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Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

One of industry standard answers comes from research by Deloitte Partners Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, in their groundbreaking 2012 article in Harvard Business Review: Managing your innovation portfolio. But what does a well-balanced innovation portfolio look like? So what is the best new ratio for companies. Well, that depends.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Creative Construction , by Gary Pisano at Harvard Business School, is such a book, in part due to the preeminence and influence of Harvard in the conversations about innovation that have been taking place since Christenson’s ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’ was published in 1997. Selection – focusing on a subset of opportunities.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Another example I like to present is Nintendo, originally a purveyor of handmade playing cards, attempted to enter a number of new markets due to the fact that consumer interest in playing cards had decreased substantially. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

Due to having an experience of running such workshops, we managed to develop the canvas and compiled extensive guidelines, use cases, and success stories that can serve as innovation initiatives in practice as a ready-to-use toolkit that is easy to adopt. . 2012), This Is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases , BIS Publishers.

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

What is idea management? Top management world over is now running helter-skelter demanding innovation. Another definition hinting at its pivotal role in innovation is this: “Idea management is facilitating the flow from idea generation to idea conversion in the innovation value chain” (Hansen & Birkinshaw, 2007).

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H.