Whether you’re a professional innovator or someone driving innovation to grow your business, chances are you need more support to get projects delivered to market.Question: Does your innovation business model catalyze your goals or crush them?When You Have To Deliver, You Learn To DeliverIn 1999, Jim Collins wrote a brilliant piece in the Harvard Business Review, “Turning Goals Into Results: The Power Of Catalytic Mechanisms.” In it he addressed the problem that many managers face within their organization: they have a big goal but lack the organizational focus and courage to achieve it. Collins offered catalytic mechanisms as a potential solution. By his definition, a Catalytic Mechanism is “the crucial link between objectives and performance, [the] galvanizing devices that translate lofty aspirations into concrete reality.”His article provided some poignant examples that span a wide range of industries. For this discussion, I’ll break his thesis down into a simple analogy: …