few years ago, conventional wisdom held that “innovation” and “operations” didn’t belong in the same sentence. Performance targets ruin the creative impulse. Science needs space, time, and freedom to flourish. Innovation can never be bottled into an efficient, machine-like operation. Read More

In this third instalment of his series of opinion pieces, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts suggests that flexibility and speed-to-outcomes can drive momentum and help make better choices. Read More

A carefully chosen and well-written hypothesis makes it easy to design an experiment to test and learn from. So here are six steps to follow when crafting your prediction. Read More

In the latest in his series of opinion pieces, enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts suggests the Airbus A380 is a case in point of how investing in change is about working with diverse probabilities of success. Read More

Returning to The Lean Startup for reference, we explore the idea of experimentation in the innovation process and focus on one particular form of experiment: the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Read More

In the first of a four-part opinion piece on 'Transforming ideas into outcomes at market-speed', enterprise investment specialist Chris Potts discusses how outcomes can come from a mix of different ideas. Read More