†Acknowledgement to Gina O’Connor and her research on innovation as described in her book “Grabbing Lightning”
The Domain – Discover – Incubate – Accelerate framework is a well researched†, proven innovation system architecture for creating innovations that expand a companies boundaries.
Domain
Expand the organization’s boundaries and align with strategic intent
Discover
Explore domains to identify strategic opportunities
Incubate
Experiment to validate and test opportunities in the real world
Accelerate
Execute to scale new businesses
Increase Readiness by Reducing Uncertainty
Four Dimensions of Uncertainty, One measure of Opportunity Readiness
Boundary pushing innovations are those Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 opportunities that have large degrees of uncertainty and, therefore, are not suited to standard New Product Development processes. These are the evolutionary and transformational opportunities that will drive accelerated future growth but that are also the most problematic for companies to manage. The ADOPTS™ framework focuses efforts on reducing the degree of uncertainty and increasing opportunity readiness.
Four dimensions of uncertainty:
Organization
Where will the new opportunity fit in the organization and who will support it?
Demand
What is needed and desired, by who, how much and why?
Design
Is what we need to create possible and can it be made desirable?
System
What is the new ecosystem within which the innovation can thrive and how can it be created?