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Leading Innovation = Managing Uncertainty

Strategyzer Innovation

These frameworks use different dimensions that hide in plain sight, the real challenge that leaders are facing - i.e. managing uncertainty. Managing your innovation portfolio. If we take our existing product to new markets, we may know the product but we now have to manage market risk (i.e. Amazon launching AWS). desirability).

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2012 more…. Managing Distributed Innovation (Bogers). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more…. Managing Unsolicited Ideas (Alexey). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more…. Roadmapping. Crowdsourcing (Whitla).

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Model-Prioritize-Test Over the years, while this meta-process has stayed the same, many more models (Customer Factory Blueprint, Customer Forces Canvas, Traction Roadmap), prioritization tools, and testing techniques have been developed in response to chasing yet more questions: - How do you size business models? -

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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

This concrete example from May 2012, when Google acquired Motorola, illustrates the challenge in the communicated value of “intangible assets” (where patents and trademarks reside in the Balance Sheet): Google Balance Sheet, intangible assets (in millions): End of 2013 $6,066. End of 2012 $7,473. End of 2011 $1,578. billion ($2.9

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Model-Prioritize-Test Over the years, while this meta-process has stayed the same, many more models (Customer Factory Blueprint, Customer Forces Canvas, Traction Roadmap), prioritization tools, and testing techniques have been developed in response to chasing yet more questions: - How do you size business models? -

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

For example, the innovation system you design needs to reflect and implement the innovation strategy you create and be managed and used by people who embody the culture and behave in ways that will make it work well. Despite his idiosyncratic perspective, the author has managed to synthesize a comprehensive framework that is very useful.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

RIM’s strategy depended on corporate IT adoption with centralized management, control and security of the devices. At the time, there were no widely recognized market research reports, customer insights, or technology roadmaps (except perhaps inside Apple) that projected what the world might conceivably look like in 2017.