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From chaos to predictable outcomes @Strategy and Innovation World Forum

Emanuel Martonca manu@thinslices.com

February 1st, 2017

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Trust.

Trust.

Your CFO’s definition for Chaos

A context where it’s ok to fail.

Making mistakes is encouraged. Every. Single. Day.

Being inneficient is not a tragedy.

And you spend (a lot of) money without an immediate, guaranteed return on investment.

Trust.

The six obstacles standing in the way for Corporate

Innovation

6

Treating People as Resources

#1

Article on innovation in leading business journal

… the two companies didn’t plan for governance and resources to properly follow up on the generated ideas. The key resources were

owned by another function that was not involved in the process and had no incentives to

lend the resources.

Too much focus on the Triple Constraints of Project Management

#2

and not enough attention given to People and Trust.

from Zero to Product Design to MVP to One

Work as a Real Team

People & Skills

Methodology & Process

SaaS Execution Map

Not enough communication between people / departments / stakeholders.

#3

Collections An innovation CRM

Over-reliance on rigid Policies, Frameworks and Procedures

#4

over competent People and Teams.

Team

Plan

second-rate

first-rate

first-rate second-rate

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— Sun Tzu

Every war is won or lost before it even begins.

Over-reliance on managers and super-star employees

#5

over Teams and their members.

The outdated mental models of how companies treat

stakeholders.

#6

Voice as a platform and/or interface

AR / VR

Industrial IOT

Artificial Intelligence

Self-driving anything

Chatbots

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New New Things

No, the main lessons to be learned from succesful startups are not about casual dress, flexible hours and stock options.

It’s about trust. For disruptive innovation to happen, you need trust.

manu@thinslices.com