I also ran across this presentation from one of our entrepreneurship professor colleagues – it’s a nice overview of business planning in a venturing context.
Discovery Driven Planning
Discovery Driven Planning featured on marketing web site
For those of you interested in different applications of the discovery driven planning idea, you might want to visit the Market Remarks web site. Sunil Sharma, who runs the web site has also incorporated a… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Most barriers to growth are self-inflicted
I am spending today with a very well-managed, large company, and even here the long fingers of the economic slowdown are creating even more obstacles to innovation – led growth than in more ‘normal’ times…. Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning & Teaching in Non-Degree Executive Education Programs
I’m just here at the Strategic Management Society’s annual conference in Cologne. It’s a meeting which aspires to bring together academics, consultants and business-people for fruitful dialogue and exchanges, although in fairness the tilt does… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Why I like the term ‘business model’
I rather like the term business model because in my view it suggests a change to the way that we conceive of, create, and execute strategies. In highly uncertain, complex and fast-moving environments, strategies are… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Good new book on Innovation
It’s always a welcome moment when a new perspective on innovation is offered from the folks over at Clayton Christensen’s Innosight consulting firm. They’ve just recently published a new book, The Innovator’s Guide to Growth… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Not just for new businesses any more
The headlines are all around us – I just returned from a fascinating session in Seattle at the Microsoft Global Chief Information Officer summit to a pile of newspapers screaming “Washington Mutual Goes Under” and… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Debunking dumb entrepreneurial ideas
Wired magazine runs a regular column by “Mr. Know-It-All” in which the great mysteries of our time—such as how to retrieve porn from a laptop you’ve loaned to a friends’ child and what the correct… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Getting a handle on key metrics
A critical part of a discovery driven plan is understanding your assumptions about what makes some assumptions more important than others. This gets into the question of what we call your ‘key metrics’ – the… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Calculating a “BareBones” Net Present Value (NPV)
Although Net Present Value calculations are often blamed for companies’ under-investing in innovation projects, and are a big problem for people trying to drive growth into new areas, it can be useful to get some… Read more »
Discovery Driven Marketing Planning in the Health care area
Here’s another group using Discovery Driven Planning – in this case to develop better marketing plans for health care information technology clients. What I found interesting about their approach is that they contrast the DDP… Read more »
Another application for discovery driven planning: Business Intelligence Projects
One of the neat things about discovery driven planning is watching how it has become popular with quite a large set of consultants, venture managers, entrepreneurs and other people for whom conventional planning is just… Read more »