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Business Model
A product is only as good as the Business Model (BM) that supports it, and creating an innovative product requires an equally innovative BM.
Customer needs / JTBD
The Jobs-to-be-Done Statement and Map put the job your customer is hiring your product for at the centre of the work …
Value Proposition
The Value Proposition Canvas provides a framework that centers your customers. It supports understanding the problem your customer is truly trying to solve so that…
Our Business Capability Map summarizes the capabilities of your firm visually in order to help you think about which strengths and assets to leverage for both innovation initiatives as well as digital transformations.
Strategy
This ground-breaking framework helps you understand where to innovate and where to cut costs.
Business Model
The UNITE Business Model Innovation Patterns summarize 95% of all business model innovations. It is a wealth of approaches ...
Once you’ve used the Horizon 2 Digital Transformation process to make a step-change to your Business, you need to bring this innovation back into your core H1 business. This is where many transformation efforts fail. Follow the well-established 8-Step Process to successfully implement your innovation in the core organization.
Understanding Context
You don’t create Value Propositions or Business Models in a vacuum. This critical canvas helps you understand the larger ...
This ground-breaking model outlines the four waves of industrial and cultural revolution that human civilization has undergone over its history, breaking down the most critical factors for each period.
Transformation Approach
The UNITE Culture Canvas summarizes the most important factors that contribute to an organization’s culture. Its simple ...
Innovation Approach
The UNITE Innovation Approach covers the full innovation process end-to-end. It takes you through the entire lifecycle of an innovation ...
Transformation Approach
The UNITE Operating Model Canvas allows you to design your Operating Model purposefully, thinking about how each piece will support ...
Strategy
The Value Disciplines helps you and your team think about what quality your organization ultimately wants to stand for ...
Portfolio allocation is the most important long-term decision to generate results. The UNITE approach to portfolio allocation gives you a straightforward best practice for allocating your resources across the 3 Horizons of Growth.
The Pirate Funnel allows you to easily identify bottlenecks in your customer acquisition and retention process to help you reach your goals as you build and scale.
The UNITE Horizons of Growth are a breakthrough model that allows organizations to understand the three levels on which growth happens. Uniquely, this model demonstrates not only the “what,” but also the “how” and “where.”
This tool helps you define your Business Intention, the critical strategic objectives that will orient your entire innovation project. Nailing your business intentions is critical – else, you will be missing that guiding North Star.
Business Model
The UNITE Exponential Growth Canvas allows you to accelerate or even create exponential growth by including a unique set ...
The Job Journey Navigator allows you to instantly understand the gaps between the importance of a customer’s job and their current satisfaction with the available solutions. This analysis will enable you to identify your innovation opportunities.
The model helps you gain a complete understanding of the holistic and integrated nature of innovation and transformation initiatives.
Different arrangements for the same words – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats – the SWOT/TOWS analysis framework explores internal and external forces that influence your business.
Innovation Approach
These scorecards allow you to rank your solutions concepts and MVPs at the end of Stages 2 and 3 against the most important criteria ...
The Customer Promise Canvas allows you to spin your most significant innovation opportunities into initial solutions and rank these. Further, we test the identified solutions against your business capabilities and the customer’s needs.
The UNITE Strategic Options Matrix allows us to identify and assess the Strategic Options of a firm. How are we going to adapt to changing conditions, what should be our next strategic moves, what approach should we take? This tool will help your team think through your options.
Strategy
The Assessment of Strategic Moves shows us that risks increase with additional steps away from the current economic core ...
The UNITE Innovation Team Structure helps you understand the default team structure and roles you need on an innovation team. Further, you can use the tool as a canvas to design your own team structure and roles.
This important model helps you understand the paradigm shift in organization and leadership that needs to happen in order to keep up with accelerating technological change.
The 9 Box Talent Review Matrix is a human resources management tool that evaluates and assesses an individual’s potential and current performance. It involves plotting an employee’s current job performance against their potential for future growth and advancement within the organization. By using the Matrix, managers can make individualized development programs.
This critical model will help you gain a holistic perspective on strategy and allow you to guide your thinking by focusing on the 4 central questions of strategic design.
The Search Field and Opportunity Space frame your entire innovation initiative(s) up to portfolio level. They fundamentally help you define the general problem you want to solve and help you shape the areas where you could offer viable solutions.
Business Model
The scorecard gives you the most critical questions you need to challenge your Business Model. It will help you gauge ...
