# InnovationOS

> The operating system for corporate innovation — kill waste, fund experiments, scale what works.

InnovationOS is an enterprise innovation management platform that operationalizes 13+ proven innovation frameworks into one integrated system. It helps organizations capture signals, triage opportunities, kill waste, fund experiments, and scale what works using evidence-based decision making and AI agents.

## Core Capabilities

- **Signal Triage Room**: AI-powered signal capture, scoring, and classification with automated enrichment from market data, competitor analysis, and trend correlation.
- **Innovation Court**: Evidence-based go/kill decision making with structured cases, explicit assumptions, risk analysis, and clear verdicts.
- **Kill Fund**: Waste reclamation engine that audits underperforming initiatives, reclaims budget, and redirects capacity to fund promising experiments.
- **Constraint Engine**: TRIZ, SIT, and Blue Ocean Strategy-powered ideation within real organizational constraints.
- **Trend Radar**: Real-time market and technology trend monitoring with AI-powered analysis.
- **Innovation Accounting**: Validated learning metrics replacing vanity metrics for experiment tracking.
- **Stage-Gate Roadmaps**: Configurable stage-gate process with checkpoints, governance rules, and metered funding.
- **Agentic AI**: Autonomous AI agents that execute multi-step innovation workflows — from signal scanning to decision support.
- **Shadow Board**: Portfolio stress testing and devil's advocate reviews for innovation proposals.
- **Innovation Challenges**: Gamified innovation challenges with judging, scoring, and tournament brackets.
- **Open Innovation Marketplace**: Cross-organization innovation marketplace with IP agreement tracking.
- **Kill Index**: Composite health score measuring innovation system effectiveness across signal velocity, decision speed, waste ratio, and engagement.
- **Aspire Module**: Innovation vision setting, ambition targets, and strategic north-star metrics.
- **Mobilize Module**: Champion networks, skills matrices, culture scorecards, and gamification for organizational innovation capability.

## Embedded Frameworks

InnovationOS operationalizes 13 proven innovation frameworks:

1. **Lean Startup** (Eric Ries) — Build-measure-learn loops to validate assumptions before scaling.
2. **Stage-Gate** (Robert Cooper) — Structured phases with go/kill checkpoints to manage risk.
3. **TRIZ** (Genrich Altshuller) — Systematic inventive thinking using 40 principles to resolve contradictions.
4. **Blue Ocean Strategy** (Kim & Mauborgne) — Create uncontested market space rather than competing in existing ones.
5. **SIT** (Roni Horowitz) — Innovation within constraints using subtraction, division, multiplication, task unification, and attribute dependency.
6. **Jobs to Be Done** (Clayton Christensen) — Understand the job customers hire products to do.
7. **Three Horizons** (McKinsey) — Portfolio balance across core business, emerging opportunities, and future bets.
8. **Innovation Accounting** (Eric Ries) — Measure progress with validated learning metrics.
9. **Discovery-Driven Planning** (McGrath & MacMillan) — Test assumptions systematically before committing resources.
10. **Real Options** (Financial theory) — Treat investments as options: invest small to learn, then decide to scale or kill.
11. **Design Thinking** (IDEO / Stanford d.school) — Human-centered approach: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test.
12. **Effectuation** (Saras Sarasvathy) — Start with available means rather than predetermined goals.
13. **Ambidextrous Organization** (Tushman & O'Reilly) — Simultaneously exploit existing business and explore new opportunities.

## Innovation Lifecycle

The platform follows a 7-step innovation lifecycle:

1. **Aspire** — Set innovation vision, ambition targets, and scan emerging trends.
2. **Discover** — Capture signals from support, CRM, monitoring, and open innovation partners.
3. **Ideate** — Apply TRIZ, Blue Ocean, and SIT frameworks; launch challenges and bounties.
4. **Choose** — Kill Fund audits, court hearings, and Shadow Board reviews for evidence-based decisions.
5. **Evolve** — Stage-gated roadmaps and metered funding for validated experiments.
6. **Mobilize** — Champions networks, skills matrices, culture scorecards, and gamification.
7. **Measure** — Kill Index aggregates kill rate, time-to-decision, experiments shipped, and budget reclaimed.

## Key Differentiators

- **Ops, not ideation**: Starts where brainstorm tools stop. Evidence-based pipeline management.
- **Kill-to-fund model**: The only platform that systematically reclaims waste budget and redirects it to experiments.
- **13 frameworks, one engine**: Frameworks applied automatically at the right stage, not workshopped once a quarter.
- **Structured governance**: Innovation Court replaces committee theatre with evidence-based verdicts.
- **Agentic AI built in**: Autonomous agents that triage signals, draft decisions, and run multi-step workflows.

## Research & Evidence

- 94% of executives are dissatisfied with innovation performance (McKinsey Global Innovation Survey)
- Only 6% of CEOs are satisfied with innovation results (BCG Most Innovative Companies Report)
- 70–95% of innovation initiatives fail due to lack of process (Harvard Business Review)
- Organizations with structured decision processes are 6× more likely to make good strategic decisions (McKinsey)
- Teams with constraints outperform unconstrained teams by 30% (Creative problem-solving research)
- Validated learning reduces failure rates by up to 50% (Lean Startup methodology)
- By 2027, 50% of digital workers will use AI agents to automate multi-step workflows (Bain & Company)

## Target Audience

Chief Innovation Officers, VP Innovation, R&D Directors, Innovation Managers, Corporate Strategy Leaders, and enterprise teams of 5 to 5,000+.

## Pricing

- **Team Plan**: Core modules, up to 25 users, innovation accounting, email support, 30-day guided pilot.
- **Enterprise Plan**: All modules including Agentic AI & Open Innovation, unlimited users, SSO/SAML/SCIM, dedicated CSM, custom integrations.
- **30-Day Guided Pilot**: Free pilot with real data to validate the platform before committing.

## Links

- Website: https://innovationos.eu
- Contact: https://innovationos.eu/contact
- ROI Calculator: https://innovationos.eu/roi-calculator
- Research & Evidence: https://innovationos.eu/research
- Privacy Policy: https://innovationos.eu/privacy
- Terms of Service: https://innovationos.eu/terms
- Cookie Policy: https://innovationos.eu/cookies

## Company

InnovationOS by Galactic Automation, based in Zottegem, Belgium.
Contact: stijn@galacticautomation.com