Build Your Innovation Engine
The Innovation Mode Advisory — 25 Years of AI-Powered Innovation Leadership, Deployed in 8 Weeks
A diagnostic and transformation program that delivers what a Chief Innovation Officer hire would take months to produce — led by the author of Innovation Mode 2.0.
You Know You Need to Innovate. The Question Is How.
The board wants an innovation strategy. Your teams want direction. The market is moving — and you're running out of time to respond. You've seen the pattern before: hackathons that produce energy but no products, innovation labs that impress visitors but generate zero revenue, AI pilots that never scale beyond the demo environment.
What Most Companies Do
- Hire a consultancy for a 200-slide strategy deck
- Appoint a CINO with no framework or political capital
- Run hackathons that produce demos, not products
- Build innovation labs that become corporate showrooms
- Track "ideas submitted" as a success metric
What This Program Delivers
- A diagnostic that identifies your specific structural deficits
- A measurement framework with KPIs that track real capability
- A branded playbook your teams can actually execute
- A sequenced masterplan of 70+ prioritized interventions
- AI integration architecture for autonomous discovery
This isn't a consulting engagement. It's a transformation program — led by the person who wrote the book on it.
Four Executive Deliverables. Zero Filler.
Every deliverable is built on the AI-powered innovation frameworks from Innovation Mode 2.0 — the same diagnostic tools, maturity models, and intervention sequences used to build innovation functions at Microsoft, Accenture, GSK, and four technology startups.
Innovation Readiness Assessment
A comprehensive diagnostic using the Innovation Maturity Index — the 7-level framework from Innovation Mode 2.0. We assess your organization across the 6 Innovation Deficits: leadership, organizational design, capabilities, real-world connection, talent & culture, and venture building. No generic benchmarks — a diagnosis mapped to your operating reality.
Innovation Performance Framework
Custom KPIs and a dashboard architecture that measure what actually matters — not vanity metrics like "ideas submitted" but indicators of genuine innovation capability: validation velocity, concept-to-MVP cycle time, portfolio health, and innovation ROI. Designed to report upward to the board and downward to execution teams.
Innovation Playbook
A branded internal operating manual for your organization — methods, templates, decision frameworks, AI tool integration, escalation paths, and role definitions that answer "how do we innovate here?" This becomes your teams' reference document — creating alignment through a shared innovation language across every business unit.
Innovation Masterplan
A prioritized transformation roadmap built on the Six Phases framework from Innovation Mode 2.0 — from foundational capability-building through to AI-powered autonomous innovation. Every recommendation includes the why, the how, and the specific sequence. This is your board-ready innovation strategy document.
Every program includes 10 copies of Innovation Mode 2.0 — the complete 70+ intervention framework that underpins this advisory engagement. Your leadership team receives the definitive guide to sustaining and scaling the transformation long after the program concludes.
Your Masterplan Follows the Six Phases of Innovation Transformation
The Innovation Masterplan sequences 70+ interventions across six progressive phases from the book. Your roadmap starts where your organization is today — and maps the specific path to where it needs to be.
Week by Week. Objective by Objective.
50 hours of advisory delivered across 32 sessions. Every week has a defined objective, a structured methodology, and a tangible output. Remote or hybrid — with the option to deliver the first and/or final week on-premise.
Innovation Readiness
We meet key stakeholders to assess your current innovation efforts using the Innovation Maturity Index. We review existing programs, map how strategy connects to innovation activity, and benchmark against high-performing organizations. A specialized survey captures perceptions across your teams. We identify the structural, cultural, and capability gaps holding you back.
Opportunity Discovery
We assess your current ideation processes and design improvements to your opportunity discovery funnel — including how to leverage AI for market scanning, signal detection, and concept generation. We cover when AI tools add value versus when human judgment is essential, and how to build feedback loops that make your discovery function smarter over time.
Innovation Performance
We work with leadership to define what "innovation success" means in your context. We design a measurement framework that tracks genuine capability — validation velocity, concept-to-MVP cycle time, portfolio balance — not activity metrics. We also design the Innovation Insights system: how to capture learnings and feed them back into your process.
Innovation Culture
We assess the health of your organizational culture across the dimensions that matter: risk tolerance, collaboration patterns, recognition systems, psychological safety, and openness to AI augmentation. Based on findings, we design targeted interventions — gamification, experimentation frameworks, knowledge exchange initiatives, and role models that signal "this is how we innovate here."
Innovation Playbook
We create your branded Innovation Playbook — a practical internal guide covering definitions, methods, tools (including AI tools), templates, decision processes, and key contacts. This document creates alignment across your organization through a shared innovation language and removes the ambiguity that kills momentum.
