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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 ideal innovation portfolio ratio for your company?

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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

This book is a worthwhile, albeit high-level, treatment of the topic with a rich set of descriptions and examples. The key functions of the system the author describes and gives examples of are: Search – uncovering novel and valuable problems and solutions, Synthesis – integrating diverse streams of ideas into coherent business concept, and.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

January 2012: Although I planned to fully develop the Challenge Toolkit in 2012, it got sidetracked by other ideas that launched that year, including my 30-day Innovation Challenge , new branding, a new website, and a Personality Poker® revamp. January 2019: I hired a developmental editor who reviewed what I had written.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above. Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above. Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above. Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.