Book Club - Future Organization Playbook - 3rd Session - Innovation Architecture

• Innovation - ability to re-thing user experience and the offer to the customer
• Ambidextrie - between becoming more efficient and developing new products
• Geert Claes

Source

• St.Gallen Business Model navigator
• Jobs-2-be-done and Service design
• let experts deal with uncertainty
• Innovation Board approach - with exploration, solution creation and evaluation
  • great tool for alignment and steering communication about ideas
• Phases of an innovation process
  • idee & sketches
  • concept & implementation
  • MVP/pilot (startup)
  • scaling (scaleup) - Blitzscaling?
• access own risk appetite - level of braveness
  • really good to check if one should start with innovation
• with high uncertainty - it is important to place many small bets
• innovation stack
  • heros
  • innovation activities
  • team based innovation
  • innovation architecture - organization wide model for working with innovation
  • adaptive strategy - connected with markers

Methods to increase ability to innovation

• build an innovation architecture
• develop innovation experts - and multipliers
• run innovation projects
• raise awareness on playground and where to innovation - work with Wardley Maps
• work with product discovery approaches
• work with experience design

3 horizons regarding innovation

• horizon 1 - incremental innovation on existing business model - known
• horizon 2 - sustaining innovation, adapting/variation for existing business model - partially unknown
• horizon 3 - disruptive innovation - new business model development - unknown

Level of participation with innovation

transformation - high level of participation innovation - more specialized approach

Mapping of Innovation approaches and transformation vs. innovation Source: Future Organization Playbook p143

• Connection with business model canvas - [[Testing Business Ideas - David Bland Alexander Osterwalder]]

4 Central roles in innovation

Innovation Team

Innovation Management

Innovation Sponsoring

Innovation enablers

Wardley Mapping

• [[GCHQ_Boiling_Frogs_Highlights.pdf]]
• About Wardley Maps
• use card sorting to adjust levels of items on a Wardley Map
• Combine Wardley Maps with Note about Causal Loop Diagram (system maps). Could be interesting to understand forces that move items in direction commodization.
• How much do I use the visibility axis?
  • also to be used as Value Chain view
  • could derive level of Product Discovery that is appropriate (the higher, the more customer facing product discovery)
• Connection of Wardley Mapping as Strategy Tool and WM as Innovation tool
  • Wardley feeds the innovation board - explore part. Leads to HMW questions.
  • Helps to challenge current markers
  • Leads to discovery of new options

Mapping of approaches to stages in Innovation and Strategy hexagon

Source: Future Organization Playbook p183

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