The elevator pitch is the key marketing summary of your offering and Value Proposition. With the help of the UNITE Elevator Pitch Template, you can craft a short but compelling description that will serve as the basis of your positioning.
The key metrics for growth represent the key metrics you will need to focus on to ensure that you can get your innovation off the ground.
This ambidextrous org-chart demonstrates how an organization might organize around the 3 Horizons of Growth, catering to both the existing core organization, but also focusing on innovation and transformation.
Porter’s Value Chain Model is a framework that helps analyze a company’s internal processes and activities to identify areas where value can be added and costs can be reduced. As a tool for business strategy, it helps us understand the sources of value creation in a company and how that company can improve its competitiveness. The model separates primary and support activities that a company performs in order to deliver a product or service to its customers.
This ambidextrous org-chart demonstrates how an organization might organize around the 3 Horizons of Growth, catering to both the existing core organization, but also focusing on innovation and transformation.
The UNITE approach to testing lays out the best ways to test your innovation in each of the stages of the UNITE innovation process, enabling you to choose the right test to move your innovation forward.
One of the values of the Mindset Spectrum is that it is a tool that helps us see the big picture and all of the minute details of our organization. It’s like a telescope, and a microscope rolled into one. So here we use it to outline how different mindsets influence specific aspects of your organization, both the obvious and the not-so-obvious ones.
The UNITE Cultural Layers Model summarizes all the layers from purpose in the center to business outcomes and bottom-line results. Each layer builds on the previous one, and ultimately all are aligned with purpose. Nicely, we can thus connect the deep purpose and the softer aspects of culture to the more “hard” and measurable business outcomes and understand how they connect.
The Growth-Hacking process gives you a clear template and approach how to plan and execute the growth of your business.
By targetting four specific Viewpoints in its grid, the Balanced Scorecard analyzes your current operations and the goals you have for each.
The ADKAR model is a framework for change management that helps organizations understand and lead through a larger change initiative. ADKAR is an acronym for the five key elements of successful change: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement.
The UNITE Team Alignment model visually demonstrates different ways of creating alignment in a team and their implications.
The UNITE Principles for successful Innovation Teams builds on Google’s Project Aristotle, which outlines the main things a team needs to thrive. We have set this work in context, tied the team’s work to the other layers of the culture model, and demonstrated how the principles align with the Mindset Spectrum.
As organizational culture shifts from early to later stages of the Mindset Spectrum, principles of leadership change as well. The UNITE Paradigm Shift in Organization and Leadership outlines the critical factors of green-teal leadership and how they differ from earlier models.
The UNITE value creation framework outlines how a company or organization generates value for its customers, stakeholders, and shareholders. It involves identifying the key activities, resources, and capabilities that contribute to creating value, as well as understanding the needs and preferences of the target audience.
The Mindset Spectrum is the basis of our model of cultural transformation. It shows us how an individual’s mindset evolves as they grow and how humankind’s mindset has also evolved over the course of history. An innovation culture requires a green/teal mindset. This model is the key to understanding how to get there.
The visible aspects of our companies that we think of as “culture,” such as processes, structures, behaviors and rituals arise from our personal and collective thoughts, feelings, perceptions and values. If we truly want to revolutionize our culture we must dig deeper.
A visual depiction of the decreasing lifes expectancy of companies based on data from Standard and Poor’s.
The UNITE Stakeholder maps help you understand the different perspectives and needs of stakeholders, and to develop strategies for engaging and managing them effectively.
Lewin’s Change Model describes a three-phase process for implementing change – Unfreeze, Change, and Refreeze – that helps organizations implement necessary changes despite our usual reluctance to abandon the status quo.
It may be cliched to say that change comes from within, but it is true in terms of changes in culture. It is almost always the case that change arises from personal growth. This is why we need to foster such personal evolution in our organizations.
Design your core value creation processes in an ideal way. Connect the dots end to end from onstage action to backstage to supporting processes, IT and your internal setup. The ideal basis to develop an agile organization.
Defining a project accurately is critical to its success. The Project Design Canvas is a visual tool that ensures you are addressing the most important components of a project and that you do so consistently.
The Lean Business Model Canvas is a visual tool used to simplify and analyze a business model. Users focus on creating a minimum viable product to validate the business idea with customers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Based on the Business Model Canvas framework, the Lean Canvas emphasizes rapid experimentation and iteration.
