Senior innovation & AI leadership, part-time.
Most organizations don’t need a full-time chief innovation officer. They need senior judgment, applied at the right moments, by someone who has shipped real things. Fractional engagements deliver exactly that: defined scope, defined cadence, no permanent overhead.
The practice is led by Cory Nation — digital-thread work at Rolls-Royce, a Tesla/Bridgestone patent, GE Black Belt, Butler University.
From “what should we actually do with AI” to systems running in production. Advisory engagements assess where AI genuinely earns its place in your operation; strategy work turns that into a sequenced plan; execution engagements build and ship it. You can enter at any of the three.
An embedded innovation leader inside your organization on a part-time cadence — working your pipeline of opportunities, pressure-testing ideas before they consume budget, and building your team’s own innovation muscle so the capability stays when the engagement ends.
Operating-model and process transformation grounded in engineering discipline: define the current state honestly, target the constraint, and change the fewest things that produce the largest result. Subtraction counts as progress here.
A clear-eyed digital roadmap — platforms, data, and build-vs-buy decisions — scoped to what your organization can actually absorb, not what a vendor wants to sell you.
Track record → Credibility
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