Based on your assessment of the current situation facing your startup or innovation project discussed in my last blog post, the Gut Check (including a good grasp of the past and changing conditions ahead), it is time to put your core idea and inertia through the strategy ringer, or a set of decision-making criteria that should improve your prospects for
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In his book “Design-Driven Innovation. Changing the rules of competition by radically innovating what things mean” author Roberto Verganti argues that truly ground-breaking innovation happens when leaders propose a new vision to the market that is made possible by a new technology, but most importantly, how it changes the underlying meaning (or the ‘why?’) of a certain activity. He
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If you love entrepreneurship, you’ve also gotta love or at least appreciate strategy. Every winning business venture is founded on solid strategy (whether or not the entrepreneur actually knows it or not, which is sort of ironic). But for us innovation management practitioners, the goal is to demystify the innovation ‘black box’ and notice the underlying patterns that lead to
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When formulating a new venture, consider the bond between invention and business model discipline – aka, Innovation. The birth of the Ford Motor Company story serves as a prime example. How many of you have ever heard of James Couzens? Without James Couzens, you probably would not have heard of Henry Ford. James Couzens completed Henry Ford. Ford, the visionary
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