Kent Warren
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The Innovation Loop
A lightweight, evidence-informed framework for discovering and delivering AI-enabled products: four movements, three living records, and five rules.
Scaling Innovation Beyond a Single Team
Scale innovation with evidence-based roadshows, facilitator training, portfolio governance, and retrospectives that keep lessons flowing across your organization.
Closing the Loop: The Framework Retrospective
Run an innovation framework retrospective: private interviews, team sessions, templates, and sharing practices that turn lessons into a stronger next run.
The Handoff: Transferring Ownership
Hand off innovation prototypes with readiness criteria, gates, and knowledge transfer, so product, design, and engineering teams truly own the result.
Selling It Upward: The Executive Presentation
Win executive approval for innovation: secure a sponsor, build a persuasive narrative, communicate risk, and ask for staged funding.
Prototyping with Purpose: Turning an Approved Proposal into Evidence
Turn an approved proposal into evidence: define what your prototype must prove, build fast with AI, run sprints, win stakeholder buy-in, and...
From Idea to Approved Business Case: Building Proposals That Pass the Gate
Learn how to write an innovation business case that wins approval: a short 2-4 page proposal, build vs. buy analysis, strategic alignment,...
From Spark to Structured Opportunity
Turn raw ideas into vetted opportunities with evidence-based ideation workshops, psychological safety, portfolio horizons, stakeholder outreach, and uncertainty grading before any innovation...
Building the Team
Build an innovation team: compare team structures, balance size and diversity, define roles, recruit volunteers, choose leaders, foster psychological safety, and set...