Three-fourths of companies are consistently disappointed in their innovation results, according to global surveys of executives. But a minority of organizations—what I call the Innovation Vanguard–recognize the need for change if their results are to improve. Put simply, if good ideas don’t get hatched, they won’t get launched. The vanguard organizations, 23 of which we studied for the book Driving Growth Through Innovation, create stronger idea factories by cultivating the conditions whereby “happy accidents” are more likely to occur. The vanguards are, in essence, reinventing inventiveness. They are paying much more attention to the front end of innovation where possibilities first come to light. And they are managing these notions in vastly different ways so that large quantities of ideas enter the funnel, get considered, eventually fill the pipeline and eventually emerge as new products, processes, solutions and business models