Introduction
- Main Cases
- Tools
Figure I.2: The wide-lens perspective on innovation strategy. Page 7
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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Resources
The Wide Lens—Frameworks
Why Things Go Wrong When You Do Everything Right
Ch. 1 Why Things Go Wrong
- Main Cases Run Flat Tires
- Tools Innovation Risk Framework
Figure 1.5: The three risks of innovation. Page 34
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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Co-Innovation Risk: Seeing the Real Odds When You Don’t Innovate Alone
Ch. 2 Co-innovation Risk
- Main Cases 3G Telephony
- Tools Multiplying Risks
Figure 2.4: The difference between independent and joint probabilities. Page 48
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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Adoption Chain Risk: Seeing All the Customers Before Your End Customer
Ch. 3 Adoption Chain Risk
- Main Cases Digital Cinema
- Tools Broken Links
Figure 3.3: Surplus along the adoption chain for two innovations. Expect failure if any link is negative. Page 63
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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Mapping the Ecosystem: Identifying Pieces and Places
Ch. 4 Mapping the Ecosystem
- Main Cases eBooks and Inhalable Insulin
- Tools Value Blueprint
Figure 4.1: A generic value blueprint maps the actors and the links that make up the ecosystem. Page 87
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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Roles and Relationships: To Lead or Follow in the Innovation Ecosystem?
Ch. 5 Roles and Relationships
- Main Cases Electronic Health Records
- Tools Leadership Prism
Figure 5.1: A generic leadership prism identifies all the actors in the ecosystem and the surplus they expect from participating. Page 118
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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The Right Place and the Right Time: When Does the Early Bird Get the Worm?
Ch. 6 Right Place, Right Time
- Main Cases Music Players and Semiconductor Lithography
- Tools First Mover Matrix
Figure 6.1: First-mover matrix for determining relative advantage from early entry as a function of the level of innovator execution challenge and complementor co-innovation challenge. (Adapted from Adner and Kapoor, 2010) Page 149
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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Changing the Game: Reconfiguring the Ecosystem to Work for You
Ch. 7 Changing The Game
- Main Cases Electric Car and Better Place
- Tools 5 Levers
Figure 7.3: The five levers of ecosystem reconfiguration. Page 178
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
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Sequencing Success: Winning the Connected Game
Ch. 8 Sequencing Success
- Main Cases M-PESA and Apple
- Tools 3 Principles
Figure 8.4: Alternative paths to reaching full scale ecosystem deployment contrasting a traditional pilot demonstration followed by a phased rollout and a minimum viable ecosystem (MVE) rollout followed by a staged expansion. Page 204
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
Portfolio/Penguin, New York.
Multiplying Your Odds of Success
Ch. 9 Multiplying Your Odds of Success
- Main Cases
- Tools
Source: Ron Adner, 2013. The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss.
Portfolio/Penguin, New York.