The Innovator’s Compass · Reader Resources

Make innovation measurable

An innovation project produces four returns — financial, strategic, intangible, and learning. ROI captures exactly one of them; the other three stay invisible, and the assets they create vanish when the project ends.

The Innovator’s Compass exists to fix that — and this page holds its complete working playbook: the ROI² calculator, the eight appendix templates, the worked example, and any corrections to the edition you are holding.

The Innovator's Compass — Make Innovation Measurable with ROI² (book cover)

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The Compass resources

1 · The ROI² Workbook — the calculator. Seventeen linked sheets, every formula live, pre-loaded with a worked public-sector example:

  • The 191-indicator catalogue, filtered by a selection wizard
  • The FILS four-capital decomposition and capital sub-scores
  • Income / Cost / Market triangulation of returns
  • Maturity assessment, trajectory and executive dashboard
  • National strategy cross-walk for eleven jurisdictions
  • A latent-potential estimator for the innovation you cannot yet see

2 · The Compass Worksheets — the eight templates from the appendices, ready to fill in:

  • Compass Scorecard, Quarterly Review, Annual Report, Horizon Plan (App. B)
  • The 20-question Innovation Memory Self-Assessment, scored automatically (App. D)
  • Season Design E.1 and Initiative Selection E.2 worksheets (App. E)
  • The AI-OM Channel Audit and governance checklists (App. I)

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The worked example

The workbook ships calibrated as a complete worked example: a public-sector innovation portfolio scored across a full investment season. Sheet 11 — How to Use — walks the sequence: set the operating context, select indicators, score the four capitals, read the ROI² needle. Replace the example values with your own and the instrument recomputes end to end.

The era of Innovation Theatre is over. Embrace Innovation Management.

Corrections

First edition (August 2026) — no corrections recorded yet. Errors that surface will be listed here, most recent first. Spotted one? Write to yann@yrp.me — confirmed corrections are credited in the next printing.

The book

The Innovator’s Compass — Make Innovation Measurable with ROI² is available now in Kindle and paperback.

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