Tools and strategies for Careful Innovation. How to promote cautious, ethical and meaningful progress for better impact on people and planet.
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Careful Innovation is true to the original meaning of disruptive innovation as coined by Clay Christensen. Here is a growing repository of strategies that anyone working with innovation can use in their daily work.
Ethics as a Strategy
Unearth ethical business opportunities before your competitors do.
Problems over Solutions
Pivot around amazing problems. Not solutions.
Reframe Outcomes
Change human behavior for better impact on people & planet.
Complement Competitors
Competition is great for progress but unhealthy competition is not good for anyone.
Don't Start with Tech
Look for old problems that can be solved with emerging tech.
Here are some tools for the careful innovator to use in their daily work or when they are faced with important decisions or dilemmas.
Impactful User Stories
Craft micro-strategies for teams who are working on innovation
Escalator Principle
Build your solutions to work without ideal conditions.
Leaps and Loops
Pinpoint the most likely path to finding meaningful opportunities.
Principles as Algorithms
Create your path before reactionary work takes you to places you don’t want.
Good Busy Bad Busy
Map your tasks according to your own priorities beyond reactive work.
Self-looping Cycles
Create positive feedback loops that self-reinforce over time.
Funeral Exercise
Determine your own long-term values and goals.
Scale on Savings
Save on resources or labor where a small change will make a diiference.
Positive Gain
Balance the wins of your company with the substrate it feeds on.
Fifth Vital Metric
All businesses have five main metrics that they monitor.
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