Topic 7 Innovation strategy Flashcards
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Innovation paradox
the basic problem contronting an organization is to engage in sufficient exploitation to ensure its current viability and at the same time, devote enough energy to exploration to ensure its future viability
Modern times
the billows feeding machine
the highest performing company has a well developed system tailored to capture the value from its lead customers
structure
capability
culture
operation
partnership management
->THE LEAD CUSTOMER
with the marketing department the project team gathered feedback from their lead customers and did the market analysis
they chose the best project for the project for the product or improvement their leader customers want
best projects
best market size
best profit margin
customer validation
its extremely difficult to keep resources for a disruptive innovation for an unproven market
funding
manpower
give responsibility for disruptive innovation to organizations whose customers need them
well run company
lead customers
a spin off organization
niche market
place disruptive innovation projects in organizations
small enough to get excited about small market
this is good enough for me
the right dna and the right smell
disruptive innovation
- small organization - small market
plan to fail early and inexpensively in the search for the market for disruptive innovation
the right mindset
failure leads to success
the road of innovation goes zig zag
utilize the resources of the mainstream organization to address disruption but not its process and values
the forget, borrow and learn challenge
i dont need an oil truck, but i need the petrol in its tank
disruptive innovation is a marketing challenge
when disruptive innovation is presented
disruption company take it as a marketing challenge
take the leap of faith and target innovators and early adopters
The right organizational dna for innovation
the dna of a company
$staff
leaderships style, hiring and promotion policies, career paths, competencies
$structure
decision authority, formal information flows, task flows
$systems
planning, budgeting, performance evaluation, incentives
$culture
values, embedded biases and assumptions
today, tomorrow and day after
time, attention, budget, talent = value creation
yesterday not included into value creation
creating a separate but connected organization
existing company dna forget and burrow their dna into new company
learn forget and borrow
the new company must forget the existing companies assumptions as to why it wins
the new company must borrow the correct assets (capabilities and resources) from the existing company
the new company must learn how to make a profit in an uncertain market
the hourglass model
balancing sense and trying with scaling and running
sense
your radar screen for all things new and exciting: new idea, technologies, models and concepts
try
experiment with ingredients for change, create a safe environment to test ideas fast and safely
scale
which concepts, ideas and projects are really worth scaling out throughout the organization
run
run the operations as smoothly, efficiently and reliably as possible
the innovation eco system
need
fertile ground
create, learn, test
market