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Most organisations don’t have an innovation problem. They have a measurement problem.
Thirty years accompanying innovators across four cultures.
One lesson: what you can’t measure, you lose.
The Innovator’s Compass
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Walk into any boardroom in the world and ask the CEO how innovative their company is. You will get an answer. It will be confident. It will cite patents filed, hackathons run, R&D spend as a percentage of revenue. It will tell you almost nothing useful. Innovation without measurement is an act of faith…
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Thirty years — one question
“How do we make innovation actually stick?”
From Europe to the Middle East, from startups to sovereign institutions — the question has never changed. Only the scale has.
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