Using The 5 Forces Analysis for Strategic Thinking
7 Innovation skills that you can teach to anyone on your team.
Ask which ones you need to do more often.
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To follow are 7 Innovation skills that you can teach to anyone on your team. Ask which ones you need to do more often.
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2 of 7 – Respectfully Challenge the Status Quo-Why can’t we do it this way? What would happen if? How could we learn/in0v8 from others?
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3 of 7 – Flipping! Take any position or problem and take the opposite of it. Why shouldn’t people buy from us? What is our negative?
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4a of 7 – Embrace Constraints! Ask, “If we were prevented from selling to any existing customers how would we make money next year?”
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4b of 7 – Embrace Constraints! Ask, “If we were prevented from selling to any new customers how would we make money next year?”
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5 of 7 Study Customers Like a Scientist, Genchi Genbutsu means going to the spot and seeing for yourself do u do that with ur customers?
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6 of 7 A/B Experiment, take anything working or not and augment it & measure the rate of success of version A vs version B go w/ best
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For an elucidation of all 7 of the above Innovation Skills goto: http://contactechelon.com/articles/InnovationSkills.pdf …
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