Bounce Forward

Understand how the New Normal will look like. How will customers journeys, winning value propositions and the ecosystem / value chains be different? Check if the foundational assumptions about your business / operational models will still be relevant in the post-crisis business environment.

In every crisis there are opportunities. Some of the change that we all went through will stick. What will be sticky in your industry? What are your opportunities in there? Historically, there were disruptive innovations and new winners emerging from every major crisis in the last 50 years. In this century the winners used a platform business model. What is your winning business model innovation?

Bouncing forward to success in a changed business environment requires to have a head start. Aligning Innovation and Digital strengthens the Core immediately. Combining customer understanding with superior technology, these two units can produce  short-term, superior client solutions. They both share a comparable mind set and work styles – Which make collaboration rather easy.

Only corporate startups / ventures that are “worth to be scaled” and “ready to be scaled” should be kept alive during the crisis and in the transition to the post-crisis New Normal. Zombies need to be identified and killed, and the combined Innovation / Digital portfolio be pruned to identify what is to be parked and what will receive precious resources and funding.

The selected corporate startups need to accelerated on the commercial track and the technical track. They need to be transitioned to Scaling-Up and then developed rapidly into a sizeable business. The Lean Scaleup™ framework provides Best Practice insight into what needs to be done.