Breakthrough Innovation starts with the system you build

The Breakthrough Innovator's Accelerator is a 12-week, guided peer learning programme for innovation, strategy, and R&D leaders who want to turn ambition into repeatable innovation outcomes and commercialise bigger, bolder innovations that excite customers and drive business growth.

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Leading companies want bigger and bolder innovations that excite customers and return peer-leading financial results.

They want to break through with new products into new markets or to outcompete through business models – and this is within your grasp.

The Accelerator is a 12-week strategic programme designed for innovation leaders who want to deliver breakthrough outcomes, not just better ideas. It equips you with a practical system to organise for bolder innovations that shift markets, drive growth, and rewire internal systems for consistent results.

Why Innovation Is Stuck — And What to Do About It

You're probably not short on ideas. You've got some talent, an ambition, and a budget. But innovation – especially bigger, bolder solutions can feel:

• Too slow to scale, or stalling completely
• Disconnected from real business opportunities
• High on energy, but low on outcomes, AKA Innovation Theatre

There is a reason working behind the scenes, invisibly undermining your hard work.

It’s your system - the integrated approach of ambition, strategy, leadership, capabilities, and your systems and processes, that is underperforming in making the bigger, bolder, more valuable solutions - your “breakthroughs” - happen.

And that’s exactly what this programme is designed to fix.

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We will have a short no-obligation conversation with you to ensure you meet the right criteria so we can create the optimal collaborative learning environment for this programme.

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Why this matters NOW

Breakthrough innovation is now a board-level conversation. As digital disruption, sustainability pressures, and shifting market dynamics accelerate, companies that can’t deliver step-change innovation are being left behind.

Your competitors aren’t waiting. And neither should you.

What the BTI Accelerator helps you do

You’re under pressure to deliver innovation that matters. New revenue, new markets, and meaningful sustainability impact.
  • Identify and assess bold innovation plays with real market and business impact.
  • Apply the BTI Operating System to fix your innovation bottlenecks.
  • Design a plan for scaling, not just piloting, your next breakthrough.
  • Build alignment across R&D, business units, and leadership teams.

This is a practical, guided, peer-supported transformation based on the BTI Operating System (BTI-OS) and delivered by Rob Munro. 

This is a practical, guided, peer-supported transformation—based on the BTI Operating System (BTI-OS) and delivered by Rob Munro.

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What you'll experience in just 12 weeks

Use the BTI Diagnostic to assess your innovation system and identify action.

Identify high-value opportunities and design a better portfolio.

Build a custom innovation strategy aligned to your Big Idea for breakthrough outcomes.

Develop your innovation strategy to support your Big Idea to market.

Define key roles, capabilities, and metrics to scale success.

Learn with a senior peer group and get 1:1 feedback on your system.

You’ll see immediate wins: stronger framing of initiatives, clearer project priorities, and team alignment. More importantly, you’ll establish a lasting innovation system that delivers results quarter after quarter.

Outcome: A breakthrough strategy and your specific operating model, you can implement with confidence.

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Who is this for?

This cohort is for leaders who:

  • Drive innovation, strategy, or R&D
  • Need to build capability, not just run projects
  • Want influence at the executive and board level
  • Are committed to transforming innovation performance not just polishing PowerPoints

If you’ve been investing in innovation for years, but still feel stuck, you’re not alone. We’ve worked with senior leaders like you: engineers turned strategists, tech scouts turned transformation heads. You know there’s more potential in your teams and technologies. This is how you unlock it.

Programme Format

Duration: 12 weeks

Cohort: 10 seats

Starts: 27 October 2025

Price: GBP2497

Includes: Diagnostic, strategic design tools, 1:1 support, peer sessions, and ongoing BTI online community access

About Rob Munro, the Founder of the Breakthrough Accelerator

I’m a founder and advisor to leaders of technology-intensive innovation working to help firms achieve greater innovation success.

I started Innovation Success in 2013 on the idea of innovation systems thinking to provide pressure relief for innovation leaders in complex technology-intensive organisations operating in the advanced manufacturing, energy, chemicals and materials supply chains.

And I'm excited to bring to you the Breakthrough Innovator's Accelerator. It's based on real-world experience - both mine and yours, and on relevant research into innovation and technology management. I've read all the books and academic papers and built this system for enhancing company innovation fitness.

Engineer with MBA - with a focus on innovation and technology management, I’ve been working to bring better innovation management practice for over a decade including with the world-renowned Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University and Manchester University Business School.

I have 35 years of experience in the innovation space delivering to date 45 projects and an estimated $550m in new value created for clients.

“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; to innovate a better world."

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What clients say about the programme

“The Accelerator gave us what we’d been missing—structure, speed, and the confidence to pursue bolder ideas. We left with a clear path to scale.”

 

Head of R&D, Global Engineering Group

“Every session added value. We didn’t just learn—we applied, challenged, and shifted how we run innovation. Game-changing.”

Director of Innovation, Energy Technology Company

 

“What sets this apart is the focus on systems. It’s not a workshop series—it’s a shift in how your organisation approaches breakthrough.”

 

VP Strategy, Advanced Manufacturing Firm

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THE FUTURE YOU'LL CREATE


The BTI Accelerator isn’t a training course. It gives you confidence for making change happen and noticeably bigger results.

Our clients don’t just launch better projects, they build strategic agility, long-term value creation, and resilience into their systems. THIS is how they scale what matters and leave incrementalism behind.

This program is built for execution, not innovation theatre. You’ll gain the system, peer learning, and expert support to:

  • Frame high-value playing fields
  • Align your portfolio to strategic goals
  • Create a pathway to scale with confidence

Ready to stop innovation theatre and start delivering real breakthroughs?

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