Innovation Audit & Roadmap
Every organization believes things about its own innovation that are no longer true. The audit finds them. Our independent experts go through your innovation strategy, culture, processes and resources and come back with the picture as it is, not as the last slide deck described it. What works, what is broken and where the opportunities are hiding. Then we turn the picture into a prioritized roadmap, and the roadmap into capability your own people carry forward.
What we examine+
The whole engine, not just the output.
- How innovation is organized, mapped visually across strategy, culture, process and resources
- Where initiatives stall, and whether the cause is structure, skills or incentives
- How decisions and budgets actually flow, versus how the org chart says they do
- How your capability compares with organizations that innovate reliably
How the audit runs+
Six weeks from kickoff to a roadmap your leadership team has already aligned on.
- Week 1 · Kickoff and document deep-dive
- Weeks 2–3 · Interviews and visual mapping across strategy, culture, process and resources
- Week 4 · Findings. The honest mirror, held up
- Week 5 · The roadmap session with leadership
- Week 6 · Handover, with owners and measures attached
When to run an audit+
- At the start of a transformation program or strategic cycle
- After a big innovation push that did not deliver
- When leadership disagrees about whether innovation is working
- Before doubling the budget. Cheaper to check the engine first.
What you will walk away with+
Quick wins for the first three months, targeted interventions for the year, and structural moves beyond it. Each with an owner, a measure and a reason, in one prioritized roadmap the leadership team has already aligned on.
Who this is for+
- Leadership teams who know innovation matters but not whether it is working
- Boards and investors who want an independent read
- New executives inheriting an innovation portfolio
Designed, like everything we do, to make itself unnecessary.
Ready forthe future?
Explore the possibilities with Patrick van der Pijl and the BMI team. Every big shift starts with a conversation.