Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future. A sustainable future that mobilizes action in searching for new economic thinking. One which incorporates a more circular model of … Continue reading “The value of three horizon mapping for a Sustainability Journey.”
Presently the three horizon model is argued as no longer applying to innovation as it has been suggested, or I feel so, in a recent article written by Steve Blank. Now I am a terrific admirer of Steve and his thinking but he does, I feel, rush to an assumption to fit one specific problem … Continue reading “How do you apply the three horizon framework in your thinking? Steve Blank you are limiting your thinking.”
There is huge value in applying the three horizon framework into your thinking. It is as useful a framework that you can get, to help decide where you are heading. It is not just for innovation application, that can determine innovation activities. It has multiple values in any organization thinking and alignment. The 3H informs … Continue reading “Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design”
Within our ‘business as usual’ attitudes, there actually lies the seeds of destruction. Today there is a relentless pace; we are facing stagnation in many maturing markets if we don’t evolve. Yet we actually subvert the future to prolong the life of the existing. We need to frame our innovation needs differently for exploring and … Continue reading “Exploring the Rich Tapestry within the Three Horizon Framework”
As you may know, I have been writing significantly around the Three Horizons in relationship to innovation. Initially drawing on the foundation within the McKinsey initial papers, updated here under their enduring ideas, and in particular based on by its original authors of the book “The Alchemy of Growth” by Mehrdad Baghai, Steve Coley, David … Continue reading “The Three Horizons – Providing a Common Language in its Innovation Use”
We so often struggle to articulate our innovation activity and then can’t seemingly project our plans into the future in consistent and coherent ways. We often lack the framing necessary. If this rings true of the innovation activity in your organization, then it is in danger of being seen as isolated, one-off events, that fail … Continue reading “Drawing out the different voices within the three horizon methodology for Innovation”
I’d like to relate to parts of a book that came out in late 2013 from Bill Sharpe, actually more a booklet, called “Three Horizons: The Patterning of Hope”, published by Triarchy Press, has some really helpful insights that is truly fields of future, full of foresight. In this book, Bill outlines his distinct ways … Continue reading “Three Horizons – fields of future, full of foresight.”
There is that prevailing sense that we are just managing the business, as usual, leaving many increasingly uncomfortable and feeling exposed to concerns over innovation in the future. Why? Our businesses are not adapting fast enough to changing conditions in the market, often lagging in the competitive race to update and keep relevant. Businesses are … Continue reading “Reflecting on the Three Horizon Model for our Innovatation in the Future”
One of my most exciting areas within my innovation activities is applying the three horizon methodology, for working through the ‘appropriate’ lenses for different innovations and their future management. Let me outline the rationale for adopting this within your organization. Clarifying our options requires multiple thinking horizons For me, the three horizons have great value … Continue reading “Mapping innovation across the three horizons”
I have planned to explore in three simultaneous blogs, a trilogy of blogs, the three horizon model more extensively. It is a most valuable one to build into your thinking about strategy and innovation. This is the final blog of the trilogy on the Three Horizon Framework and offers my thinking on an emerging framing … Continue reading “The Navigation of the Three Horizon Framework- An Emerging Guide.”
