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Resources
The following original White Papers, articles and presentations describe InnovationPoint's perspective on various aspects of Strategic Innovation. To be notified when additional resources are added, and to receive updates on Strategy and Innovation Best Practices, sign up for our free eNewsletter, "The Business Innovator".
Growth Strategy resources
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White Paper: A Framework for Strategic Innovation
Core paper on the principles, methodologies and application of the Strategic Innovation approach |
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Strategic Imagination ~ external Thought Leaders inspire Breakthrough Innovation
Innovation efforts often deliver only incremental ideas and fail to identify longer-term growth platforms. An organization's inwardly-focused and historically-biased view of the world limits its capacity for “strategic imagination”. Bringing in fresh, future-oriented perspectives from outside the organization is an essential catalyst for innovative, “stretch thinking”. |
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Harnessing Consumer Inspiration in New Product Innovation
The conventional wisdom that “consumers can't innovate” is being turned on its head. Having traditionally engaged consumers primarily to validate new product concepts some companies are now experimenting with new ways to solicit consumer insights and ideas to jump-start the “fuzzy front end” of the innovation process. |
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Discontinuous Innovation and the Growth Paradox
The power of discontinuous innovation can present significant threats or opportunities. Visionary organizations understand the four different types of discontinuous innovation, and leverage specific strategies to identify breakthrough new business opportunities |
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Dislocations - Drivers of Industry Evolution and Corporate Growth
Industry dislocations emerge - suddenly or over a period of time - and can be leveraged to create White Space growth opportunities |
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Strategic Innovation for Business Growth
Strategic Innovation can help companies take an integrated approach to building a portfolio of new business opportunities - one that includes both incremental and breakthrough innovations |
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Technology Lifecycles, Market Adoption, and Strategic Innovation
The relationship between product lifecycles and market adoption - and the rationale for taking a Strategic Innovation approach |
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Customer Insight as a Driver of Strategic Innovation
Non-traditional approaches to Customer Insight can enable an organization to leverage both articulated as well as unarticulated customer needs - to drive breakthrough product, service and strategy innovation |
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Industry Foresight as a Driver of Strategic Innovation
By exploring emerging trends an organization can identify significant new business growth opportunities
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Idea Competitions and Breakthrough Innovation
In the quest to grow topline revenues through innovative ideas, organizations are using competitions as a forum for tapping into the creative imaginations of employees, consumers, and external technical, design and other expert thinkers. |
Innovation Capability-Building resources
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Organizational Models for Innovation
Several different organizational models can be put in place to drive innovation across an enterprise, including Venture Boards, Innovation Councils, Ambidextrous Organizations, Open Innovation Networks and cross-group solution teams. |
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Innovation Metrics for Driving Growth
Metrics drive both behavior and results. Without the right metrics, great ideas often flounder. Through establishing innovation-focused metrics, it becomes possible to drive innovation strategically across the enterprise. |
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Ambidextrous Organizations
Creating an autonomous "business within a business" with different organizational structure is an effective way of fostering innovation in a mature enterprise |
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Innovation Diagnostic
An Innovation Diagnostic is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of an organization's innovation effectiveness - identifying the ways in which current organizational structures, practices and cultural norms enable or inhibit successful innovation. Conducting a Diagnostic is the first step in building a culture that embraces, applies and supports innovation. |
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Strategy-Structure Alignment
An enterprise can effectively execute upon its business strategy only if organizational structure is appropriately designed. Strategy-Structure Alignment is a systematic methodology for ensuring that organizational design and business strategy are in sync. |
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Don't Start with Creativity Training
Organizations sometimes introduce broad-based "innovation and creativity training" to help employees think differently. But there are alternatives to this long and often disappointing road. |
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