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Chain Reaction Lab Episode 6 Designing Innovation Handoffs and Pipeline Flow

Episode 6: Designing the Operating Model – From Scouting to Scale In this episode, we go one layer deeper into corporate innovation and focus on the operating model. Not org charts, not ideas, but how innovation actually moves from an idea to something running in the business. Most innovation systems don’t break because of bad ideas. They break because handoffs fail. Innovation is a pipeline, not a team. When a single team tries to own innovation end-to-end, the result is overloaded teams, endless pilots, and no clear ownership at scale. Each stage of the pipeline optimizes for something different, and if those stages aren’t designed deliberately, work gets stuck in between. We walk through the core stages: Scouting and sensing: identifying real problems and separating signal from noise PoCs and pilots: reducing uncertainty and forcing decisions, not just surviving Transition to deployment: transferring ownership into real operations A key focus of this episode is why scale is not a reward, but a transfer of risk. Budget, accountability, and decision rights must move together, or adoption stalls. This is also where many organizations benefit from a deployment or transition team that sits between innovation and the business to stabilize solutions and enable real handoff. We also cover why dotted-line functions like legal, IT, security, and procurement are not gatekeepers, but risk translators, and why bringing them in early is part of good operating-model design. This episode builds directly on Episode 5 and sets up Episode 7, where we’ll zoom out to ecosystem design and how to work with startups and partners without creating noise or false hope.