Opinion

January 19, 2021

How to have a second career as an innovation consultant

Don’t make these common mistakes.


A few weeks ago I found myself interviewing someone for the role of innovation consultant. They were experienced — they had started investment funds, acquired companies, and launched new business units — but they were struggling with one of the basics of consulting: describing all this in tangible steps and relating it to outcomes. It was at this point I fully realised how different the mindsets are between the inhouse expert and the consultant.

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