The Innovator's Compass

Most organizations don't have an innovation problem. They have a measurement problem.

Walk into any boardroom and ask how innovative the company is. The answer will be confident-patents filed, hackathons run, R&D spend as a share of revenue-and it will tell you almost nothing. Innovation without measurement is an act of faith.

Drawing on three decades inside R&D labs, innovation teams, and boardrooms across two continents, and on doctoral research into how organizations remember, Yann Rousselot-Pailley makes one disciplined claim: an organization can measure its innovation only to the degree that it remembers it.

From that principle, the book builds a complete, working system to measure the Return on Innovation Investment: the ROI² Scorecard, the Four Capitals of Innovation, and an AI operating model that captures institutional memory at scale. It closes with a 90-day journey, a full indicator catalogue, an executive dashboard blueprint, and for government entities, a policy-level tool.

Part diagnosis, part field manual, The Innovator's Compass gives innovation leaders, R&D directors, chief innovation officers, and executives the instrument they've been missing: a way to make innovation measurable, memorable, and defensible.