Steve Donaghy

Innovation and Transformation Consulting

Innovation Strategist & Senior Director (Interim, Advisory, Fractional)

Innovation is a strategic priority for most organisations; turning it into consistent business impact is much harder.

With 35 years in global technology services, including senior global R&D leadership roles, more than 20 years focused specifically on innovation strategy and its successful application in real organisations and delivery of large, high-pressure, award-winning transformation programmes, I am recognised by CEOs, CIOs and CTOs as ensuring innovation strategies have the highest probability of delivering real change, not just activity, in line with strategic goals.

My work typically centres on four areas:

Innovation, Corporate & AI Strategy

Having worked with hundreds of corporate innovation strategies, I’ve seen clear patterns in what makes the best so powerful. I will share the lessons, frameworks, and insights that have proven to make innovation strategies succeed in practice.

Best Practice: what it means for you

With the best blend of strong practice for your organisation’s culture, market, and goals in place, you can focus energy on informed creativity: identifying, investing in, and delivering the best innovations at speed. I will share what I have seen consistently turn best practice into measurable impact.

Investment, prioritisation

My passion for creativity will never leave me and my earlier career of delivery has developed my approach to innovation: ideate crazily, develop you selection to be the best, deliver fast.  Well-informed teams, & AI, can generate ideas, but separating meaningful opportunities from the crowd remains one of innovation’s greatest challenges.  This has been a focus of mine. Reach out for more on tested approaches for identifying the best bets.

Delivery & Speed to Market

With the strongest ideas being selected, the focus turns to fast delivery and rapid validation.  My history of understanding delivery challenges has fed into my views on the importance of validation at speed and feedback towards strategic goals. I will be happy to share more on this.

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