Innovation Framework Design
Project Briefing
Aligning marketing innovation through structured executive collaboration.
We helped a multinational financial services organization design an innovation framework that enabled regional marketing leaders to align initiatives with enterprise strategy, market realities, and customer differences. What began as a learning event evolved into a facilitated innovation process that used cross-functional collaboration, structured thinking, and constructive conflict to improve marketing alignment, creativity, and strategic impact.
Client
A multinational financial services organization seeking to improve marketing innovation, strengthen cross-region collaboration, and align CMO-level initiatives with enterprise strategy.
Challenge
Regional marketing leaders needed to evaluate marketing initiatives through the filters of culture, demographics, generation, product mix, and regional market dynamics. The group included leaders with different agendas, varied levels of collaboration, and competing views on traditional versus emerging marketing approaches.
The challenge was to use these differences productively rather than suppress them. The organization needed a process that could turn conflict into constructive dialogue, improve transparency, and help CMOs develop more innovative, strategically aligned marketing initiatives within their respective markets.
Solution
AMS designed a cross-functional innovation process that paired marketing leaders who had not previously collaborated. Early sessions helped participants understand regional context, customer differences, product priorities, and operating assumptions. The group then developed strategically aligned marketing plans with definitions, goals, risks, and assumptions.
AMS used SWOT analysis, facilitated thinking groups, and idea generation sessions to test assumptions and expose gaps in diversity, transparency, and strategic alignment. The process guided CMOs toward shared vision, stronger collaboration, and a more disciplined approach to embedding innovation into marketing planning.
Benefit
The engagement improved collaboration among regional marketing leaders and increased the quality of innovation thinking across the CMO group. Leaders gained a clearer process for evaluating marketing initiatives before design, build, and launch, resulting in fewer campaigns with stronger strategic impact.
The work also surfaced capability gaps that informed future training needs. The organization developed a peer review process, a CMO strategic planning template, and a broader leadership participation model that gave marketing leaders a stronger voice in enterprise strategy.
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