Most corporate innovation programs put their focus on ideation and market fit but tend to neglect company fit, which is the biggest risk of failure most corporate innovation programs face. BRI’s Company Fit Assessment Tool can help you identify potential friction points for innovation projects and portfolios with the Resources, Processes and Priorities of the sponsoring company and provides recommendations for how to mitigate them.

This is the final article in a three-part series discussing the forces driving companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, as well as the unique challenges that such endeavors will likely create and approaches to mitigate them. In this 3rd article, we will describe why Digital Transformation Strategies are very likely to create RPP alignment challenges for many, if not most, businesses as well as some approaches to mitigating the risks those challenges pose to the Digital Transformation process.

Join BRI Managing Partner, Stephen Rich, at the 2018 Front End of Innovation Conference in April. Stephen will co-facilitate the Lean Startup Workshop with Peter Koen from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

This article is the second in a three-part series discussing the forces driving companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, as well as the unique challenges that such endeavors will likely create and approaches to mitigate them. This second article will introduce and define the concept of a business's "RPPs" (Resources, Processes, and Priorities) as a means of assessing the relative alignment of a new strategy or business with a company's core business, and why RPP alignment gaps are the biggest killer of innovation in large businesses.

This article is the first in a three-part series discussing the forces driving companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, as well as the unique challenges that such endeavors will likely create and approaches to mitigate them. This first article will discuss Digital Transformation; What it is, what's motivating companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, and why it's happening now.