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The UNITE Innovation & Transformation Models – Examples of exponentially accelerating change

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 Innovation & Transformation Models – Examples of exponentially accelerating change
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The package

What the download contains

The UNITE Innovation & Transformation Models – Examples of exponentially accelerating change — download package
  1. Examples of exponentially accelerating change, showing declining costs and increasing capabilities across numerous industries
  2. The UNITE Business Model Environment Canvas, allowing you to strategically assess the emerging trends and disruptive forces that affect your business model and organization
  3. Overview of the entire UNITE Business Model Framework, helping you understand the role of the Business Model Environment Canvas in context
  • Examples of key technologies and their exponentially declining costs
  • Helps to make the rapid pace of acceleration easy to conceptualize
  • Helps you assess how your organization will be impacted

The case

Why we use it

Most growth is driven by innovation, but what is driving the accelerating growth that we see? This graphic helps us understand why the past 15 years have moved us forward at an unprecedented pace. These concrete examples demonstrate why we have to innovate to stay ahead of the game.

The mechanics

How It Works

One of the dominant features of the economy over the past 50+ years has been a massive growth in computing power. To understand the exponential evolution of computing power we can look to Moore’s law, the idea that computing performance doubles every two years while costs remain the same. As these technologies drop in price, they shape entire markets. Thus when you are thinking about the near and medium future, think about how the external environment, and particular technologies on an exponential path, will shape the environment you are operating in. But Moore’s law extends to more than just microchips. Many other technologies are following a similar path of exponential evolution. Here we see six such technologies: 3D printing, industrial robots, drones, LIDAR sensors, solar panels, and genome sequencing. We can see that between 2007 and 2017, the price of such technologies dropped dramatically (DNA sequencing has fallen in price by a factor of 100,000!), while the quality has stayed the same or, in many cases, improved.

The purpose

What is the goal of the model?

Planning ahead: Technologies are changing rapidly and dragging the rest of human society with them. If you don’t plan to be ahead of the curve, your business will be left behind. However, if you can envision the ways in which accelerating technologies will shape the markets of the future, you may be able to capitalize on a blue ocean.

Beyond the download

Use this model in Axibra, not only in a slide deck

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In practice

Where this model does its work

For years we applied this model by hand, in client engagements. It now runs inside Axibra.

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Culture is the first reason transformations fail. Axibra keeps the organizational side of a decision in view instead of leaving it to chance.

See how it works

Thousands of organizations leverage the UNITE models — these are some of them …

Stefan F. Dieffenbacher

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