People are the heart of any organization. In an innovation culture, you need people with a green-teal mindset who can adapt flexibly to changing situations. Therefore, hiring is perhaps the most crucial business function. As such, it should never be outsourced or delegated. So get the right people on your team. We will show you how.
The RASCI Matrix is a tool used to clearly define roles and responsibilities within a team or organization. It is used to identify who is responsible for specific tasks or decisions, who is accountable for the overall success or failure of a project or initiative, and who needs to be consulted or informed throughout the process.
The McKinsey 7-S Framework is a management tool that helps organizations align their strategy, structure, systems, shared values, skills, staff, and style to achieve their goals, based on the idea that these seven elements are interconnected and mutually reinforcing.
The PESTLE Analysis is a popular framework used by strategists to explore the marketplace and environment in which they currently operate or plan on entering in the future.
The Growth Share Matrix (also known as BCG Matrix after the Consulting firm Boston Consulting), is a tool for portfolio management based upon a businesses’ growth prospects and it’s existing and potential market share.
We needed an executive overview of innovation and digital transformation as well as the entire story around it. The UNITE Navigator does just that: It provides an overview of all areas related to innovation and transformation. It serves as access point to the UNITE models – the largest library of innovation and transformation models on the Internet. And it covers all areas of digital strategy, innovation, transformation, and any related fields.
Defining a project accurately is critical to its success. The Project Design Canvas is a visual tool that ensures you are addressing the most important components of a project and that you do so consistently.
The Ansoff Growth Matrix is a strategic planning tool to define a product and market growth strategy on the highest level. It provides a framework for analyzing a company’s potential for growth by considering the interactions between existing products, new products, existing markets, and new markets.
The VRIO is a tool built around a set of questions designed to uncover your business’s sustainable competitive advantage. These are unique to your way of delivering value and unlikely to be copied by competitors in the near future. VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, and Organization.
Galbraith’s Five Stars Model for Organizational Design is a framework for designing and analyzing organizations. It describes the key elements required to create an effective organizational structure. The Five Stars are: 1. Strategy & Policy 2. Structure 3. Systems 4. Shared Values 5. Style
The Empathy Map model is a tool used in design thinking to help businesses understand the needs, desires, and behaviors of their target customers. The Empathy Map model is a useful tool for businesses looking to improve their customer experience, develop new products, or expand into new markets.
The Company Board enables all colleagues to contribute to an agile and self-learning organization. The company board thus helps the organization to continuously adapt to the market as quickly and sustainably as possible.
The Approach to Scaling Circular Organizations shows ways to create a network of organization or on how to setup hybrid organizations.
The UNITE Circle Constitution Template allows a circle to establish their work agreements. It helps you efficiently define what each circle is all about.
The UNITE Approach to Collegial Learning enables all colleagues of an organization to acquire new skills in a fast and efficient way and to do so on-the-job.
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The origin
How to Create Innovation is a practical, comprehensive, OpenSource guide for successful corporate innovation.
The UNITE initiative and movement, spearheaded by Stefan F. Dieffenbacher and Caroline Hüttinger and supported by a diverse team of industry leaders and innovation researchers, aims to spark a revolution in global innovation and transformation.
How to CREATE INNOVATION is a workbook for students, innovators, designers, and government and corporate leaders who appreciate and are curious about emerging technologies and the accelerating pace of innovation. It challenges the status quo and supports the development of the mindset, beliefs and strategies necessary for the next stage of business evolution. Leverage the UNITE innovation framework to conceptualize and build the future of your business.
The people behind the models
Digital Leadership is a strategy-execution firm built on strong and innovative values. We support our customers in strategizing, building and securing their future through the creation of fully digitally enabled, and extraordinarily successful, products and businesses. Our agile, lean, fast-track business setup, coupled with access to an extensive pool of highly specialized and trusted resources (customized for each customer’s journey), allows for ideating and building in an effective and meaningful way.
Shared goals are the cornerstone of our customer approach. To date, our team has successfully led 74 projects with numerous global players across all industry sectors, ranging from $50,000 projects to $100 million ones. But helping our customers’ build their futures is not enough. We are committed to changing the world through the sharing of powerful innovation and transformation practices. Join the UNITE movement and help us start an innovation revolution.
We build digital winners. It’s what we are made for. Let’s create winning digital businesses – together. And, at the same time, let’s create a world worth living in.
Stefan F. DieffenbacherFounder & Managing Director of Digital Leadership
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