I was delighted to read Steve Blank’s great post featuring the work of my friend and colleague Marc Gruber. Marc and I have been colleagues since my days in the entrepreneurship program at Wharton and he continues with his research and teaching in this area at EPFL. Steve has recently discovered Marc’s 2017 book Where…
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A Sample DDP for an entrepreneurial business
While looking for something else, I ran across this post which provides an outline for an entrepreneurial business using the discovery driven planning framework. I know many of you are always keen to find additional examples and applications, so I thought I'd provide a link.
Questions to help you place projects on our Opportunity Portfolio
I had a most enjoyable day yesterday teaching in the Punch Sulzberger program, a joint venture between our Journalism and Business Schools at Columbia. The program seeks to help news journalists figure out what the future holds for them, and it is always a highlight of my year. One of the tools we use in…
BareBones NPV calculator file in Excel 2003 format
Many of you have expressed an interest in using the “BareBones” NPV calculator that we describe in the book. We’re in the process of getting this tool loaded on the Discovery Driven Growth web site, but in the meantime, you can download the file from here by clicking on the filename below. This is the…
Consumer Leverage Ratio - A tool to measure the ticking credit time bomb lurking for your customers
My co-author, Ian MacMillan and one of his colleagues, William Jarvis have just weighed in on a topic near and dear to my heart—the deadly situations companies create when they lend more and more to over-extended consumers (see post on why the smartest behavioral economists in the world work for credit card companies). In an…
Software Tools that Support Discovery Driven Growth
Many of you have inquired about software tools that can support your efforts at thriving under uncertain conditions. MacMillan and I have partnered with Alan Abrahams of Virginia Tech to create and distribute some supporting tools, which are available at the Cameron Associates web site for a nominal fee. These include some tools for developing…
Discovery Driven Growth - Biobarrier spreadsheet
Attached is one version of the “BioBarrier” spreadsheet that many of you have been asking for. DDP_BIOBARRIER.xls
Discovery Driven Planning - BareBones NPV calculator tools
Hello there. Many of you have expressed an interest in the “BareBones” NPV calculator that we use in Discovery Driven Growth. We’re just getting up on that web site now, but those of you who would like a copy right away can download it here: BareBones_2_0.xls. This tool was developed by Adrian Becker. Let me…