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Build your capacity for reinvention and generate new growth in 12 months.
Research shows that 7 out of 10 new products and services fail to deliver on expectations. Even great companies struggle to systematically create new growth initiatives. Access Strategyzer’s Growth Portfolio and benefit from over two decades of research and experience in the field. Establish a solid innovation strategy and ecosystem. Implement clear governance structures. Measure innovation risk and return and make evidence-based investments.
Our tools, processes, and methodology revolutionized innovation and entrepreneurship. Millions of business professionals worldwide use them to get results.
Our methodology is simple, practical, and scalable. It provides clear governance for leadership and teams. Use it to build your innovation portfolio.
We believe in technology-enabled services that leverage the best of human creativity.
Our Software Platform enables teams to design, test, and track project progress. The leadership dashboard offers leadership a portfolio overview.
Our Cloud Academy builds your team’s skills and capability.
An experienced Program Director provides innovation ecosystem design and implementation expertise.
A dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) onboards and supports your team members.
We coach your leadership on innovation management, culture, and ecosystem design.
We coach your innovation leads to manage the process and support teams.
We coach your teams from unproven idea to evidence backed business opportunity.
Research shows that you can't pick winning ideas. The best way to create big winners in innovation is to start with many small bets. Increase investments in projects that produce evidence and shelve those that don't.
Once foundational elements are in place, the process has three phases. Discover promising ideas by investing a little across many small teams. Validate 30% to 50% of promising ideas discovered. Trim your portfolio once again and Accelerate only 30 to 50% of those promising ideas.
2-3 months
The Analysis & Design phase is all about putting in place the foundational elements for the implementation of a Growth Portfolio.
*Only required the first time you run a Growth Portfolio
3 months
Start with a cohort of 10 small teams and 10 ideas. Map the business models and value propositions. Then make the underlying risks explicit, test hypotheses, and course correct rapidly. Adapt the ideas over 8 weeks until they look promising.
3 months
Continue with the 3 to 5 ideas that show the most potential based on evidence. Intensify testing over a 12-week period. Perform willingness to pay and pricing experiments. Use strong evidence to identify business ideas likely to succeed.
5-6 months
Further intensify testing over the next 24-week period with strong Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). Gather evidence that you can acquire and retain customers. Prepare for scaling and further investments.
The Analysis & Design phase is all about putting in place the foundational elements for the implementation of a Growth Portfolio.
The On-boarding phase is all about engaging stakeholders, and aligning on what’s expected from them for a successful program.
During the Discovery workshop, the teams will get more practice with the Strategyzer innovation toolkit, shape their initial ideas using the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas, and get ready to test their idea on the ground.
In the Testing phase, teams will de-risk their business ideas by going out into the real world, talking to customers and collecting evidence. In an iterative process they will go back and forth between designing and testing their ideas. The insights they gain from testing will help them make evidence-based decisions.
The leadership team and/or growth board will select the 3 to 5 teams to go to the Validation phase, with the support of the Strategyzer team.
In the validation workshop the team members will familiarize themselves with the testing process they will go through in Validation phase to test the remaining critical hypotheses underlying their Business Model and Value Proposition. Together with their coach they will create their testing plan for the next 12 weeks.
In the Testing phase, the teams will further de-risk their idea by designing experiments to test the next batch of critical hypotheses underlying their Business Model and Value Proposition. In an iterative process they will go back and forth between designing and testing their idea. The insights they gain from testing will help them make data-driven decisions.
The leadership team and/or growth board will decide which team should continue to the Acceleration phase with the support of the Strategyzer team if needed.
In the acceleration workshop the team will co-design with their coach the testing and/or scaling plan for the next 20+ weeks. This plan will be adapted to the specific context of the team and its business and is likely to include a series of shorter sprints.
Depending on the nature of the business they’re building, the team’s activities during Acceleration might still be focused on de-risking remaining critical hypotheses in order to build a solid business case (e.g. in a case where there are still critical feasibility hypotheses related to hardware development or a heavy infrastructure required). Other teams might evolve quicker towards scaling challenges such as recruiting required staff, setting up the right legal structure, etc.
During the final workshop the team will present their business plan to the leadership team or growth board.
A sustainable innovation ecosystem requires a strong innovation culture. This includes the right leadership support, appropriate organizational design and governance structures, and a strong innovation practice. Strategyzer Growth Portfolio equips your leaders and teams with the skills and confidence to operate a repeatable and scalable innovation ecosystem designed for your organization.
Select ideas based on evidence, not opinion and establish an evidence-based investment process:
Allow the most promising idea with the best risk profile to emerge. Strategyzer Growth Portfolio is designed to systematically retire ideas that don’t deliver. Hone in only on the most scalable and validated ones.
Participants will learn how to:
Leaders will learn how to:
Corporate innovators are invited to join our team of experts for this 1-hour webinar where we will share all the best practices on how to structure a repeatable process and create the exploration culture to design and test new business ideas. Register today to learn how to build a World-Class Corporate Innovation Ecosystem.
We talked to Bayer’s Corporate Innovation team to learn how they took a portfolio approach to investing in new ideas, how they conducted experiments in spite of being in a heavily regulated environment, the obstacles they faced and the measures they took to overcome these.
This is an opportunity to learn the practical experience of a team that has worked relentlessly on bringing business model innovation to a global enterprise with the help of Strategyzer.
It depends. Every company is at a different stage in developing their innovation capability. The right starting point for you could be one of our three foundational programs focusing on leadership engagement, on the assessment of your current innovation capability, and on the co-design of a sustainable innovation ecosystem blueprint. Or maybe you have innovation teams that are about to start (or have already started) and you’d like to run an Innovation Sprint or a Growth Discovery Program with those specific teams. There are different possible starting points, but all will get you on your way to manage your Growth Portfolio and create a world-class innovation ecosystem.
Expand your leadership team’s growth capability with the Leadership Awareness Program. Learn how to manage innovation portfolios and design an innovation culture.
Get a detailed picture of your innovation readiness with the Innovation Ecosystem Assessment. Map your innovation culture & portfolio, identify current strengths, weaknesses and potential blind spots. Get tailor-made recommendations for improvements.
Collaborate with us in an Innovation Ecosystem Codesign Sprint to prototype your ideal innovation ecosystem. Sketch out the innovation infrastructure adapted to your organization’s needs.
Explore 10 early-stage business ideas in just 3 months with a Growth Discovery Program.
Build your ability to design and de-risk a new value proposition and business model with an Innovation Sprint.
