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Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Your Company’s Next Big Growth Strategy: 10 Years Later

Authors : Erich Joachimsthaler, Agathe Blanchon-Ehrsam, Markus Zinnbauer

Published in: Marketing Wisdom

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

In 2007, we created the Demand-first Innovation and Growth model (DIG).This framework proposed a systematic, repeatable process to help brands identify the biggest opportunities for innovation and growth hidden in plain sight. By creating an innovation playbook and accompanying strategy, companies could then effectively leverage those opportunities for substantial new growth.

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Footnotes
1
Joachimsthaler (2007); see for some recent discussion in: Zinnbauer and Rennhak (2015).
 
2
See Joachimsthaler (2007); Joachimsthaler (2008a, b); For additional examples on the recent literature on blind spots, see: Baird (2015), Kerle (2014).
 
3
See Hamel and Tennant (2015). Another study of 519 American, British and French companies found that fewer than half of the surveyed executives believe they have an “effective approach to new product development or are seeking innovation effectively: Koetzier and Alon (2013).
 
4
For example: Viki (2016).
 
5
Diener and Tay (2013). For some detailed descriptions of the methodology: Thomsen et al. (2011); Young (2008).
 
6
Joachimsthaler (2007), p. 105.
 
7
This and other questions can be found in: Nalebuff and Ayres (2003).
 
8
New business model reference, see: Osterwalder and Pigneur (2010); Girotra and Netessine (2014); de Jong and van Dijk (2015); Christensen et al. (2016).
 
9
Watson (2014)
 
10
Beard (2017).
 
11
Collis and Rukstad (2008) and David Collis (2016). David Collis is an advisory board member of Vivaldi Group.
 
12
Aaker and Joachimsthaler (2009). Originally published by The Free Press New York in 2000.
 
13
Annan (2012).
 
14
We use a methodology known as reconstruction of moments or episodes: Joachimsthaler and Pfeiffer (2010).
 
15
For an example of one of many mobile phone tracking solutions today, see: Macdonald et al. (2010).
 
16
Additional sources: Stock and Tupot (2015) or Holt and Cameron (2010). McCracken (2009).
 
17
Joachimsthaler (2007), p. 72.
 
18
Joachimsthaler (2007), p. 64; and also: Robertson (2017).
 
19
Keeley et al. (2013). An alternative framework is the innovation radar: Sawhney et al. (2006).
 
20
For a short explanation how brain storming and structuring thinking workshops can be used together, see: http://​bit.​ly/​2h2Zr6O, Michel (2014), Almquist (2016).
 
21
Doyle (2015).
 
22
Quito (2016).
 
23
For an entire outline of a design thinking bootscamp, see: Schmiedgen (2013), Merholz (2009), Tjendra (2013), Nussbaum (2011).
 
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Metadata
Title
Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Your Company’s Next Big Growth Strategy: 10 Years Later
Authors
Erich Joachimsthaler
Agathe Blanchon-Ehrsam
Markus Zinnbauer
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7724-1_5