Innovation Masterplan
We synthesize all findings into your Innovation Masterplan — a comprehensive transformation roadmap structured around the Six Phases framework. Your Masterplan identifies where you are today, where you're headed, and the specific interventions required to get there — sequenced, prioritized, and mapped to your organization's maturity level.
Final deliverables presented to leadership: Detailed Recommendations deck, Innovation Masterplan, finalized Innovation Playbook, and 10 copies of Innovation Mode 2.0 for your leadership team.
This Isn't Innovation Consulting from 2015
AI has fundamentally changed what's possible in corporate innovation. This program shows you how to build an AI-powered innovation capability — integrating autonomous AI into your innovation function not as experiments, but as operational infrastructure.
Autonomous Opportunity Discovery
AI agents that scan markets, patents, academic research, and competitive signals 24/7 — surfacing ranked business opportunities your teams would take months to notice.
AI-Powered Concept Validation
Simulated panels of synthetic personas that stress-test concepts for feasibility, market fit, and risk — compressing weeks of traditional research into hours.
Accelerated Realization
AI-assisted product framing: user stories, technical stack recommendations, go-to-market hypotheses, and experiment designs — generated before your team opens their first planning doc.
Portfolio Intelligence
Real-time dashboards that track innovation health across all initiatives — giving leadership visibility into pipeline strength, validation progress, and portfolio balance.
Not theoretical. The author designed and built Ainna.ai — an autonomous innovation agent that runs this exact architecture in production. The AI capabilities in this program come from someone who builds AI systems, holds 20+ AI patents, and deploys what he teaches.
You're Working with an AI Inventor and Founder — Not a Consultant
This program isn't led by a team of junior consultants with a methodology deck. It's led personally by the person who wrote the methodology, built the tools, and holds the patents.
Designed for the Leaders Who Own the Innovation Mandate
The program works best with a core team of 3–5 stakeholders who have visibility into both strategy and operations. Your team's commitment: 4–6 hours per week across interviews, workshops, and review sessions.
CEOs, COOs & CxO Leadership
You set the strategic direction. This program gives you the diagnostic truth about your innovation maturity — and a sequenced roadmap that compounds over time.
Chief Innovation Officers & VPs of Innovation
You own the function. This program gives you the frameworks, the playbook, and the board-ready deliverables to make it produce measurable outcomes.
Heads of Product, R&D & Technology
You build what gets shipped. This program connects innovation strategy to product execution — from AI-powered discovery through MVP definition and go-to-market.
HR & Transformation Leadership
You shape the culture. This program assesses the cultural dimensions that enable or block innovation — and designs targeted interventions to shift them.
Questions from Prospective Clients
How does this relate to Innovation Mode 2.0?
Is this suitable for our company size?
What's the time commitment for our team?
Can this be delivered on-premise?
What happens after the 8 weeks?
How is this different from a traditional consulting engagement?
On Innovation Mode 2.0 — The Book Behind the Methodology
The frameworks deployed in this program are drawn from Innovation Mode 2.0 (Springer, 2026). Here's what innovation leaders are saying about the book.
"Not just a book, but a blueprint for what it really takes to build innovative companies in today's world — companies that don't just talk about innovation, but live it in their culture, in their systems, and in their everyday decisions."— Alex Adamopoulos | CEO, Emergn
"An excellent overview and reference point about people, culture, and capabilities as the key pillars of innovation and practical ways to discover, validate, and realize opportunities on the road to innovation."— Dr. Mathew Hughes | Professor of Innovation, University of Leicester
"Very practical and inspirational for executives, leaders, middle-level managers, and teams willing to transform their vision to actual execution. Must-read and must-use."— Achilleas Stergioulis | Director, INTRASOFT International
"A must-read to any innovation leader in their efforts to reflect and refine existing innovation activities or to set them up completely new."— Erik Schumb | Founder & CXO, Agile Sprints
"A practical guide for how to tap your organization's creative energy, and transform it into an innovation-driven pace-setter."— Bart Manning | Head of Sales & Business Development, Unity
"An inspiring and must-read for every organization that doesn't wish to sit on the sidelines while someone else steals their share of the market."— Sue McGill | SVP, ATB Ventures
Ready to Build Your Innovation Engine?
Fill in a brief application form and receive a tailored proposal within 48 hours — matched to your organization's size, maturity, and goals.
Request a Proposal →50 hours · 32 sessions · 8 weeks · Remote or hybrid · Includes 10 copies of Innovation Mode 2.0
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