Innovation
Jobs-to-be-Done, Lean, Blue Ocean, Innovator's Dilemma, TRIZ, OODA, Cynefin.
What job is the user really hiring this for?
Canonical thinkers
- Clayton Christensen
- Eric Ries
- W. Chan Kim
- John Boyd
- Dave Snowden
Seed concepts
- jobs to be done
- design thinking
- lean startup
- blue ocean
- crossing the chasm
- diffusion of innovation
- innovator's dilemma
- triz
- theory of constraints
- ooda
- cynefin
- innovation
Underlined seeds link to their full glossary entry. Plain seeds are pending a definition page.
Typed connections
Full graph →How this layer reinforces, counteracts, or depends on the rest of the system.
- Reinforces·LayerLeadership reinforces this layer
Leadership that protects experimentation directly increases the rate at which novelty survives contact with the org.
- Depends on·LayerThis layer depends on Complexity Science
Real innovation requires variation, selection, and retention — the same engine that drives complex adaptive systems.
Elements in this layer
16 HBEsOrder, discipline, hierarchy, principle, and rule-based value system. The 'right way' to do things.
Innovation destroys old industries and creates new ones.
The gap between early adopters and the early majority kills most products.
Sort situations into Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, or Confused — each needs a different response.
Innovators → early adopters → early majority → late majority → laggards.
Innovation borrowed from the immune system — distributed sensing, rapid response, memory of past attacks.
Awards reward visible novelty; quiet excellence goes unrecognized.
Innovation programs designed to signal innovation, not to produce it.
Doing everything right by current customers can kill you.
Customers hire products to do a job in their life.
We treat money differently depending on which bucket it's in.
Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — faster than your competitor.
Assuming new technology will be adopted faster and more usefully than it will.
Punishing failure more than rewarding success kills the conditions for innovation.
40 inventive principles distilled from patent literature for resolving technical contradictions.
Drives innovation and differentiation