02 — Capability · BC-520.20
Innovation Pipeline
Move ideas through stages of increasing commitment, funding the ones that keep earning it and stopping the rest early enough that stopping is cheap.
- Idea Funnel
- Innovation Portfolio
- Stage-Gate Pipeline
In scope
- Screening and selection of ideas for exploration
- Seed funding and staged investment
- Pipeline reporting and portfolio balance across horizons
Out of scope
- Product portfolio investment for committed offerings (see BC-510)
- Enterprise change portfolio (see BC-180)
Realized by · 0
- No product in the catalog yet.
Used in · 1
Build it · 0
- Nothing in the library points here yet.
Decomposes into · 4
- BC-520.20.10Idea ScreeningEvaluate ideas against fit, feasibility and potential with enough rigor to say no kindly and often.
- BC-520.20.20Exploration FundingAllocate small, staged amounts of money and time to the ideas worth learning more about, with a defined question each tranche must answer.
- BC-520.20.30Pipeline ReviewReview the pipeline as a whole for throughput, balance across near and far horizons, and the ideas that have quietly stalled.
- BC-520.20.40Innovation HandoverTransfer a validated concept into product development with its evidence, open risks and the people who understand it.