How to allocate resources for innovation

Use scorecards to allow people to see the logic behind your strategic choices and lay out what good looks like for your strategy.

• In a meeting, have everyone identify two initiatives or ideas they were involved with developing recently (one which was a good strategic fit and the other that they'd have preferred not to be involved in.)
• Identify and document up to five factors that made the difference between the two.
• Identify common themes that emerge.
• Score a few actual projects.

You should now have a set of statements that define what good and bad look like.