Bigger, Bolder Innovation

Your Engine for Growth

You’re not short on ambition - or ideas. But when strategy, technology and capabilities fail to work together, even the boldest initiatives falter.

We help leaders make big and bold the norm.

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Airbus, Babcock, bp, Costain, Domino Printing, GSK, Haleon, Horizon Europe, Johnson Matthey, NPL, Thales, Pepsico, pladis, Royce Institute, Repsol, Tata Steel, Tecnalia, Queen's University

Bigger, bolder innovation results aren’t a random act.

It’s about building the right capabilities where strategy, technology, and innovation work in sync.

That’s what delivers consistent, focused growth again and again.

At Innovation Success, we partner with leaders to rewire how innovation works at the organisational level, making it strategic, systemic, and scalable.

At the heart of this is the Breakthrough Innovator’s Operating System, a practical and proven framework that acts as your growth engine.

Services to support your journey

The results you can expect:

  • Bigger and more valuable solutions that breakthrough with your customers.
  • A strong pipeline of higher potential solutions aligned with your strategy.
  • Improved cross-functional buy-in and execution.
  • Measurable competitive advantage and ROI.

Client Success Stories

Innovation Roadmap for building a national capability in time and frequency

A two-step process was used following a series of interviews with several national and international experts. Ecosystem mapping was used to make explicit the organisations in the time and positioning business ecosystem. By understanding the main players, and how value … Read more

Product and Capability Roadmapping for Consumer Healthcare

The task of developing the technology roadmap was given to the R&D team. It went about building a small internal and external network of experts and working through the innovation process.  The project was designed to run over four months … Read more

National Materials Innovation Strategy

Following an initial desktop review of key publications, reports and studies, a series of subject-matter expert interviews was run. This provided the input to a 1-day consultation workshop with experts and sector leaders. A key differentiator and innovation of the … Read more

Innovation strategy for transformation and growth

A three-stage process was designed with the client. Part 1: Assess the current stage of the innovation organisation and set priorities for improvement.  The Breakthrough Innovation Assessment was used to evaluate the situation; online surveys with interviews with the senior … Read more

Roadmapping for Sustainable Energy Transition

Setting the scene To stimulate new thinking informational interviews were conducted with a variety of international energy and industrial futures experts. The results of these were framed into a draft future strategic landscape for transitional energy technologies and value creation … Read more

Innovation Roadmapping for Advanced Manufacturing in Northern Ireland

A series of stakeholder interviews were conducted with senior leaders across the sectors to give a wide scan of the opportunities, threats and solutions. Next, a two-day workshop was convened with 50 representatives from industry, academia and government. The main … Read more

Engagement in Innovation for Professional Member Network

With a topic firmly decided an innovation process was designed to, Invite knowledgeable and interested participants to the roamdapping process and prepare their expert inputs. A one-day strategic roadmapping in-person workshop developed an innovation landscape, identified high-potential solutions and develop … Read more

The Graphene Centre: A strategic review

Key potential users of GEIC will be industrial companies and to conduct the study a number were selected from across the supply chain: from large to SME, from electronics to composites and beyond. Interviews with senior innovation and business leaders … Read more

Training an innovation community

A survey of managers and leaders across the complex multinational business was undertaken that showed there was a clear difference in development practices and the take up of approaches and the value delivered. The proposal was to create a common … Read more

A Risk Based Approach to Technology Development

Process: A technology risk assessment process was developed and run for the client and used to assess and mitigate the key risks to commercialization. A mitigation plan fed the trial development programme with the critical information needed which focussed efforts … Read more

“Rob’s extensive experience in Industrial was a key factor in selecting the team for my project which allowed me to produce a technology strategy for the organisation and establish a common framework for what our technology roadmap should be in our organisation.”

Senior Technology Leader FTSE100 Industrial

Rob Munro

I'm Rob Munro, and for a decade, I've been working to make better innovation management practices the norm, advising leaders of technology-intensive organisations to help them achieve greater innovation success.

With 35 years of corporate and start-up experience in the innovation space, I've helped deliver over 45 projects and an estimated $550m in new value created for companies

When I started Innovation Success in 2013, I had a revelation that systems thinking is the missing link to sustaining innovation-led growth in complete organisations.

“I became frustrated with the lack of pace and ambition in corporate innovation.  So I founded Innovation Success to help other innovation leaders overcome the barriers. I will guide you to develop your company’s roadmap to innovation mastery."

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