Next 30 : “The Hows” — Business Transformation & Innovation Management

Introducing t he Black #Next30 List — The Futureproofing Universe of Change & Areas of Interest

Innovation done successfully is so not a specialist game anymore. Perhaps it never was. In fact, we likely need a new word for “innovation”, given all its silos, baggage and blindspots. There is a whole universe of change waiting to be explored.

Naturally at Futureproofing, we’re now calling this expansive world of accelerated change & growth “futureproofing“.

We’ve fused thirty (30) holistic parts of the future-savvy innovators’ universe including all their key 600+ facets, under one umbrella. Why buy one type of solution, when you can have the whole menu?

We’ve broken our #Next30 into six (6) categories, In this post, we cover what’s underneath the six transformation/innovation parts — our Black List of Next 30 Futureproofing designed to:

• For yourself, consider these 6 core area and 125 skills, approaches and/or disciplines as you improve your own transformation & innovation abilities and cover for any gaps
• For evaluating your organization and its offerings, consider how skilled and high functioning you are in all these key areas and sub-areas
• For ourselves at Futureproofing, these coverage areas form the basis of our training/learning Academy, our Refinery Audits and Hangar Sprints

#1 Business & Digital Transformation

The ability to step back from the total company and technological operations of your company and make fundamental changes in how a business, organization or tech stack meet changing business, cultural or marketplace requirements:

Objective Setting — Encouraging New Cultural Norms — Digital-first Orientation — Business Process Management — Talent Enablement — Digitalization -Process Digitization — Modernization — Continuous, Executional Improvement — Complexity Reduction — Increasing Transparency — Maintaining Core Systems — Data Management — Enabling Experiences — Ensuring Problem/Resolutions — Cross-company Integration — Enterprise Resource Planning — Business Applications & the Cloud — Digital Twins & Assets — Outsourced Value Creation — Access & Empowerment

#2 Methods of Innovation

The ability to consider an array of different approaches to innovation, transforming ideas into new/improved products, service, processes, experiences, models or ecosystems, in order to advance, compete and differentiate yourselves successfully in their marketplace, whether it be continuous improvement on the low end to wholescale changes on the fuller end:

Knowledge an/or mastery of: Agile Development — Design Thinking — Lean Innovation /Start Up — Business Model Generation (Canvas) — Open Innovation — Rapid Prototyping & Experimentation — Design Sprints — Brainstorming & Creativity — Stage Gate & Waterfall — Jobs to be Done — Blue Ocean — Trend Extrapolation — Anthropological Observation — Scenario Planning — Journey Mapping — TRIZ Ideation — Data Mining — User Surveys & Interviews — Human-based Design — Early Adopter Chasm/Traction Maps — AARRR Funnels — Customer Forces — Value Proposition Design — Customer Development Models — Social Innovation

#3 Corporate Routes to Innovation

The incentivized set of approaches, internal, partnered or external,. reaching, selling and transacting to drive revenue and profit within an identified target market or segment.

Traditional R&D — Incubation/Accelerators — Crowdsourcing/Crowdfunding — Collective Intelligence — Online Communities — Expert/Lead User Panels — Co-Creation — Corporate Venturing- Innovation Challenges & Prizes — Hackathons — Intrapreneurship — Micro-Innovations — Innovation Scouting — Mergers & Acquisitions — Partnerships — Innovation Labs — Centres of Excellence — Skunkworks — Market Testing & Simulations — Startup Equity/VCs — Consortia — Academic Grants & Collaboration — Licensing Assets & Technologies — Open Source & Data Firms — Decentralized Organizations

#4 Best Practices of Innovation Management

The entrenchment and standardization of smart thinking and effective steps that have proven to make sense over time in innovation

Focus — Enablers & Conditions — Resilience & Overcoming Barriers — Pivots & Corporate/Market Fit — Ideation & Screening — Curating Insights and ideas- Master Architecture, Roadmap & Tools — Need Identification — Marketplace Savvy — Benchmarking & Scaling — Project Chartering — Team Development — Agility -Infrastructure, Software & Alignment — Scorecarding & Matrices — Continuous Learning — Process Customization — Grading & Review

#5 Commercialization

The process by which a new product, service or model, is introduced into the general market, from the initial introduction of the product through its expanded production and global adoption, for the purpose of economic, organizational, brand, industry, collaborative and/or societal value

Sales & Marketing — Training & Support — Customer Service — Market Development — Cross-Company Launch Deliverables — Regulatory & Legal — Resource Alignment — Scaled Investment Support — Getting Distribution — Finding & Incubating Early Stakeholders — Discovering Winning Applications — Action Plans — Internal/External Storytelling — Evaluating Return on Investment — Integrating Partners — Pricing, & Promotion — Intellectual Property & Protection — Design Tweaks

#6 Supply Chain Innovation

The pursuit of significant improvements in the way that supply chains operate, and in the way that products, information, work, and funds flow, get stored and integrate throughout the entire supply chain:

Technical Integration — Learning Integration — Cultural Integration — Data Visibility & Control — Peer-to-Peer Learning — Software Automation — Raw Materials Sourcing — Shipping & Warehousing — Production — Retailing — Consumption — Disposal — Forecasting & Demand Planning- Inventory Management — Responsiveness & Replenishment — Logistics — Vendor Management — Customization & Modularization

In our follow up #Next30 posts , we will cover off :

The Red List : The Outsides — Deep Marketplace Insight & Growth Engineering
The Grey List : The Whats — Applied Innovation & Development
The Teal List : The Breakthroughs — Business Model & Ecosystem Development
The Green List: The Insides — Talent & Leadership Change
The Purple List: The Nexts — Futuremapping, Trends and Emerging Tech

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What Next:

If any of the above intrigues you, get in touch with us.

Futureproofing — The Future Beyond Innovation

Futureproofing operates as a hub for the future beyond innovation. We conduct 4+ large research intelligence ventures every year.

We believe to be truly effective, helpful and to get companies, teams and people unstuck, we have built out 11 facets to our business operation:

• The Gallery — a full range of 55 change-related keynotes, briefings & workshops ready to inspire and take the first steps
• The Hangar — delivery of the work, selective or end-to-end sprints, experiments and CoLabs which get teams through key hurdles
• The Hatchery — optimizing for better & bolder organization value via business model, value proposition and ecosystem pivots & expansions
• The Academy — creating a training & learning experience to improve the skills, acumen and certification of futureproofers everywhere
• The Refinery — through over a decade of understanding and mapping the drivers of change, expert audits of org., team & personal future-readiness
• Futureproofing Labs — fresh content and expert intelligence for a fast approaching future — reports and research that navigates what’s ahead
• The Distillery — bridging the distance between unthinkable and possible through corporate ventures, partnerships and incubation
• Futureproofing Forums — open & executive-only conversations with the world’s top change voices through webcasts, events & masterminds
• Futureproofing 66° — our front row of innovation+ & change champions, leading executives, passionate collaborators and practitioner innovators
• The Vault — a comprehensive directory of resources designed to actually help change agents via online resources, tools and enewsletters
• The Futureproofing Awards — global role models for a future-ready change and innovation+ across twenty+ different categories

The organization is led by Sean Moffitt, and is supported by a number of leading change agents from around the world.

Interested? Curious? Get in touch with us here.