The skeleton of a discovery driven plan has to do with the key metrics that you use to make assumptions, and which drive the relationships among the elements featured in your plan. It is often… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning
Discovery Driven Planning: Getting started and a dog-walking example
To develop a discovery driven plan, you’ll proceed through five interlinked steps. These are: Start with a compelling outcome – meaning, know what would make the investment worthwhile Benchmark your ideas against market demand and… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Getting started and a dog-walking example
To develop a discovery driven plan, you’ll proceed through five interlinked steps. These are: Start with a compelling outcome – meaning, know what would make the investment worthwhile Benchmark your ideas against market demand and… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Different from conventional planning
Discovery Driven Planning was developed because years of research showed that companies using conventional planning methods to invest in new opportunities were systematically failing. When we researched the reasons, we found that conventional planning leads… Read more »
The Despair of Entrepreneurship Professors are perennially popular but doomed business ideas
One of the most dreaded aspects of being an entrepreneurship professor are the hundreds of times that students will come up with the same – bad – business concept when tasked with building businesses of… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning alive and well and living on Wikipedia
Well, it’s been said that you can find out a lot about just about anything on Wikipedia (although you should always double-check what you’ve found!). It was gratifying therefore to see that Discovery Driven Planning… Read more »
Is your company unintentionally creating executive blind spots?
One of the nice things about being a very senior executive with a multinational company is that the job comes with perks. Sometimes, however, these perks can have the unintended effect of isolating key decision-makers… Read more »