Inspired by IDEO’s method cards, motivated by the success the Reinventing your Business series posts had and driven by the need for a workshop tool I recently created this card deck as a collection of inspiration for value innovation, market innovation and business model innovation. I used the deck with 120 managers in a large group event setting.
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Tools & Resources
Here is a set of questions helping you to think about your strategy, and find some new answers to the old questions of how to differentiate your company from your competitors, and find new paths for growth.
How to use it? Get your senior management team together and let them discuss the issues in small groups.
Download the guide as pdf: Reinventing your business
Nobody really knows actually. But here are a couple of thoughts that might help you to put things in perspective. The presentation has been viewed almost 20 000 times on slideshare…so I guess it must be of some value! 
What is strategy?
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Looking at the literature on the role of top management in innovation, one often comes across the instruction to create an organizational context enabling and driving innovation. But what does such a context look like? I went through about 100 articles and studies and summarized my findings…here they are.
First of all we have to look at the elements that constitute the organizational context and then look at the characteristics of these elements within strategically innovative companies and compare them to non-innovative companies. [continue reading…]
What are the objectives of your innovation efforts? When talking to executives about innovation or innovation initiatives I very often experience that the objectives are not clear.
To focus the discussion and make objectives clearer, I developed an innovation map featuring 4 prototypical innovation types.
Using the map not only helps to focus the discussion, but also serves as an evaluation tool to see whether innovation efforts are in line with the desired outcomes.
Defining Innovation Types.
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Use the map and tell me how it worked for you. Have a look at The Innovation Map on slideshare.
Thanks to Vincente Centelles for translating the map into Spanish.
Here’s a summary of Gary Hamel’s “The Future of Management”.
Use it as an inspiration to bring innovation to your company. (and get back to us on how it worked!)
Gary Hamel on The Future Of Management
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