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Innovation management system · ISO 56001-aligned

A management system that makes innovation deliver, again and again.

A consultant can find a constraint once. The lasting value is your own people finding the next one, and the one after, with governance that decides what gets funded, reviewed and stopped. We set up that system with your leadership, aligned with ISO 56001, run its first cycles with your team, and hand it over.

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Which sounds like you?

1 hour with a founder. Bring what innovation must deliver; no preparation needed.

ISO 56001 Lead AuditorNational Innovation Award assessors, appointed by NIAISO 56001 baseline assessments for listed and state enterprises

More ideas went in, and little reached the P&L. What was missing was a decision: who funds, reviews and stops.
Starts with
An hour with a founder, then an ISO 56001 Baseline Assessment
Typical length
Agreed from the baseline, by maturity, scope and whether certification is included
You keep
An in-house team and the system it runs, with named owners

Organizations we have worked with

Past clients, listed for reference. We do not link any case to any organization listed here.

What keeps leaders up at night

Which sounds like you?

Pick the one closest to yours: the worry, the usual answer and what comes back, and where we would start.

Only 12% of companies have a strong link between business and innovation strategy, in BCG’s 2024 survey of more than 1,000 innovation executives. Source

“We fund twenty innovation projects a year. I can’t tell the board which three matter, and two that died last year are back with new names.”

The usual answerWhat comes back

  • Set up an innovation committee“Another meeting? The ExCom already meets every week.”
  • Increase the innovation budget“Show us what the last budget returned first.”

And the board still asks where the next growth engine is.

Where we would start

We usually find projects chosen without shared criteria, and nobody with the authority to stop one. We start with decision rights: who funds, reviews, pauses and stops work, and on what evidence.

System element: Governance and decision rightsWhat we establish

Worries and replies are written in a leader’s voice to describe each situation. They are composites of what we hear, not quotes from named clients.

From one result to a capability

What we do once, your team learns to do every cycle.

The same way of finding constraints that our consultants use, built into your governance and your people.

Transformation Blueprint

We find the constraint and redesign around it.

One result, delivered with your team, by our consultants.

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Innovation Management System

Your own team does it, every cycle.

With governance that funds, reviews and stops the work, and habits that make it the normal way to decide.

Hire a consultant, and you get one answer. Build the team, and the answers keep coming.

What the system gives you

  • Innovation tied to corporate priorities
  • Leaders who know which decisions they own
  • A visible, managed portfolio
  • Evidence that shapes investment
  • Capability that stays in-house

So results keep coming after we leave.

How it runs

From first call to a system you run.

You can stop after any step. Each one leaves you with something you can use.

  1. Week 0First conversation
  2. BaselineAssessment against ISO 56001, plan agreed
  3. Establish · run together · transferYour people run the system
  1. Step 1

    An hour with a founder

    1 hour

    You describe what innovation must contribute to the business and what stands in the way. You leave with a first view of where the system breaks down, and a straight answer on whether we are the right partner.

  2. Step 2

    The ISO 56001 Baseline Assessment

    Your system measured against the standard

    We use ISO 56001 as the assessment tool: your portfolio, decisions and routines, clause by clause, and where the system breaks. The plan, scope and criteria for handing over are agreed from it. See a sample.

    What it asks of your teamTime with the executive sponsor and the people who run innovation today, and access to the current portfolio and how its decisions were made.

  3. Step 3

    The system, run with you

    Establish · run together · transfer

    We set up the system, run its first operating cycles with your team, and step back as named owners show they can run it themselves.

Inside the engagement: three phasesEvery engagement runs in this order

  1. 01

    Establish

    • Charter, governance and decision rights
    • Portfolio structure and selection criteria
    • Process, SOPs, roles and measures
    • A prioritized implementation roadmap
  2. 02

    Run together

    • Governance and portfolio meetings, facilitated
    • Criteria applied to live initiatives
    • Sponsors and team leaders coached
    • SOPs refined where they don’t work
  3. 03

    Transfer

    • Named owners run the meetings
    • Decisions documented against criteria
    • A full cycle with less and less of us

The methods behind these stages Forward this to your leadership team: one-page summary PDF

ISO 56001 Baseline Assessment · Extract

Diversified group, 23 active innovation initiatives

Illustrative sample
23active initiatives
9not linked to a strategic priority
14without a funding decision in six months
0stopped in the past year

The portfolio is not short of ideas. It is short of decisions: nobody has the authority to stop work, so effort spreads across 23 initiatives and none gets enough to scale.

