Your Innovation Ideas
Don't Die Because They're Bad
They die because they take too long to prove. Build working prototypes in weeks, not quarters. Show executives demonstrated ROI before asking for the budget.
Why 70% of Innovation Initiatives Fail
Not because of bad ideas. Because by the time you can prove them, the moment has passed.
9-12 Months to Validate
- 📋 Month 1-2: Innovation committee approval
- 💼 Month 3-4: IT architecture review
- 📄 Month 5-6: Vendor RFP process
- 💰 Month 7-8: Budget approval cycles
- 🔨 Month 9-10: Agency builds prototype
- 🧪 Month 11: User testing
- 📊 Month 12: Present to executives
Reality: By month 12, market conditions changed or executive priorities shifted
2-4 Weeks to Validate
- 💡 Week 1: Build working prototype
- 👥 Week 2: Test with 20-30 real users
- 📊 Week 3: Gather data, refine concept
- 🎯 Week 4: Present to executives with proof
- ✅ Result: Demonstrated ROI with real data
- 💰 Now: Request big budget with confidence
Validated concept with real data before asking for $500K+ budget
Death by Committee
Your innovation concept spends 6 months getting "socialized" across stakeholders. By the time it's approved, the opportunity is gone.
IT Bottleneck
IT is backlogged 12-18 months with core systems. Innovation experiments are "nice to have" but never prioritized.
Procurement Hell
Vendor RFPs take 6+ months. Legal reviews, security assessments, contract negotiations. Fast experimentation is impossible.
Budget Chicken-and-Egg
Executives say "show me proof before I give you $500K." But you can't build proof without budget. Catch-22.
Executive Skepticism
Execs have seen too many PowerPoint visions that never ship. They want to SEE it, USE it, not imagine it from slides.
Innovation Theater
Your innovation lab produces whitepapers and trend reports. Real products require "cross-functional alignment" that never happens.
What if you could prove concepts before asking for the budget?
The Conference Demo That Validated a Market
Wine Inventory Management System
Validated at Industry Conference
The Traditional Approach Would Have Been:
An entrepreneur had an idea for a wine inventory management app for wineries. Traditional validation path: spend $50K on market research, build an MVP for $150K, launch and hope wineries actually want it. Total: $200K and 6 months before learning if the market exists.
What He Did Instead:
- ✓ Built a working demo with AllSpark in 3 days
- ✓ Set up iPads at his booth at a wine industry conference
- ✓ Let winery owners actually USE the working app
- ✓ Collected real feedback and watched how they interacted with it
The Outcome:
50+ wineries signed up for early access in one weekend. He validated the market, refined his pitch, and identified which features mattered most to customers. All before committing to production development.
The working demo WAS the pitch deck. No PowerPoint. No promises. Just "here, use it and tell me what you think."
💡 For Innovation Leaders:
Imagine presenting your innovation concept to the board with 50 real customer signups instead of a market sizing slide. That's the power of demonstrating vs. documenting.
Stop Placing One Big Bet
Test multiple innovation concepts in parallel. Let data pick the winners.
The Innovation Portfolio Approach
Traditional: One Big Bet
- • Pick one concept (politically safe)
- • Spend 9-12 months proving it
- • Invest $500K-$1M before validation
- • If it fails, entire year is lost
- • Conservative choices win (innovation loses)
Result: Innovation theater, not real innovation
With AllSpark: Test Multiple Bets
- • Test 8-10 concepts in parallel
- • Validate each in 2-4 weeks
- • Low investment per validation
- • Kill losers fast, double down on winners
- • Bold ideas can be tested safely
Result: Real innovation, backed by data
💡 The Math:
Test 10 concepts quickly with low cost each. If even ONE proves viable and gets funded, you've justified your entire innovation budget. Traditional approach: Bet $500K on one concept and hope it works.
The 4-Week Innovation Sprint
Build
Build working prototype. Real features, real UI, real database. Looks and feels like production software.
Validate
Test with 20-30 real users (customers or employees). Watch them use it. Gather feedback. Measure engagement.
Refine
Iterate based on feedback. Adjust features, fix pain points, validate assumptions. All at prototype speed.
Present
Present to executives with working demo, real user data, validated ROI. Get buy-in for full build.
"But Why Not Just..."
Why AllSpark beats every alternative for corporate innovation
"Why not use our internal innovation lab?"
The Problem: Most corporate innovation labs are great at trend reports, workshops, and whitepapers. But when it comes to building working software? That still requires IT, vendors, or months of meetings. Innovation theater vs. innovation execution.
With AllSpark: YOU build working prototypes. No dependency on lab resources. Turn your innovation lab into an innovation factory that ships real products, not just reports.
"Why not hire an agency to build an MVP?"
The Problem: Agencies charge $150K-$300K for MVPs, take 4-6 months, and require extensive procurement. Each iteration costs another $50K. You're locked into their timeline.
With AllSpark: Build prototypes yourself, iterate daily instead of monthly, keep knowledge in-house. When the concept proves out, THEN bring in agencies for scale.
"Why not wait for IT capacity?"
The Problem: IT is backlogged 12-18 months. Innovation experiments are "nice to have" but never prioritized. By the time IT has capacity, your opportunity is gone.
With AllSpark: Validate NOW with a working prototype. When it's proven, IT builds the production version with confidence. No wasted cycles on unvalidated ideas.
"Why not use Figma mockups?"
The Problem: Executives have seen too many beautiful mockups that never ship. They want to USE the product, not imagine it. Mockups can't validate technical feasibility or real workflows.
With AllSpark: Build working software that executives can actually use. "Here, use it" beats "imagine if we built this" every single time.
The Innovation Leader Superpower
⚡ Test 10x More Concepts
Validate 10 innovation concepts in the time it used to take to validate 1. More experiments mean higher chance of finding real winners.
💰 Prove ROI Before Big Budget
Walk into the budget meeting with real user data, not market sizing slides. De-risk your innovation investment with demonstrated ROI.
🎯 Bypass Corporate Bureaucracy
Build and validate prototypes without IT approval, vendor RFPs, or procurement cycles. Move at startup speed within corporate structure.
📊 Show, Don't Tell
Give executives a login. Let them use the working prototype on their phone. Real demonstrations beat PowerPoint presentations every time.
The Innovation Velocity Transformation
What changes when you can test concepts 10x faster
Test 10-20 concepts per year instead of 2-3. Higher volume means finding more winners.
2-4 weeks to validated prototype instead of 9-12 months through traditional process.
Real user feedback and usage data instead of opinions and market research reports.
The Real Impact:
Innovation Throughput
- • From 3 validations per year to 20
- • Portfolio approach: test many, scale winners
- • Kill bad ideas in weeks, not months
- • More shots on goal = more successes
Career Impact
- • Prove innovation function value with metrics
- • Show executives working prototypes, not slides
- • Protect and grow innovation budget
- • Be the innovation leader who ships
Stop Pitching Innovation.
Start Demonstrating It.
Join innovation leaders who are proving concepts before asking for budgets, testing 10x more ideas, and finding real winners.
Design Partners get hands-on support validating their first innovation concept