Innovation Portfolio is refreshing and fantastically provocative. It clarifies behaviors that hurt culture and clarifies habits that shape a disciplined and empathetic culture.
-Line Karkov, business analyst and "Yes And" evangelist
Innovation Portfolio is a recipe to improve your team engagement, morale, and project success rate. The tools provide a new, clean baseline for team expectations. Without a robust portfolio of documentation, you waste time, money, and resources. I'm excited to see how Five Verbs will give my team clarity, confidence, and courage to reshape our culture.
-Siu Chu, business systems analyst and IIBA chapter officer
In Five Verbs, Robert offers an opportunity to re-think not just what we are doing, but why we are doing it. The simplicity of Five Verbs keeps us focused - ruthlessly focused - on doing only what matters. This clarity minimizes wasteful, churn-inducing, ambiguous labor. Elegance elevates brainpower from the mundane into strategic creativity.
-Ben Kleinman, strategy and change management consultant
Many great books "go deep," and a few "go wide," but Innovation Portfolio manages to do both while remaining entertainingly readable, immediately practical, and wonderfully innovative, as you'd expect. For innovation organizations averse to documentation, this book will change your mind.
-Andrew Sykes, professor on sales, habits, and trust
Innovation Portfolio is a breath of fresh air. "Hey, it's Agile," has too often been a rationale for reactive decisions and lack of accountability. Snyder's combination of ruthless discipline and tangible empathy is the right formula for change agents wanting to stop the pain of failing programs, create better business outcomes, and improve the employee experience.
-Rob Asen, consulting practice executive and culture champion
This book is a revolutionary guide for every team that has ever felt bogged down by meetings and emails. Innovation Portfolio brilliantly elucidates the transformative power of discipline, empathy, and attention to detail for teams to overcome the VUCA-ness of today's world. A must-read for those ready to shift from the chaos of VUCA to a world of elegance and efficiency.
-Oge Nwachukwu, project manager, business analyst, change manager and organizational transformer
Innovation Portfolio overcame my initial skepticism that I was reading about another methodology the world didn't really need. I felt advocacy for the Five Verbs concept the moment I read it. Robert convincingly articulates why appropriate, effective, and durable documentation is more than a necessity. It provides the necessary professional courtesy and kindness for people-centred change. Five Verbs is a beautifully simple set of actions to curate documentation assets and promote transparency, alignment, and impact. This book is a must-read for experienced and emerging innovation professionals.
-Jamie Toyne, founder and CEO of Herd Consulting, a specialist business analysis consultancy
