October 6, 2026: CIOReview has named Calibo “Enterprise Innovation Sandbox of the Year 2026” and featured the company as the cover story of its October 2026 print edition. The story, “Making Enterprise Innovation Work in the Real World,” features CEO Scott Sandschafer on the cover.
The recognition highlights how Calibo’s Business Innovation Sandbox provides enterprises with a governed innovation environment designed around production-relevant constraints. Business and technology teams can develop and validate ideas within the guardrails IT defines, without rebuilding the conditions for innovation each time.
Drawing on Scott’s experience as CIO at Novartis and earlier at Chrysler, the cover story explores why enterprise innovation so often stalls. The cause is rarely a lack of tools, technology or talent. More often, it is the setup and coordination required before meaningful work can begin. The story also explains how Calibo addresses that gap through a connected approach that brings together:
- Business Innovation Methodology, which starts with the desired business outcome
- Business Innovation Sandbox, a governed environment for developing and validating use cases
- AI-Ready Data, including the Minimum Viable Data approach for establishing the trusted, governed, and business-owned data a use case needs
- AI Expertise & Enterprise Enablement, including Calibo AI Innovation Experts and Academy-trained talent
- Path to Business Outcomes, providing a controlled route from validated work toward production and enterprise use
“Teams spend more time answering, ‘How do we innovate?’ than ‘How do we execute this idea?’
– Scott Sandschafer, CEO at Calibo
The story also covers two customer outcomes. An agricultural producer defined its operating model within weeks after internal estimates had projected more than a year of groundwork. A biotechnology company implemented dozens of governed pipelines and data products in roughly half the expected time.
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