NPD, Design, Corporate Entrepreneurs and exact ROI

How do firms keep making breakthroughs like Entrepreneurs and Designers do? By utilizing the exact toolset that VC’s and intrapreneurs have been using since the corporate venture labs days of SRI and Xerox PARC. Detailed in “Guideline for Design of a Corporate Entrepreneurship Function” we see the exact details and models for how to make this work inside large organizations. Firms like Unilever, Microsoft, SNCF, British Gas, RAI, BMW have all made this work and with spectacular results. Here’s how.

 

 

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You want innovation? Circular Chaos and Linear Logic

How are breakthroughs accomplished? Does it have to be Chaos? Is it as smooth as linear steps? Either can be just as hard as running on Jupiter or jumping on the moon but both require a specific set of tools and effort. In “Modelling Product Innovation Processes, from Linear Logic to Circular Chaos” exact tools such as The Delft Model and Schon’s Model are compared and a reviewed. In combination is where the true genius is revealed.

 

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Planning to Adopt? An Innovation? Raise it well. Here’s how:

The issue with an adoption, a plant, a friend, a child, and entirely new effort for a firm is the way that the innovation is integrated with the overall firm itself. The dilemma of when to bring it into fuition, how to get others to also adopt it and champion is well documented in “The Dynamics of Factors Affecting the Adoption of Innovations” providing necessary tools to make innovations happen while avoiding the disadvantage of facing the risks of failure.

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