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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

White Paper: A Framework for Strategic Innovation
Core paper on the principles, methodologies and application of the Strategic Innovation approach.   Paper highlights the key elements of industry foresight, customer and consumer insight, core competencies and capabilities, and strategic alignment in driving new growth opportunities.

The Future of Service Business Innovation
This report highlights key mega-trends and emerging business models for driving growth in the global service economy. Examples of both well-known and little-known companies that represent forerunners in service innovation within their respective industries highlight various trends, business models and strategies. The research for this report was conducted in part through funding by Tekes, the national funding agency for innovation in Finland.

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.

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.


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


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


Technology Lifecycles, Market Adoption, and Strategic Innovation
The relationship between product lifecycles and market adoption - and the rationale for taking a Strategic Innovation approach

Innovation Capability-Building Resources

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.

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.

Ambidextrous Organizations
Creating an autonomous "business within a business" with different organizational structure is an effective way of fostering innovation in a mature enterprise

Creating a Culture of Innovation
Every organization has a culture, and many have "sub-cultures" that are created by individual leaders.  When it comes to innovation, the extent to which culture supports or hinders innovation can often be the single biggest factor in an organization's long-term success.

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.

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.

Books

Leapfrogging:  Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs
Leapfrogging is about changing the game -- creating or doing something radically new or different that produces a significant leap forward. Click the link above to download the introduction, buy the book on Amazon or visit the Leapfrogging book website to learn more.

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Learn more about the book, Leapfrogging
 
 

View video interview with Soren Kaplan about his book, Leapfrogging
 
 
 

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