https://myles-innovation.com/tags/innovation-consulting/Recent content in Innovation Consulting on MYLES — Strategy & Innovation ConsultingHugoenSun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://myles-innovation.com/blog/product-strategy-consultants-when/Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://myles-innovation.com/blog/product-strategy-consultants-when/<h2 id="the-honest-answer-no-consultant-will-give-you">The Honest Answer No Consultant Will Give You</h2> <p>Most articles about whether to hire product strategy consultants are written by product strategy consultants. That tells you something about their objectivity. I will give you a different answer — one that sometimes means recommending you do not hire us.</p> <p>The decision to engage external product strategy help is not primarily about capability. Most competent product organizations have capable people. The question is whether external expertise can change the outcome in a way that justifies the cost, the disruption, and the inevitable internal politics that come with outside involvement. Sometimes the answer is yes. Often it is no. The difference lies in the specific conditions your organization faces.</p>https://myles-innovation.com/blog/innovation-consulting-when-why/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://myles-innovation.com/blog/innovation-consulting-when-why/<h2 id="the-industry-that-oversells-itself">The Industry That Oversells Itself</h2> <p>Innovation consulting is one of the few professional services categories where the product being sold is often the opposite of what is delivered. Firms sell breakthrough thinking and transformational capability. They frequently deliver frameworks, workshops, and recommendations that sit in a shared drive until the next strategy cycle.</p> <p>I say this as someone who runs an innovation consulting firm. The industry has earned this skepticism, and intellectual honesty requires acknowledging it before offering any guidance on how to make better use of external innovation expertise.</p>