Jim looks back on his many years working in and around Intel Corporation's New Business Incubator as it evolved over the years. He covers what works worked well, and what challenges Intel faced and how BRI is taking the learnings from that experience to help its clients learn and avoid those pitfalls.

First time back to Japan since the pandemic. We had a great time facilitating a two-day workshop covering detailed methods and best practices for managing new business innovation portfolios, delving deep into the application of our Strategy Hypothesis Framework, Opportunity Evaluation Methodology and Scorecards, Investment Decision Making Discipline, and of course, the number one killer of innovation in mature companies, Company Fit and Resource, Process, & Priority (RPP) Alignment.

The Growth Forge Suite of product strategy modeling and innovation tools has been updated to include two new tools focused on helping users better understand and capture customers' challenges and unmet needs as well as testing their product solution hypotheses with customers. These new tools are available now, for all Growth Forge subscription packages.

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Thanks to Innov8rs for hosting the October online Learning Lab. There were many great sessions & discussions covering the key topics of Strategy, Leadership, Portfolio Management & Governance. It’s great to see the evolution of the best practices and understanding of the innovation community as a whole. Topics that were new insights and concepts ten years ago now have multiple experts and practitioners discussing and refining them.

The high-profile court battle between Epic Games and Apple over Apple’s AppStore policies and their share of developer revenues is a prime example of the difficult balancing act a Platform operator must perform to maintain the support and loyalty of the ecosystem that their Platform depends on and their ability to control and monetize the Platform.

Corporations are increasingly prioritizing and investing in innovation as the pace of competition continues to accelerate, but for many, the question of how to effectively measure and manage their innovation efforts is the proverbial elephant in the room that no one really wants to talk about.

The artifacts of innovation are the tangible deliverables that can be managed, measured and evaluated along the innovation lifecycle. What are they and how do they help facilitate innovation?

Mature companies are rightly focused on increasing their innovative capabilities to remain competitive and drive growth, and many of them look to the fruitful results of the venture-backed startup community as a role model for innovation practices. However, there are significant differences between innovation and growth in established enterprises vs. true, venture-backed startups and ignoring those differences can be a recipe for failure.