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THE INNOVATION BOOTCAMP
January - 2009
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What do you See?
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What do you See?
Obvious: Zero, Circle, Dot
Less Obvious: Wheel, Plate, Dish
Even Less Obvious: New Moon, Solar
Eclipse, Mole, Seed
Hidden: Top of a Nail, Sphere, Cylinder
Answer: Top of a Head
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What do you See?
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Today’s Agenda
• About me
• Wisdom from Innovators
• The Innovation Index
• Business Innovation Success
• Apple Case Study
• Web 2.0
• SCAMPER
• Key Takeaways
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Sanjay Dalal
Chief Innovator
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Sanjay Dalal
• Innovator, Entrepreneur and Investor
• Author of Faculty eBook on Innovation in Business
• Founder of the Innovation Index
• President & Managing Director, Innovation Index Group
• Fifteen years leadership experience at High Tech companies
• Joint U.S. Patent, First Position Putnam Math Competition
• B.S.E.E., UT, Austin; Management Certification Cornell University
• Member, Dean’s Leadership Circle, UC Irvine Business School
• Basketball Coach, Art Master, Student Site Council
• Active Rotarian and philanthropist
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INNOVATION SERVICES, STRATEGY & CONSULTING
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• No-nonsense insights, strategy and solutions with
proven processes that drive Creativity and
Innovation at your business, create real market
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SUCCESS New People
Business Processes
Culture
Innovations Partners
Networks
Ideas
Creativity
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Who is an Innovator?
• A business
• A person – employee or partner?
• Do businesses create innovators?
• Do innovators create businesses?
• Is there a difference: Innovator vs.
Entrepreneur?
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Wisdom from Innovators
• \"Failure is our most important product.\"
R W Johnson, Jr., Former CEO, Johnson &
Johnson
Never Lost Money
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Wisdom from Innovators
• \"Our company has, indeed, stumbled
onto some of its new products. But
never forget that you can only stumble
if you're moving.\" Richard P. Carlton,
Former CEO, 3M Corporation
• Considered as perhaps most innovative
company of last century – Scotch, Post-it
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Leadership and Innovation
• Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart:
“I have always been driven to buck
the system, to innovate, to take
things beyond where they've
been.”
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Thomas Alva Edison – An Innovator
unlike any other
• \"Genius is one per cent inspiration and
ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a
talented person who has done all of his
or her homework.”
• The three things that are most essential to
achievement are common sense, hard
work and stick-to-it-iv-ness...
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Leonardo Da Vinci – An age-old
Innovator
• “There are three classes of people:
Those who see. Those who see
when they are shown. Those who do
not see.”
•Innovators foresee – Art,
Science & Experience
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Steve Jobs – Today’s Innovator
• “Innovation distinguishes between a
leader and a follower.”
• “Innovation has nothing to do with
how many R&D dollars you have…It’s
about the people you have, how
you’re led and how much you get it.”
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Steve Jobs – Today’s Innovator
• Leadership – Leader & Follower
• People – Culture – Co-creators
• Processes – How you’re led
• Comprehension – How much you get
it
Get it, Got it, Good!
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Six Ways to Find Innovation
#1
Stand in different
places
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Six Ways to Find Innovation
#2
Use the lenses of
other domains
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Six Ways to Find Innovation
#3
Ask powerful
questions
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Six Ways to Find Innovation
#4
Foster new
knowledge
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Six Ways to Find Innovation
#5
Create a visual verbal
journal
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Six Ways to Find Innovation
#6
Change the pace of
attention
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Three Takeaways
• Innovators see beyond the ordinary,
and yet have real common sense
• Innovations necessitate lots of failed
experiments & hard work to uncover the
latent customer need
• Innovations require processes to think
creatively, ideate and experiment
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The Innovation Index
• Founded in December 2006
• Weighted Index of the Top Innovative
Companies
• The Innovation Index is a performance
index of the Top 20 Innovators in North
America
• Correlates stock, business and innovation
performance
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Top 20 Innovators - 2008
3M Company Google
Amazon.com Hewlett-Packard
America Movil Intel
Apple IBM
AT&T Merck
Best Buy McDonald's
Cisco Systems Microsoft
Costco NIKE
eBay Research In Motion
General Electric Proctor & Gamble
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Top Global Innovators
• Business Models – Netflix News Corp Reliance HP
eBay Vodafone Apple Dell Web 2.0
• Products – Apple Sony Nintendo Microsoft Nokia TATA
