The document discusses how businesses struggle with innovation and new product development. It notes that studies show it takes 3000 raw ideas to produce one successful new product. The biggest barrier to innovation is often a company's own organizational structure and culture. There are two competing organizations - the day-to-day operations organization and the innovation organization. Without good synchronization between these, new products can fall short and the innovation pipeline is inefficient. The document provides advice on analyzing a company's barriers, debottlenecking processes, and establishing the right roles, accountability, collaboration and systems to improve innovation performance.