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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.
Strategy
This ground-breaking framework helps you understand where to innovate and where to cut costs.
Understanding Context
You don’t create Value Propositions or Business Models in a vacuum. This critical canvas helps you understand the larger ...
Strategy
The Assessment of Strategic Moves shows us that risks increase with additional steps away from the current economic core ...
Strategy
The Value Disciplines helps you and your team think about what quality your organization ultimately wants to stand for ...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.”
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Team Alignment model visually demonstrates different ways of creating alignment in a team and their implications.
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.
Different arrangements for the same words – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats – the SWOT/TOWS analysis framework explores internal and external forces that influence your business.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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 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.
By targetting four specific Viewpoints in its grid, the Balanced Scorecard analyzes your current operations and the goals you have for each.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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