Interim Chief Innovation Officer assignments

Most companies formally recognize innovation as a strategic priority, but very few actually manage innovation. When they do, innovation is typically managed within a single department (e.g. R&D or Marketing), limiting the benefits and increasing the chances of having lots of great ideas with no positive impact on business.

We have a holistic approach for managing innovation, recognizing its value for technical inventions, creative marketing initiatives as well as any other aspect of your business. From process improvements to disruptive changes in your market, creativity and innovation can be the engine of your current and future growth as a leader in your industry.

Ignoring or failing to manage your organization creative potential in current dynamic market conditions may put you in a perpetual defensive state, where most of your costs and efforts will be channeled towards catching up with your competitors, keeping your business alive and barely profitable.

The Chief Innovation Officer role is needed to ensure the smooth and efficient engagement of your entire company in defining and achieving your future success. To support this strategic target, we will closely work with you in the following areas :

Innovation Capability Assessment

• Creativity and Innovation Awareness (individual, managerial and executive levels)
• Organizational Structures that support innovation
• Innovation as business strategy
• Cross-company and outside-company engagement
• Profitability and predictability assessment
• Implementation and Sales Capability

Executive Team Coaching – the Innovation Sponsorship Board (ISB)

• Ensure understanding of innovation and creativity principles as they apply in a business environment
• ISB as a team: shared leadership, individual and mutual accountability, collective decisions, active and broad representation of the team

Innovation strategy

• Business need, expected results and definition of success
• Risk tolerance, budgeting and measuring innovation
• Business Alignment vs. Innovation Led Strategy
• Changes in Organization, Culture, Direction

Training and Coaching

• Innovation Management
• Individual Contributors

Facilitation for Problem Solving and Opportunity Finding projects

• Employ techniques that reduce the uncertainty related to creativity and innovation
• Maximize the chances to find realistic and profitable ideas that make business sense
• Build and coach efficient, results oriented creative teams

Chief Innovation Officer recruitment assistance

• Define a CIO job description that fits your needs, company culture and business environment
• Conduct preliminary interviews
• Help the integration of the new CIO by managing the expectations of the executive team and establish the initial communication bridge between them