However, after going to work in industry, I couldn’t believe how many products I helped get started and how few made it to market. ![]() Bright eyed and bushy tailed, I went to school for engineering and did innovation research on how people and processes drive the best solutions and outcomes. Inspired by shower radios, bright colored Macs and PDAs, I wanted to build the next big thing. ![]() I started my career as an innovator who wanted to change the world. In my recent valley of death webinar, I talked about how a portfolio approach solves this problem and how leaders and innovators both play a critical role. Ideally, leadership invests smaller dollar amounts into many, many early phase projects with the expectation that most of these will fail, leaving more resources for project development further down the pipeline. This is accomplished by placing lots of bets - think thousands for an organization as big as the Air Force. In short, portfolio innovation is an approach that mitigates innovation risk and focuses on long-term strategies. We’ve been laying the groundwork for the Air Force portfolio solution for almost a year now, working with them to enhance their visibility into projects and their reporting capabilities. This third phase really gets to the meat of why I launched Productable in the first place: We get to build out a beginning-to-end portfolio solution. ![]() Air Force, bringing us to $3.2 million in total Air Force funding. We’re so excited to announce today that Productable launched the third phase of our partnership with the U.S.
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