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See Constraints Early. Preserve Strategic Optionality.

The Innovation Performance System™ (IPS™): A governance and sensing architecture for early friction intelligence.

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About Idea IQ

More Ideas. Sharper Focus. Real Results.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

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.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

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.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

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.

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Start Small – The Signal Wedge

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."

Supercharge Your Growth

Your Best Growth Opportunities Are Often Invisible.

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:

Capture signal from your frontline teams
Align idea generation with your strategy
Challenge teams to create solutions for real priorities
Filter and prioritize for ROI
Execute reliably for measurable results.

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.

Consulting Services for VC, PE Firms and Mid-Sized Businesse

How We Build Your Innovation Engine

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.

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VC / PE Portfolio or Midsized Company Options

Services Targeted at Organizations (Discounted Packages for some situations)

Signal Wedge Diagnostic

Starting at: $0.00

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 Performance Audit

Starting at: $4,500

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.

90-Day Engagement

Starting at: $20,000

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.

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Let’s Build Your Innovation Engine

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.

Lets Start the Conversation

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at innovate@idea-iq.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

What is a Sginal Wedge?

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.

How is the Signal Wedge different from your full innovation engagement?

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.

What is an innovation engine?

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.

How does Idea IQ help VC, PE firms and mid-size companies?

We install structured innovation systems that connect frontline insights to portfolio strategy, scaling innovation, and improving EBITDA across holdings

What is an innovation gap?

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.

How fast will we see results?

Our 90-Day Engagement installs a full innovation engine in 12 weeks, producing measurable ROI by quarter-end.

What makes Idea IQ different from other Utah consulting firms?

Most consultants deliver reports. We install systems that your own team can sustain innovation that compounds long after we leave.

Why does Idea IQ focus on frontline ideas instead of executive brainstorming?

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.

What is “psychological value,” and why does it matter for innovation?

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.

How does Idea IQ make innovation sustainable after the engagement ends?

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.

How does Idea IQ help during times of change or uncertainty?

Change often disengages people.
Our systems rebuild trust by making innovation the language of progress—turning disruption into alignment and forward motion.

What results do companies usually see?

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.

See Constraints Early. Preserve Strategic Optionality.

About Idea IQ

More Ideas. Sharper Focus. Real Results.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Supercharge Your Growth

Start Small – The Signal Wedge

Supercharge Your Growth

Your Best Growth Opportunities Are Often Invisible.

Consulting Services for VC, PE Firms and Mid-Sized Businesse

How We Build Your Innovation Engine

Menu / Price List

VC / PE Portfolio or Midsized Company Options

Signal Wedge Diagnostic

Innovation Performance Audit

90-Day Engagement

Contact Us

Drop us a line!

Let’s Build Your Innovation Engine

Lets Start the Conversation

Frequently Asked Questions

Idea IQ Blog

See Constraints Early. Preserve Strategic Optionality.

About Idea IQ

More Ideas. Sharper Focus. Real Results.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Built for Your Team. Sustainable After We Leave.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

We Don’t Just Capture More Ideas. We Deliver Better Ones.

Supercharge Your Growth

Start Small – The Signal Wedge

Supercharge Your Growth

Your Best Growth Opportunities Are Often Invisible.

Consulting Services for VC, PE Firms and Mid-Sized Businesse

How We Build Your Innovation Engine

Menu / Price List

VC / PE Portfolio or Midsized Company Options

Signal Wedge Diagnostic

Innovation Performance Audit

90-Day Engagement

Contact Us

Drop us a line!

Let’s Build Your Innovation Engine

Lets Start the Conversation

Frequently Asked Questions

Idea IQ Blog

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