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You don’t create Value Propositions or Business Models in a vacuum. This critical canvas helps you understand the larger ...
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
A visual depiction of the decreasing lifes expectancy of companies based on data from Standard and Poor’s.
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.
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.
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.
The model helps you gain a complete understanding of the holistic and integrated nature of innovation and transformation initiatives.
The UNITE Team Alignment model visually demonstrates different ways of creating alignment in a team and their implications.
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.
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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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