Does your organizarion measure innovation and its outcomes? Is there any sort of governance over your high impact projects that are also higher risk? Does the governance you have in place empower innovation or stifle it? In this session, we will cover the topic of how organizations can measure, control and budget innovation without creating a stifling beaurocracy and while still enabling the unpredictable nature of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Since 2011, Ahi Gvirtsman has accumulated a rich experience in forming, building and running innovation programs for various types of organizations both as the manager of such programs and as a mentor to innovation managers of diverse types of organizations (corporations, municipalities, military). He personally designed, built and managed the innovation program of HP’s software division covering 20,000 employees worldwide. In his book “The PEAK innovation principles”, released in 2017, Ahi offers a common framework based on his experience that can be implemented by any type of organization in any industry as a way of turning itself into being innovation proficient. He is a 25+ year veteran of the software industry with roles ranging from large corporations to small startups and has an MSc in computer science from the Technion and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University. Currently, Ahi is the co-founder of Spyre, a company which guarantees at least a doubling of any organization’s innovation outcomes.