RIM Honda 3M GM Audi Boeing Intel Samsung Daimler
Cisco Siemens Verizon
• Customer Experience – Google BMW Disney Virgin
McDonald’s Southwest Air Amazon Nike Costco
Singapore Air Facebook AT&T Target Starbucks
• Processes – Toyota GE HP P&G IBM Wal-mart Exxon
Mobil BP
Source: BusinessWeek
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The Innovation Index
• Innovation Index Performance (2006-07)
• Average of 67 innovations per Innovator
• 805 new and enhanced products
• 411 strategic collaborations & partnerships
• 95 new acquisitions
• Combined market cap grew by 11% to $2.23
trillion from $2.01 trillion in 2006, an average
increase of $11 billion per Innovator
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Top 20 Innovators - 2008

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Top-Down Bottom-Up
Innovations Innovations
Management / Customers and
Source of ideas
Partners
Your Organization users
Internal resources, Deep
Drivers Innate
product, understanding of
need
positioning customer needs
Structured and Spontaneous and
Interaction
Open
managed non-linear
Go to the customer Invite customer to
Strategy
Co-creation
participate
Linear and strictly Emergent and
Processes Ordered
defined serendipitous Chaos
Communities,
Methods Market research,
crowdsourcing,
surveys, focus Web 2.0
peer-production,
groups
social media
Source: dicole.com
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Three Takeaways
• Top Innovators grow their business
even in tough economic times
• Top Innovators innovate through
new products, collaborations,
partnerships, and acquisitions
• Top Innovators increasingly learn
and leverage Bottom-Up approach
for new innovations
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Innovation Success
• Question:
• How do you measure
Innovation Success?
• What is the benchmark?
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Business Innovation Success
• An Innovation that produces at least 5% of
company's total revenue (up to equal
margins) within three years after
commercial launch, and grows to at least
15% of company's total revenue (with
equal or better margins) within eight years
of commercial launch is 100% successful.
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At least $500 million annual revenue or
Company A
5 years in business
Innovation ABC Launch
Time Within 3 years from Launch
Innovation Revenue At least 5% of company annual revenue
Innovation Margins Close to equal margins
FIRST MILESTONE Innovation ABC 50% Successful
REACHED
CONTINUE / EXPAND Innovation ABC Funding
Time Within 8 years from Launch
At least 15% of company annual
Innovation Revenue
revenue
Innovation Margins Equal or better margins
SECOND MILESTONE Innovation ABC 100% Successful
REACHED
FUND NEW INITIATIVES
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Successful Innovation
Apple iPod

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Successful Innovation
Apple iPhone

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Three Takeaways
• Create metrics to benchmark
business innovation
• Measure the success of your new
innovations (don’t be mislead by PR)
• Create institutional memories to
repeat success and avoid same
mistakes
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Apple
• Apple Computer, Inc.
• or
• Apple, Inc.
• Question:
• What is Apple?
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Apple today
• “We’re armed with the strongest
product line in our history, the most
talented employees and the best
customers in our industry. And $25
billion of cash safely in the bank
with zero debt,” Steve Jobs, CEO of
Apple
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Apple iPhone
Launched June 2007
Over 5 million sold in 1 year
Over 10 million sold in 2008
At $499 an iPhone 
$2.5 Billion to $5 Billion in annual
Business. #3 Cellphone maker
Liftoff: 0 to $2.5 Billion+ in <1 year
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How did Apple do it?
• Increase revenue more than 400% in 8
years and some…
• Increase net profit more than 650% in 8
years and still growing…
• Increase market cap more than ten times
to over $85 billion in 8 years and
counting…
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Innovation in Products
• Redefined Macintosh line of desktops and laptops
beginning with iMac in 1998 and iBook in 1999
• iTunes store and iPod player in 2001.
• Innovative Macintosh desktops and laptops with new
line of MacBook, Mac Pro and Mac Mini in 2006
• Smartphone revolution with iPhone in 2007 and
iPhone 3G in 2008
• Software innovation with OS X – Leopard, Safari, the
new App Store for iPhone / iPod touch apps
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Innovation in Business Model
• Apple created industry first business model
on iTunes store by offering music downloads
to consumers for only 99 cents a song
• Apple created strategic partnerships with
major music labels to get royalty per sale
• Apple expanded these partnerships to movie
studios and TV networks to offer movie
rentals, new movies and TV shows
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Innovation in Business Model
• Apple created an exclusive relationship with
AT&T in U.S. for the iPhone launch – a first!
• Apple obtained subscription payment from AT&T
from the monthly data plans – a first!
• Apple significantly expanded iPhone 3G
distribution by establishing carrier relationships
in over 70 countries – still exclusive with AT&T
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Innovation in Customer Experience
• Apple introduced Apple Retail Stores in 2001
• Over 200 stores worldwide including 8
countries outside the U.S.
