The ability to successfully lead a team or an organization is heavily dependent on efficient and effective decision-making. In start-ups and smaller teams this success is often vested in a single individual. In larger and more complex organizations decision-making is often cascaded across multiple teams and individuals. When there is a single decision-maker, success is […]
Developing More Meaningful Value Propositions
A cornerstone concept for IOI Partners is value – creating, delivering, and capturing value. The Discovering Your Value Proposition (DYVP) Workshop uses proven canvas tools to help early stage companies identify value from multiple perspectives. As an engineering educator, value is a critical concept that is integrated into every aspect of teaching as our graduates […]
Delivering Innovation: Critical-to-Value™ Matters to Succeed or Fail Fast
You can’t plan for success or fail fast without knowing what matters. Organizations that seek to deliver innovation must understand their capabilities with respect to the required elements of a plan necessary to realize the full value of an innovation effort, as highlighted in a recent IOI Partners article. We call these required elements to […]
Delivering Innovation: Assessing Your Organization’s Capability
The ability for a business to sustain itself depends on the organization’s capability to continually deliver value to existing and new customers. The value proposition for a business depends on the type of business and how it serves its customers. A distribution business differentiates itself in ways other than a product-based business would. Regardless, an […]
The Learning, Knowledge-Creating Organization
“In the knowledge-creating company, inventing new knowledge is not a specialized activity—the province of the R&D department or marketing or strategic planning. It is a way of behaving, indeed a way of being, in which everyone is a knowledge worker—that is to say, an entrepreneur.”[1] Personally, the most capable organizations I have been a part […]
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