The Breakthrough Growth Series 2026
Executive Briefings for Leaders Who Want Bigger Innovation Results
Most organisations say innovation matters.
But few have built the systems required to deliver breakthrough outcomes.
Across industries, we see the same pattern repeated. Innovation pipelines are full, activity levels are high, yet meaningful growth breakthroughs remain rare. The reason is not a lack of ideas. It is a lack of alignment between growth ambition, technology investment and innovation execution.
The Breakthrough Growth Series 2026 explores this challenge from multiple angles. Across our series of live executive briefings, we will examine how organisations move from scattered innovation activity to installed capability for breakthrough results.
These sessions are designed for senior leaders responsible for innovation, technology, R&D and growth strategy in large, technology-intensive organisations.
Each briefing is 60 minutes, including discussion.
The GTI Shift Part I: The Hidden Faultlines in Growth, and Technology and Innovation Strategy
Tuesday, 21 April 2026, 11:00 BST
Based on a meta-study of strategy research, industry reports and case analysis, this session reveals a persistent pattern: growth ambition, technology investment and innovation execution are rarely aligned.We explore the structural tensions between:
Growth targets, Technology roadmaps, Innovation portfoliosThis is not about creativity. It is about achieving strategic coherence.
The GTI Shift Part II: Why Culture Cannot Fix Strategic Misalignment
Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 11:00 BST
Many firms respond to underperformance by investing in culture programmes. But culture is an output of system design. In this session, we connect GTI faultlines to structural choices in governance, funding, portfolio logic and leadership incentives.
We extend the research narrative and link GTI to the BTI-OS architecture.
Rob Munro
Rob Munro is the founder of Innovation Success and works with global technology-intensive organisations to design and install systems capable of delivering breakthrough innovation. His work draws on over 25 years of experience in R&D, technology strategy and innovation leadership.
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Why This Series Exists
So-called Game-changing innovation is a #2 Priority for innovation leaders in 2026. Building an engine to support it is #1.
Over the past decade, many organisations have invested heavily in innovation.
New innovation teams have been created.
Digital labs have been launched.
Venture programmes have appeared across large corporations.
Yet the results often remain disappointing.
Through work with global technology-intensive organisations, a consistent pattern has emerged: the core challenge is not innovation activity itself, but the alignment between growth ambition, technology capability and innovation execution.
This observation has led to a deeper investigation into what we call the Breakthrough Innovator’s Operating System.
The briefings in this series draw on:
• Over a decade of work with innovation leaders in technology-intensive industries
• Strategic roadmapping and innovation strategy projects across multiple sectors
• Ongoing research examining how growth strategy, technology investment and innovation systems interact
The aim of the series is simple: to move the conversation about innovation beyond tools and programmes and towards the system architecture required to deliver game-changing results.
Three Questions Every Innovation Leader Should Ask
Many organisations believe they are investing seriously in innovation.
But a few simple questions often reveal whether innovation is truly positioned to deliver growth, or whether it remains a collection of well-intentioned initiatives.
1. Are your growth ambitions clearly connected to technology capability?
Growth strategies often describe markets and opportunities. Technology teams develop roadmaps around capability development. Yet these two domains frequently evolve separately.
When that happens, innovation portfolios drift away from the strategic growth agenda.
2. Does your innovation portfolio reflect strategic priorities or historical activity?
Many innovation portfolios grow organically over time. Projects accumulate; legacy initiatives remain active, and new ideas are added without a clear connection to long-term growth priorities.
The result is activity without strategic leverage.
3. Is innovation a managed pipeline, or an installed organisational capability?
Innovation pipelines can generate ideas and experiments.
But breakthrough outcomes require something deeper: governance, leadership alignment, funding logic and capability development working together as a coherent system.
Few organisations have consciously designed that system.
These questions sit at the heart of the Breakthrough Growth Series 2026.
Across four executive briefings, we will explore how organisations move from fragmented innovation activity to a coherent Growth–Technology–Innovation system capable of delivering breakthrough results.
If you are responsible for innovation, technology or growth strategy, these sessions will provide a fresh perspective on what it really takes to deliver bigger outcomes.
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Prefer to explore before joining a live session?
You can review earlier briefings and frameworks on-demand.