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

Idea to Value

One of the best ways to assess what proportions your company should allocate to different types of innovation projects is by looking at your current and desired innovation portfolio. Some companies, like technology companies which need to produce new offerings more quickly, might have a ratio that is more like 45-40-15.

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

Idea to Value

Most companies are not really aware of all of the innovation projects they are working on. Here is the original image of the Ambition Matrix from the article: Original Image of the Ambition Matrix from HBR 2012. Let alone which project mix they should be working on.

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. It is also such a book because it offers a full-throated, positive argument for the case that large companies can be innovative – and in big ways.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

It feels like the world is moving faster than ever, which means that companies in every sector have to prioritise agile innovation or risk becoming defunct. If it seems like many of the companies that you knew from childhood have vanished, it’s because they have. They filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

They described 11 out of 1,435 companies that had shown the highest level of success over the decades. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The world’s most popular media company, Facebook, creates no content.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

They described 11 out of 1,435 companies that had shown the highest level of success over the decades. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The world’s most popular media company, Facebook, creates no content.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

They described 11 out of 1,435 companies that had shown the highest level of success over the decades. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The world’s most popular media company, Facebook, creates no content.