Steve Donaghy
Innovation and Transformation Director
incl. advisory, interim, fractional
With 35 years in global technology services delivering major transformations and 20 years focused across hundreds of innovation strategies, I help Chief Innovation Officers and R&D Directors in global organisations ensure their innovation activities deliver real impact in line with strategic goals
If you feel frustrated by any of these, make contact for a free consultation
Innovation strategy not delivering maximum strategic value
Innovation activities need to be delivering more, faster
Selecting the ideas with greatest probability of success is difficult
Delivery and scaling is taking too long
The feedback process is not improving outcomes
*confidential, no-commitment
Services
I am happy to discuss how I may help in any way valuable
Innovation Strategy Support
Learnings from implementing HPE’s Global Innovation Framework with 400 enterprise innovation strategies, and billion dollar clients, including
Clarity on the how innovation explicitly supports your organisation’s goals
Measurable, outcome-driven, impactful targets well communicated and understood
The strongest prioritisation of activities toward your organisation’s short, mid and long-term goals
A positive culture of creativity, validation, fast delivery & continuous improvement
Governance Development & Review
There is much strong practice out there; in reality challenges are often unique to each organisation; an external review often offers new insights
Clarity of message; alignment to goals; working with business and clients
Strong selection practices, portfolio prioritisation and risk management, all at speed
Measurability of outcomes and continuous improvement
A positive culture of informed-innovation and impact-or-delete across the organisation
Selection Process Strengthening
Selecting the inventions and ideas with the highest probability of success is one of our most important challenges and yet remains one of our toughest
Early & challenging client engagement, client behaviours & commitments; invest in evidence, stop the rest
Potential value informs prioritisation of course but so do delivery capability, scalability, speed, brand, IP, portfolio placement and risk
Making the selection, and de-selection, process fast whilst remaining robust and strategically aligned
Continuous improvement based on successes and failures
Delivery capability & control, speed & risk considered realistically during strategy and selection
From invention to delivery; working early & closely with business leaders; delivery readiness, prioritisation & feedback
Speed to market and validation: successes and failures fed back into strategy, governance and selection
Delivery Capability
Having led award-winning* transformations, and large high-pressure turnarounds, my delivery experience informs my innovation delivery views
* “No-one else in Europe could have delivered in these timeframes” - UK public sector
Feedback & Improvement
Post project reviews and lessons learned are common but less so seen in the art of invention selection
Identify why initiatives succeeded or fell short
Feed lessons back into selection criteria; become a leader in selection
Improve future investment prioritisation and success rates; minimise risk; improve speed
Feel free to contact via LinkedIn or email, or ‘Book a free consultation’; if you prefer to use the form to leave a number, I will call you back as soon as possible
I am happy to have a confidential conversation any time
London based, available globally; on-site or remote as desired; availability includes short-term, advisory, interim or fractional roles
*confidential, no-commitment
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