Innovation
Axibra helps organizations grow their innovation capability — across the whole company, not in one team.
See how it worksThis 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.
The package
The case
The first step for any innovation initiative is to define the business intention. What problem do you want to solve? What legacy do you want to leave behind? Do you want to move into a new space? Why? The Business Intention is a high level directional decision that will define what you are after and help you structure the innovation team to achieve it.
The mechanics
It is important to put your business intention in writing. Often, we find that firms do not explicitly define their intention. Later this results in initiatives that do not match the original intention and are thus outside of the intended scope! Covering the intention well is also critical from another perspective: fears motivate us 7x more strongly than the hopes of winning something. This is why clearly defining a situation we want to avoid is a highly relevant exercise. Beyond this, a business intention is more pertinent than a bold vision, since it is precise and directive. Your intention can take various shapes and will heavily influence your subsequently objectives, so be careful when choosing. If you are having trouble determining an intention, the UNITE definition of the Business Intention will spur your thinking and give you a place to start.
The purpose
What is the goal of the model?
Orientation. If you start the race without a clear sense of where you are going, you might end up in a very different place than you originally intended. Set your business intention first to get a jump start on your competition.
Beyond the download
The PDF is yours to keep. But a model changes something only when it touches the work — and that is what Axibra does with it. The model becomes the structure your decisions are made in, and every outcome stays traceable back to the input it came from.
In practice
For years we applied this model by hand, in client engagements. It now runs inside Axibra.
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Axibra is where these models run. It carries a decision through to the work that follows it, and keeps every result traceable back to the input it came from. If you would rather start with a conversation, we are one call away.
Strategy does not fail in the thinking. It fails in the handover.
Stefan F. DieffenbacherFounder & Managing Director of Digital Leadership
