The traditional belief that innovation must start with "lightbulb moments" often leads to wasted resources. Successful companies begin with strategic innovation—identifying the intersection of market needs and organizational capabilities. This strategic foundation transforms innovation from sporadic events into a permanent organizational habit that delivers consistent commercial success.
Everything you believe is needed for changing a business from current state to future state
Arkaro recently posted a LinkedIn poll with the question “What is most frustrating about your strategy process?” Poll results highlight agility but other issues are raised...and solutions offered
Mark Blackwell, Arkaro, becomes an affiliated partner for The Emergent Approach to Strategy
Staircase models are popular for breaking an overall high-level aspiration into sequential milestones, sometimes yearly. Staircases are a type of roadmap, and can be very useful visualisation of a plan, but they cannot be described as a strategy.
Most strategy statements fail because they don't guide daily decisions. Dr Pete Compo's breakthrough definition changes everything: 'A strategy is the central rule of a framework, designed to unify all actions and decisions around busting the bottleneck to achieving the foremost aspiration.' Real strategy provides real-time guidance.
The Killer Problem #1 to change and innovation – achieving the aspirations is what matters – but aspirations are not directly actionable
To ensure strategy statements really are strategies, the Emergent Approach toolkit includes new tests called The 5 Disqualifiers of Strategy.