Innovation
Axibra helps organizations grow their innovation capability — across the whole company, not in one team.
See how it worksThe 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 package
The case
True innovation efforts search for new products and Business Models, they don’t figure out how to better execute existing ones. So, we start our process of innovation by defining a Search Field, a general topic cluster that identifies the markets, products, technologies, and trends in which you want to innovate. The Opportunity Space subsequently helps you refine what you really want to focus on.
The mechanics
Like your Business Intention, the Search Field provides thematic focus and high-level orientation. To begin to define your Search Field, ask yourself, which industry do you want to focus on? Who are you addressing? What types of challenges do they have? After this, you may want to clarify which level of abstraction you want to act on. Do you want to change the world and create a totally new Business Model, or do you want to focus on a more targeted product or service innovation? With the help of the Search Field Matrix, you can then go deeper and assess your Search Field through a number of different dimensions. This could include taking on different perspectives, including technologies, core & differentiating capabilities, fields areas of application, market segments, or technical competencies. Last but not least, you can break down each Search Field into a number of distinct Opportunity Spaces, which will ultimately help you create a detailed definition of where you want to innovate.
The purpose
What is the goal of the model?
Focus. Defining a Search Field and Opportunity Space will allow you to systematically analyze the areas in which you could be innovating. They help you think about what large problem you could be solving, and prioritize spaces where you could productively intervene, while at the same time connecting your innovation process both to your business intention and your company’s strengths and capabilities.
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.
Axibra helps organizations grow their innovation capability — across the whole company, not in one team.
See how it worksAxibra closes the infamous gap between strategy and execution, and carries a transformation through to delivery.
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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
