Most large companies have decades of infrastructure built around protecting the core business. Almost none have equivalent discipline built around renewing it.

Gary Hamel called this the single biggest reason companies fail — not a shortage of ideas or talent, but the systematic bias toward defending “what is” at the expense of “what might be.”

An innovation portfolio is the discipline that corrects that bias. It separates core business optimisation from new growth bets, allocates resources across different time horizons, and gives leadership a structured way to manage uncertainty without avoiding it.

This guide shows you how to build one.

Download it to understand what Innovation Portfolio Management involves, why most companies struggle to implement it, and what it takes to make it stick.