ISO 56001, clause by clause · current maturity, 1 to 5

  1. 4Context of the organization3
  2. 5Leadership2Root cause: no one holds the authority to fund, pause or stop
  3. 6Planning2
  4. 7Support3
  5. 8Operation4Where the investment went: idea campaigns, lab, pilots
  6. 9Performance evaluation1
  7. 10Improvement2

Root causeWhere everyone looked

Points of change, ranked by impact

ChangeExpected effectAgreed with
1A charter that names who funds, reviews, pauses and stops innovation workFewer initiatives, each properly fundedCEO, CFO
2A quarterly portfolio review with stop criteriaFirst stop decisions within one cycleExecutive committee
3Stage-fit indicators instead of revenue targets for early workEarly projects judged on what they have learnedFinance, innovation lead
Decision for leadership: approve the charter and hold the first portfolio reviewPage 2 of 9

What you hold after the baseline

One picture of the system, and where it breaks.

The sample is illustrative and its numbers are invented. A real review covers your portfolio, decisions and routines against ISO 56001, with the plan and the criteria for handing over agreed.

The system then establishes

  • Leadership and direction: ambition, priorities and accountability
  • Governance and decision rights: who funds, reviews and stops
  • Portfolio management: shared criteria, resources, review cadence
  • Innovation process and SOPs: from opportunity to handoff
  • Team and capability: roles, training and coaching
  • Measurement and learning: indicators that fit each stage

How you will know it works

The test is whether your people run it without us.

We step back only when these are true, and we agree them with you from the baseline.

ISO 56001 baseline assessment and implementation

Baseline assessment against the standard and support to build the system, not certification audits. Named with their permission.

  • IRPC Innovation Center
  • BAAC
  • Siam Tool Engineering
  • ACIS Professional Center
  • Orthopeasia
  • Named owners run governance and portfolio meetings.
  • Decisions are documented against agreed criteria.
  • Teams move initiatives through the agreed process.
  • Evidence, uncertainty, risk and value are reviewed consistently.
  • Management resolves normal exceptions without us.
  • The system completes a full cycle with less and less of us.
  • Your team takes a new problem from finding the constraint to a decision, without us.

Working with us

Clear lines, and a straight answer on fit.

Who owns what

We design and establish the system. You own it and keep running it.

  • Bold Group

    • Designing and establishing the system
    • Facilitating leadership decisions
    • Putting governance, portfolio, process and measurement into operation
    • Training and coaching the people who will run it
    • Aligning with ISO 56001 where relevant
    • Assessing readiness for transfer

  • Your team

    • An executive mandate and decision authority
    • Named internal owners and a team
    • Access to information and stakeholders
    • Approving roles, governance, SOPs and resources
    • Taking part in real operating cycles
    • Running the system after transfer

  • Vendors, where needed

    • Software configuration
    • Platforms and technical integration
    • Specialist implementation outside our scope
    • We can write their requirements, compare proposals and protect the approved design

One interest to declare, because this is where tools are compared: we are the local implementor of Amplify Advisor and UVOIS, two innovation management software platforms. If you choose either, implementation is a separate contract with us, declared before any comparison, not a commission from the vendor. The requirements we write are yours, and any vendor can quote against them.

When we are not the right partner

We will tell you in the first hour.
  • Certification paperwork is the only objective.
  • No executive sponsor has authority across the functions involved.
  • No internal owner or team will be allocated.
  • A software platform is being treated as the whole innovation system.

If this rules you out, tell us the outcome anyway. Another of our services may fit, and if not, we will point you to who can help.

Common questions

Questions leaders ask us.

Is this an ISO 56001 certification service?

No. We use ISO 56001 to make the system complete and disciplined, not to reduce innovation to documents. Certification is optional and your decision. We do not issue certification: an independent certification body audits and decides conformity.

Is the system a standard template?

No. It has to reflect your strategy, governance, resources, current capability and innovation ambition. ISO 56001 provides requirements; it does not remove the need for organizational design.

Do you operate the system for us?

We run the early cycles with you, not instead of you. The goal is that named internal owners run it, and we step back as they show they can.

Do you provide innovation-management software?

We do not own or sell any. Much of an innovation management system is policy, decisions and routines, and part of it may run on tools you already have; we assess that rather than assume it. We are the local implementor of Amplify Advisor and UVOIS, two innovation management software platforms; if you choose either, implementation is a separate contract with us, declared before any comparison; the requirements we write are yours, and any vendor can quote against them.

How long does it take?

It depends on maturity, scope, decision readiness, team availability, and whether certification preparation is included. The plan and the criteria for handing over are agreed from the baseline assessment, rather than promised as a universal timeline.

Start here

What must innovation contribute to your business?

Bring it to an hour with a founder. You leave with a first view of where the system breaks down, and whether a baseline assessment is worth it.

Teerasak WongpiyaCo-Founder and Managing Director

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