Case in Point
Silicon
Valley Companies
Adapted from
Relentless
Growth, Christopher
Meyer
Decide if your innovation portfolio has enough
stretch:
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Balance between revolutionary and
evolutionary initiatives. First, Silicon Valley companies assess the
overall balance between
revolutionary and evolutionary projects. The ultimate arbitrator of
portfolio stretch if the innovation leaders’ judgment, experience,
intuition, and luck...
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The Importance of
Being
First-to-Market
Being first in any market category is going to
give you the edge – being the leader comes from being first. It's much
easier to get into the mind of consumers first that try to convince people
you have a better product or service than the one that did get there first.
Improvements are always made to product/service inventions and
innovations
but the first in has a head start. Once you are the leader, a position
mostly gained by being first, it is pretty hard for
competitors to dislodge
you, as long as you keep your products up to date and of comparable
quality...
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Radical Innovation...
Venture Planning...
10 Steps to Turning Your Ideas / Inventions
Into Big Cash Wealth...
The Five-Steps Methodology...
Managing Radical Innovation Projects...
Innovation Process:
Diversion
and Conversion of Ideas...
Motivating Radical Idea Generation...
Specific
Mindset and Skill Requirements...
Entrepreneurial
Leadership...
Value
Innovation...
The Power of Prototyping...
The New Role of Prototyping...
Market Learning...
Keys to Successful Market Learning...
Measuring Success...
Case in Point
Benefits of Business Process
Management...
Case in Point
AT&T – Developing New Credit Card Service...
Case in Point
IDEO – a World's Leading New Product Design Company...
Case in Point
Joint Development of a Laser Printer by Canon and HP...