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The Innovation Performance System™ (IPS™): A governance and sensing architecture for early friction intelligence.
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The Innovation Performance System™ (IPS™): A governance and sensing architecture for early friction intelligence.
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We unlock the strategic signal hidden in your frontline teams, the insights only they see.
Our structured innovation system converts that signal into measurable growth by aligning ideas with strategy and filtering for ROI.
Our system fits your existing team, no extra headcount or complexity, and embeds innovation into daily workflows so it becomes part of how your business breathes.

Our innovation architecture unites design thinking, product development, and execution into one system proven across industries.
Refined through years of leading innovation work, it transforms scattered input into focused, high-return growth.
Start with the Signal Wedge: Test Early Visibility in 30 MInutes
One conversation + one memo. See if closing visibility gaps on your top risk changes anything - zero risk, no tools or headcount needed.
In complex businesses, early signals of drift (workarounds, small delays, repeated questions) often take weeks or months to reach leadership. By then, options narrow and firefighting begins.
The Signal Wedge is our simplest entry point:
- 30-minute guided conversation focused on one high-stakes situation you're accountable for.
- Maps where those earliest signs appear first and current lag effect to you.
- Surfaces how the organization compensates in the meantime.
- Explores if 30–60 days earlier visibility would change timing, scope, effort, or reveal upsides.
- Delivers a neutral one-page memo with clear insights, no prescriptions, no follow-up pressure.
If it would make a difference, discuss optional low-risk validation (short sprint to confirm signals).
If not, we stop cleanly.
Perfect for presidents, owners, or PE leaders who think: "I wish I'd known sooner."
The Problem:
Top-down strategy often overlooks the friction that kills efficiency.
Frontline insights stay hidden, chaotic, or misaligned.
Carlson’s Law:
“Top-down innovation tends to be orderly but dumb. Bottom-up innovation tends to be chaotic but smart.”
The real challenge is turning that chaotic, smart frontline knowledge into aligned, profitable execution.
The Cost of Missed Innovation
If less than 30% of your revenue over the past three years comes from new innovations, you have an innovation gap, and it’s costing you.
Most companies and VC portfolios struggle to convert ideas into outcomes.
Executives launch top-down initiatives that sound good in meetings but fail in the field.
Meanwhile, practical ideas from frontline teams rarely surface or align with strategy.
That disconnect between strategy and execution stalls growth, wastes time, and kills momentum.
Innovation becomes noise instead of results.
We Build Focused Innovation Engines
Idea IQ installs structured systems that:
No chaos. No wasted ideas. Just disciplined, profitable innovation.
The Result:
You don’t just generate more ideas.
You build a repeatable, revenue-generating innovation engine, the kind that creates real exits, scalable growth, and long-term differentiation.
Our Process: From Insight to Impact
Step 1: Diagnose the Gaps
We audit your current systems to map where ideas live, die, or stall, exposing bottlenecks and missed ROI.
Step 2: Install the System
We build a structured, stage-gate innovation funnel, coach leaders to guide idea flow, and install simple tracking tools for repeatable execution.
Step 3: Deliver Results
We help test, implement, and scale your highest-potential ideas, turning momentum into measurable growth across your business or portfolio.
Services Targeted at Organizations (Discounted Packages for some situations)

Strategic Alignment Workshops. Not ready for full engagement? Start with our free 30-min Signal Wedge diagnostic.
30-minute conversation + one-page memo to map early signal visibility and test implications. Optional paid validation sprint ($3,000–$8,000) if pursued.

Innovation Readiness Audit. A rapid diagnostic that reveals where innovation flow breaks down and ROI is lost. You receive a concise report showing missed opportunities, capability gaps, and specific actions to unlock measurable gains immediately.

Insight to Impact Engine. Our flagship engagement. Over 12 weeks, we run a full innovation audit, align strategy, coach leaders, and install your structured innovation system. You’ll leave with a live idea-capture funnel, prototype tests in motion, and an ROI dashboard that keeps producing growth long after we’re gone.
We’d love to hear about your goals, challenges, and growth ambitions.
Every conversation starts with understanding where ideas live in your organization—and where they’re getting lost.
When you reach out, you’ll connect directly with our innovation team. We’ll review your inquiry, schedule a short discovery call, and explore how Idea IQ’s structured systems can unlock measurable ROI from your frontline ideas.
Ready to turn hidden ideas into real growth? Whether you’re leading a VC portfolio or scaling a single company, it starts here. Email us: innovate@idea-iq.com
Please reach us at innovate@idea-iq.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
The Signal Wedge is our simplest, no-risk entry point: a single 30-minute guided conversation + one-page memo. It maps where early signals of drift (e.g., frontline workarounds, small delays) appear first, how long they currently take to reach leadership, and whether 30–60 days earlier visibility would change decision timing, scope, effort, or reveal upside opportunities. It’s designed for leaders who often think, “I wish I’d known sooner,” before issues hit KPIs, create reconstruction burden, or reach the board/financiers. No tools, headcount, or process changes required. If it matters, discuss an optional short validation sprint; if not, we stop cleanly. This is purely for rapid testing and real feedback—not a full system or transformation.
The full engagement installs a complete, sustainable innovation engine (idea capture, strategic alignment, stage-gate governance, ROI tracking) for long-term compounding growth. The Signal Wedge is just the minimal first step: one focused diagnostic to test whether earlier visibility into key signals would make a material difference in one high-stakes situation. It’s free (or introductory) with no obligation, and serves as a low-risk way to experience our approach before considering deeper work.
An innovation engine is a repeatable system that captures, filters, and executes high-value ideas from within your organization. At Idea IQ, we align those ideas with your growth strategy to deliver measurable ROI.
We install structured innovation systems that connect frontline insights to portfolio strategy, scaling innovation, and improving EBITDA across holdings
If less than 30 % of your revenue comes from innovations developed in the last three years, you have an innovation gap. We audit and close that gap using our stage-gate and ROI-tracking process.
Our 90-Day Engagement installs a full innovation engine in 12 weeks, producing measurable ROI by quarter-end.
Most consultants deliver reports. We install systems that your own team can sustain innovation that compounds long after we leave.
Because 80 % of profitable innovations come from the people closest to the work.
We install systems that channel their insight upward—so leadership strategy stays grounded in reality and growth compounds faster.
Psychological value is when people feel valued for contributing.
When employees know their ideas are heard and acted on, idea flow accelerates, burnout drops, and ROI rises.
We design innovation systems that make value creation emotional as well as financial.
We don’t rely on consultants or new headcount.
Your team runs the system.
We embed daily habits, digital tools, and metrics that keep idea flow alive long after we leave.
Change often disengages people.
Our systems rebuild trust by making innovation the language of progress—turning disruption into alignment and forward motion.
Clients typically recover 20–35 % in lost innovation ROI within the first year.
Beyond numbers, they see energized teams, clearer priorities, and measurable growth that continues compounding each quarter.
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