Measuring Innovation: Making the Invisible Visible in Organizations
🧭 Measuring Innovation: Making the Invisible Visible in Modern Organizations
Innovation is no longer a side project. It’s core business. But while most companies claim to prioritize innovation, few can answer the simplest question: Is it actually working?
In a world driven by experimentation, transformation, and speed, relying on traditional KPIs to measure innovation is like using a ruler to track the wind. We need new tools. New mindsets. And above all, new ways of seeing.
How do we measure the performance of an innovation program—not just in outputs, but in outcomes? How can we distinguish motion from momentum, activity from impact? And how can innovation leaders build credibility in the boardroom by speaking the language of metrics, without losing the soul of experimentation?
📊 This Month’s Session
We’re thrilled to welcome Dan Toma as our guest speaker.
Dan is an internationally recognized innovation strategist and author of Innovation Accounting and The Corporate Startup. Coming from an entrepreneurial background, Dan has spent the past decade helping some of the world’s largest companies—like Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Bayer, and Deutsche Telekom—build measurable, sustainable innovation capabilities.
Through his work with both corporate giants and national governments, Dan has championed a new approach to innovation leadership: one that balances creativity with accountability and puts learning at the heart of progress.
In this session, Dan will help us explore how innovation teams can shift from vanity metrics to value-driven insights—and why building a performance model for innovation is essential for any organization that wants to stay relevant in the long term.
🗓️ Agenda:
🔹 Welcome & Introductions – Meet fellow professionals and set the stage.
🔹 Group Conversation – What does success in innovation really look like?
🔹 Talk & Insights from Dan Toma – Practical ideas and frameworks for measuring innovation.
🔹 Q&A and Takeaways – Ask your questions and leave with useful next steps.
📌 Join us for this engaging roundtable and walk away with practical tools to turn innovation from a buzzword into something you can actually measure—and truly lead.