Insights about strategy and innovation

Ideas To Impact: Focus on Late-Stage Innovation

21-04-2021 No Comments

Do we tend to focus too much on generating better ideas and too little on moving them to market success? Companies work hard to build innovation capabilities only to find themselves stuck in “Ideation Limbo.” Enthusiasm begins to wane and your efforts are going nowhere. Our experience has given us many insights into what your organization can do to convert ideas into tangible business results.

Innovate with purpose

21-04-2021 No Comments

For successful businesses purpose defines the role they want to play in the future they aim to help shape. It is driven by a desire to have a positive impact on the lives of consumers and customers and to engage their employees in building the future of the company. Having a clear purpose will outperform more traditional strategy development because it will help unleash a passion to innovate in your organization.

Taking Your Stage Gate to the Next Level

Taking Your Innovation Stage Gate to the Next Level

21-04-2021 No Comments

The stage-gate process has been a cornerstone of product development since the 1960’s. As applied to innovation, the stage-gate process often yields incremental innovation. Despite its benefits, the stage-gate approach has led to a lot of unintended consequences that inhibit innovation. So how can we adjust the stage-gate process to be more innovation friendly?

Keeping the Customer in Focus

21-04-2021 No Comments

Most innovation projects focus on discovering customer needs and resolving customer problems at the front end of the process. But,

Portfolio Strategy Lessons from Venture Capital

21-04-2021 No Comments

Top-line growth is imperative for companies of all sizes because it is the dominant driver of total shareholder return over

Experimental Creativity

21-04-2021 No Comments

Coming up with clever, cheap, fast experiments to test the assumptions of your business model is not easy. There is really no prescription for what to use when or where. This is one of the more “creative” exercises within the innovation journey. But the good news is that there are few design principles to guide you and some examples that can hopefully spark some ideas as you design your own experiments.

Management innovation: innovating our processes

21-04-2021 No Comments

Our work has focused on helping clients to create and realize innovative strategies and new offering concepts. But what about the entire management infrastructure that an organization uses to deliver value to its customers? Our thinking led us to a “principles-based” approach to management innovation.

Struktur frigör kreativitet

21-04-2021 No Comments

In this special ‘Innovation’ edition of the Swedish Standard Magazine (in Swedish) Michel van Hove of Strategos is interviewed about

Management Innovation: Busting Bureaucracy

Management Innovation: Radical Simplification

21-04-2021 No Comments

Paving the way for a new type of workplace where individual contribution and creativity is encouraged and respected – a new type of corporation built for human beings that eliminates bureaucracy by applying a Management Innovation approach.

Articles

Ideas To Impact: Focus on Late-Stage Innovation

Innovate with purpose

Taking Your Innovation Stage Gate to the Next Level

Keeping the Customer in Focus

Portfolio Strategy Lessons from Venture Capital

Experimental Creativity

Management innovation: innovating our processes

Struktur frigör kreativitet

Management Innovation: Radical Simplification

Unlock your organizations full potential