Wall Street bases company valuations on their profit & growth trends. Most organizations in need of significant growth usually feel their development resources are underperforming. They feel there are not enough internal organic “big ideas” coming to the market quickly enough. Management gets distracted debating the merits of:

• Pursuing “home runs” vs. “singles & doubles”
• Copying the winners in their space or cutting a new path of their own

In response to the increasing focus and pressure some development teams may shift into a “grab anything / do everything” downward spiral. While others become focused solely on growth through mergers & acquisitions in their own space; or more dangerously, in one they have neither the experience nor depth of knowledge in yet.

What is needed is:

• A clear development roadmap that drives strategic “Platform Mining”©
• Aligned to the core business strategy
• Robust enough for enduring and deep continuous innovation.
• An effective Rapid-fire Innovation© development & commercialization process that ensures:
• A continuous stream of innovations to the market with an acceptable success rate

It’s amazing how many resource draining distractions go away when a company is growing. Customer confidence, employee politics, and shareholder issues all come into more positive alignment when a company has a significant (and profitable) growth momentum.
We have successfully assisted many highly regarded organizations in their reigniting innovation for profitable growth:

• Kimberly Clark
• The Kellogg Company
• Ford Motor Company
• RR Donnelly
• Speakman Company
• Nu skin International
• Scott Paper Company
• Bank of America
• PriceWaterhouse Coopers