• Theme: “Come to shop. Return to learn”
• All things Apple. Great experience.
• Apple sells Apple products and accessories
through Apple Online Store
• iTunes store: Music, Movies, TV, Apps
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Innovation in Customer Experience
• Apple Retail Stores
• Highest sales per square foot
• Innovative storefront design
• Open, customer-friendly atmosphere with
highly knowledgeable sales reps
• Great customer experience
• Apple Online Store
• iTunes store - #1 Music Store + Movies, TV, Apps
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iPod Opportunity
iTunes App Store potentially redefines iPod touch
into a hand-held gaming console and can
significantly expand Apple’s footprint into the
gaming market! Games are way cheap!
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• Advanced chemistry, intelligent monitoring of the
system and battery, and Adaptive Charging
technology to create a revolutionary new
notebook battery that delivers up to eight hours
of wireless productivity on a single charge and
up to 1,000 recharges without adding thickness,
weight or cost to the MacBook Pro’s incredible
design.* The longer battery lifespan equals
fewer depleted batteries and less waste, which
is better for the environment.
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How Apple Innovates?
• Establish Apple as the best COOL brand
• Marketing, Website, Retail stores, Products – Everything!!
• Envision & Create the best COOL products
• iPod, iPhone, MacBook, Air, Pro, Retail Stores..Next generation
• Deliver best-of-breed, highest quality products & service
• Precision, Performance, Design, Technology, Experience
• Capture emerging consumer landscapes & trends
• Media & Entertainment confluence, Entertainment + Hand-held
gaming consoles, Business & Leisure, Green, Software apps
• Grow the ecosystem of partners
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Apple – Top Innovator
• Innovation and Leadership
• Innovation in Products
• Innovation in Business Model
• Innovation in Customer Experience
• Innovation in People and Processes
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Web 2.0
• Question:
• What is Web 2.0?
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Business Model Innovation
• New Web 2.0 framework,
and the new Web 2.0
Business Models
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2.0
1.0
Web 2.0
• Strategic Shift – One way Interaction between
people and computers (websites), to Multi-way
Interactions between people and people, and
people and machines where people become
co-creators.
• People and networks share and co-create all
types of content, and provide context to business
processes. Biggest successes: Myspace,
Youtube, Facebook, Blogger, Wikipedia
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Web 2.0 business models
■ Create a large/focused niche user community (many)
■ Sell API access (Google)
■ Sell services to a large group of SMEs (Salesforce.com,
Citrix, NetSuite, Sugar CRM)
■ Sell data to partners (Facebook? :))
■ Get a revenue share from transactions (eBay)
■ Sell advertisements (MySpace, Google, Yahoo)
■ Sell value-added platform (Amazon Web Services)
■ Freemium - Sell premium memberships (Livejournal)
■ Sell your company (Youtube)
Source: dicole.com
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Types of Business Models
• •
Brokerage Affiliate
• •
Advertising Community
• •
Infomediary Subscription
• •
Merchant Utility
• Manufacturer
(Direct)
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Three Takeaways
• Web 2.0 is for real (just like eBusiness)
• Business must redefine itself to
embrace Web 2.0 for new innovations
• Processes to “open up” & “extend out”
to partners and build the network –
co-creation, participation, openness,
standards, decentralization, users
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SCAMPER
Generation of
ideas to change
something.
Use powerful
action verbs.
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SCAMPER examples
• Business Process Outsourcing – Substitute
• Apple iPhone, Smartphones – Combine
• Digg, RSS feeds, News subscriptions – Adapt
• MP3 Technology and MP3 Players – Minimize
• Online Super Stores – Magnify
• Grocery Store Check Out Receipt – Put to other uses
• Standard versions of Software and Trials – Eliminate
• Department Stores – Rearrange
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SCAMPER Problem
• iTunes Store: New business model of
69 cents, 99 cents, $1.29 for songs
• What could have Apple done
differently?
• Substitute, Combine, Adapt,
Minimize, Magnify, Put to other Uses,
Eliminate, Reverse, Rearrange
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Key Takeaways
• Successful Innovations accelerate & grow business,
and provide sustainable competitive advantage
• I can be an Innovator – Learn, Learn, Learn
• Questions, Institutional memory, Mistakes,
Common sense, Hard work, Six ways, Bottom-Up,
Creativity Tools, Successes – Never give up!
• Build an Innovation Factory e.g. Apple
• Products, Design, Experience, People, Culture,
Processes, Partners, Networks, Web 2.0
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Questions?
• Creativity begins with asking questions…
• Innovation happens when you find
answers…
• No questions, no answer
• More questions, better answer
• “The important thing is never to stop
questioning.” - Albert Einstein
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