Innovation Sprints - Bold Steps to New Value
See what everybody has seen, think what nobody has thought, make it happen
Innovation Sprints Mission: To pave the way for new impact and value, across five levels of change
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Formats: Innovation Start & Future-Readiness, Process, Service & Expansion Innovation. Product & Experience Innovation, Business Models. Ventures & Ecosystem Innovation, CommercializIng & Scaling innovation
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Defined: No more status quo or innovation theatre. We need real progress on new products, experiences and lines of business value and impact. An innovation sprint provides the fundamentals of future innovation/change readiness, new product/service/business model workshop(s) and limited experimentation design to deliver better value generation, proposition & capture fundamentals.. With a full command of hybrids of thirty+ leading innovation approaches and thirty+forces, our teams can help you start, explore, search, venture, introduce, scale and embed "big umbrella" innovation more deeply and profoundly inside your organizations, at the flawed front end, messy middle and often ignored back-end.
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The Cygnus Difference:
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Not One Trick Ponies- we have widest arsenal approaches designed for your situation and ambition
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Five Levels - most people consider innovation product-driven, some experience-driven but few design across 5 types
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More Than Ideas- innovation is about impact, value generation and shipping, ideas are merely creativity
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Six Lenses - cross-industry culture, customers, futures, strategy and technology all have big influences
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Speed & Possibility - current innovation operates in small boxes and is unnecessarily slow, we get out of the box and sprint
Options: Arrange multiple sprints across a portfolio projects; build an innovation training curricula and improve the skills and capacity of your internal innovation teams.
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Driving "Innovation Sprint" Insight:
Innovation is a top three post-pandemic need as ranked by CEOs and yet is assesses as only the 17th out of 23 :ranked core disciplines inside companies.
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Biggest Turnoffs in Innovation Development and innovation Partners (we don't do these):
#1. Incrementalism - set a low bar on what is achievable, frequently turn into me-too products
#2. Innovation Theatre - all show, sizzle and ideas, very little substance, impact or launches
#3 Ignore Inputs - invest so much thought upfront, and then ignore early insights in development
#4. Blind to Futures - develop innovation using today's paradigms and assumptions, not tomorrow's world
#5. Time Horizons Crutches - push the really big innovation so far out into the future, it never gets done
#6. Don't Attempt to Understand The Business - not particularly collaborative or invested in company success
#7 Deep but Not Wide Vertical Expertise - more than half the threats to a business are outside current industries, why wouldn't you learn from them, than react to them
INNOVATION START & FUTURE READINESS
Some innovation efforts are doomed to fail before they ever taxi onto the developmental runway, we'll help assess your structure, skills, culture, alignment, resources, approaches, tools and track record before you ever dive deep into specific inititaives.
PROCESS, SERVICE & EXPANSION INNOVATION
Employees and supply chains need to do better with less, customers have jobs to be done with a higher and higher bar of what success is, companies need to redeploy into new geographies, segments and users, we help blueprint the journeys, process, touchpoints, actions and outcomes,
PRODUCT & EXPERIENCE INNOVATION
The traditional sweetspot of innovation partners - we take the best of concept testing, design, experimentation, prototyping and iteration to deliver you a bolder portfolio of product and experience options without the chaos, endless iteration and samness of other efforts.
BUSINESS MODELS, VENTURES & ECOSYSTEMS INNOVATION
Configuring components and networks is more fundamental to innovation than its ever been, we help generate, propose and capture value through pvots and expansion to new business models, pursuit of new routes to innovation and participation in shared ecosystems.
COMMERCIAL-IZING & SCALING INNOVATION
Forty percent of critical innovation issues don't happen on fuelling or taxi-ing onto the runway of innovation, they happen on takeoff and ascent, we tap best commercializing and growth practices and guide your back end innovation through scale stages.
CYGNUS SPRINTS
Cygnus Sprints is your leading on-demand management consulting, strategic advisory and change navigation group designed for your complex and sped-up world.
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