Find the Future First: New Perspectives
As William Gibson sagely observed, “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” Learn where and how to find it.
Apple
Platforms Cultivate Ecosystems
Fight your inner Steve Jobs. Build partnerships. Share the glory.
Aspire Higher
Want market leading growth? You don’t need a benevolent dictator at the helm. You don’t need a Silicon Valley address. You don’t need high technology, and you don’t need magic. What you need is discipline. Follow these eight steps to embed robust innovation into your growth strategy.
Plan for And
How does your company plan for the future? Rather than just conventional business strategy, add an integrated innovation strategy. Your best growth is balanced growth.
How will you organize to innovate?
Designers know that form follows function. Organization designers know that structure follows strategy. Don’t design your innovation function until you’ve agreed what it’s meant to achieve, and the essential organizing principles.
Lesson 8. Platforms place smart bets
Smart investors optimize returns by balancing risk. Spread your growth investments across a portfolio of possibilities. Consider this mix, across three horizons of risk & return.
Lesson 6. Platforms fail forward
Richard Branson, much like Steve Jobs, made a virtue of failure. His high-profile successes overshadow the failures that taught him where and how to mine growth: fail fast, fail often, fail learning. Fail forward.
Lesson 4. Platforms host the party
To build the platform everyone wants, plan the party everyone wants to attend. Then throw the doors wide open.
Roger Mader 