This week participated in Innovation Roundtable’s workshop in “Creating a Culture for Intrapreneurship & Experimentation”, hosted by Allstate in Chicago, where we facilitated two discussion workshops. The first focused on the challenges of "Company Fit" and how corporate antibodies can stifle innovation and how to use the Resources, Processes, and Priorities (RPP) Framework to proactively deal with those challenges. The second workshop focused on the challenges of the "uncertainty" inherent in all innovation and how to use "strategy modeling" to help uncertainty drive and priority innovation activities rather to stall them.

This article was featured in InnoLead's Spring Pointers series focused on difficult truths that innovation and growth focused consulting firms often face with clients. Our article discussed some of the key differences between what clients sometimes 'think' is an innovation and growth portfolio strategy, but really isn't. Of course, we also describe the key factors needed to build a 'real' portfolio strategy to manage risk and drive success.

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