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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

Assess each of your opportunities using two categories: External Environment and Internal Capabilities. For each of these two categories, determine up to three specific variables that are the most important success criteria for your organization. Customers — How certain are we that customers will want the product?

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Work Backward to Drive Innovation Forward

Leapfrogging

Here’s how Amazon defines the ideal customer experience and then works backward to create it. The best business strategies focus on meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service.

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The law of diffusion of innovation

Idea to Value

Any company planning on bringing a new innovative solution to market must accept the fact that not every customer will be willing to buy it immediately. There will always be certain target customers who are more resistant to trying out new ideas than others. The latter 50% are more resistant.

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How Amazon Execs use a 4-Step Innovation Process Template to Create Breakthrough Products

Leapfrogging

The best business strategies focus on meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates. Step 3: Work backwards from the ideal customer experience.

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How Amazon Execs use a 4-Step Innovation Process Template to Create Breakthrough Products

Leapfrogging

The best business strategies focus on meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates. Step 3: Work backwards from the ideal customer experience.

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The 14 Best Blogs for Small Business Owners

CMOE

There is no shortage of small business blogs out there. The CMOE team is attempting to make the process easier by highlighting the 14 best blogs for small business owners. We encourage you to carve out time to gain valuable insights from these blogs: 1. The blog offers numerous articles on each of those topics.

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Understanding the innovation options in your business

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing a series of blog posts to document some of the things I've learned in innovation along the way, over 15 years of leading corporate innovation work. So far I've written several blogs, the first about the importance of d efining a why and a how for innovation , the second about the importance of an idea sponsor.