G6: Getting Leaders On Board: Don’t Let Your Innovation Program be Pronounced Dead on Arrival, Ben Hafele

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This document discusses strategies for getting leadership support for innovation programs: - It recommends using Investment Readiness Levels (IRL) and project age to measure progress across a portfolio of early-stage projects and determine which projects receive additional funding. - Leaders and stakeholders should understand that the goal is to reduce risk by validating ideas before large investments, and that success means achieving a high IRL rather than scale, while failure means not achieving a high IRL or scale. - Projects should earn additional funding through IRL milestones rather than receiving overfunding initially.

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Getting Leaders On Board: Don’t Let Your
Innovation Program be Pronounced Dead on Arrival
25 October, 2019
Ben Hafele

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Investment Readiness Levels
Search Execute
Lean Startup & Design Thinking
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Description
IRL 1 Complete First-Pass Canvas
IRL 2 Market Size / Competitive Analysis
IRL 3 Problem / Solution Validation
IRL 4 Prototype Low Fidelity MVP
IRL 5 Validate Product / Market Fit
IRL 6 Validate Right Side of Canvas
IRL 7 Prototype High Fidelity MVP
IRL 8 Validate Left Side of Canvas
IRL 9 Validate Metrics That Matter
Source: Steve Blank blog post - It’s Time to Play
Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level
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Use a concept similar to the Investment
Readiness Levels to measure progress
across all Search stage projects.

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Vetting & Metered Funding
Risk Valuation / Funding
Note: This never goes to zero.
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Do not over-fund Search stage
projects; rather, make projects
earn additional funding.

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“Search” Stage Innovation Portfolio
Project Name Lead Coach Description
Next Sprint
Report-Out
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Excalibur Hamid Chai Blah blah 15 June, 2019 8 9.6 $30M
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Nimba Joao Nate Blah blah 25 May, 2019 2 2.1 $20M
Use Investment Readiness Level
and Age as two primary portfolio
metrics for Search stage projects.

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Defining Success & Failure
Imagine in 2
years you…
Scaled /
Executed
Did Not Scale
/ Execute
Achieved IRL9
Could not
achieve IRL9
Success Failure
Failure Success
Make sure that your team and
stakeholders understand the
definition of success and failure.

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Summary
• Make sure your team and stakeholders understand
• the business goal of Lean Startup & Design Thinking
• the definitions of success and failure
• Do not over-fund Search stage projects; rather, make projects earn additional funding
• To measure progress across a portfolio of Search stage projects, use
• a concept similar to Investment Readiness Levels
• project age
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