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Successful Venture Scaling – the Learning Series While the success of corporate venture building is undeniable, a significant gap remains in guiding founders through the critical scaling stage. We're launching a series of more than 50 mini-white papers, each spotlighting a specific sub-dimension of these business dimensions in venture scaling. In our journey through the strategic framework, we start with the core: Vision and Mission. This is where every venture begins its path to growth, laying down the fundamental beliefs and objectives that drive its future. Vision and mission are the very pillars that support and guide a venture's strategy, influencing every decision and action.

Successful Venture Scaling – the Learning Series While the success of corporate venture building is undeniable, a significant gap remains in guiding founders through the critical scaling stage. In a bid to share this knowledge widely, we're launching a series of more than 50 mini-white papers, each spotlighting a specific sub-dimension of these business dimensions. We have already looked at your target market when assessing if you have reached your product-market fit. Your market needs to be clearly defined, as this is the foundation of all your marketing and sales standardizations and automation. If you determine your market incorrectly, your marketing and sales efforts will diminish. This would also be toxic for your product/service development as you would probably develop for the wrong customer group. You also have to understand your target market size, customers, and relevant revenue in your offering area. Without this information, you cannot set realistic revenue and profit targets for your teams, and all your business plans will become useless.

Successful Venture Scaling – the Learning Series While the success of corporate venture building is undeniable, a significant gap remains in guiding founders through the critical scaling stage. Recognizing this, we have crafted a unique framework for venture scaling, distilled into an accessible and comprehensive book. As we delve deeper into the Strategy dimension with a focus on the Value Proposition, we emphasize its pivotal role in differentiating your venture in a crowded marketplace. A robust value proposition articulates the unique value your venture promises to deliver. It sets the foundation for all strategic communications and market positioning, ensuring that every facet of your venture is aligned to deliver on this promise, maintaining consistency across product development, customer service, and marketing strategies. #Venture #BusinessScaling #VentureBuilding

Innovation isn't just about producing new products to meet evolving market demands – it's about transforming every aspect of your business. Our latest guide explores the core principles of innovation, from creativity and adaptation to value creation and beyond. Discover how to navigate emerging trends and technologies, and to activate the talented innovators on your team 🧪 Get the guidance you need to take on innovation in 2024. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eSNhBhPW #InnovationStrategy #BusinessGrowth #DigitalTransformation

Successful Venture Scaling – the Learning Series While the success of corporate venture building is undeniable, a significant gap remains in guiding founders through the critical scaling stage. In a bid to share this knowledge widely, we're launching a series of more than 50 mini-white papers. Whether you're seeking the full breadth of our scaling framework or wish to engage our experts directly, this series—and the book it draws from—provides the guidance you need for successful venture scaling. The first scaling framework dimension is strategy. This dimension sums up everything that gives your venture a longer-term perspective. Starting from the vision and leading to investor relations, the subdimensions of strategy are often the venture founders’ responsibility. The topics in this chapter are unique; they are the only topics that must be known throughout your entire venture, from the beginning of the building phase to long after the scaling phase. They give direction and can unify your venture if prepared and communicated correctly. Make sure you plan for that communication part, maybe more than once. Your employees must understand the common goal everyone is working for.

When building new value propositions, legacy systems often impede the speed of deployment for new solutions within organisations. Fortunately, Nande Nqoloba (MBA) offers a compelling strategy to navigate this challenge. By pinpointing your organisation's core strengths and skill sets, and forging strategic alliances with external partners that complement these assets, you can collaboratively generate new, innovative value propositions. This proactive approach allows companies to sidestep the inertia of legacy systems and achieve the swift realisation of new concepts and solutions 🔥 Access more insights from Nande and other corporate innovation experts by watching our recent webinar👇 https://lnkd.in/espeAbp9 #DigitalTransformation #EnterpriseSolutions #BusinessGrowth #SustainableDevelopment #EmergingMarkets #Innovation

Remaining agile while still adhering to long-term goals can be complex. South African corporations and large entities face the challenges of economic pressures, political dynamics, advancements in tech, and evolving customer needs. Sivan Lapidus, Senior Design Director for Digital Banking at Absa Group, believes it best to take a balanced approach to manage these factors. You can allow your organisation's long-term strategy to provide a framework for direction while still encouraging and allowing flexibility for adaptation to market changes. By making use of tools like the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for quarterly planning, Sivan explained that corporations and larger companies can, in fact, practically enable swift responses to emerging opportunities or challenges without compromising on their long-term strategy. This is one of many valuable insights shared by our panellists in the webinar discussion 'Navigating Corporate Challenges in South Africa’s Emerging Market Landscape'. Watch the webinar or read our top takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/espeAbp9 #InnovationLeaders #DesigningValuePropositions #ProcessImprovement #TechnologyInnovation #DigitalTransformation #EnterpriseSolutions

The power of human-centred design is becoming more evident as we become increasingly exposed to AI-developed content and interactions. Particularly, 'empathy' is a quality being highlighted as a core differentiator between these experiences. As Robyn Moore, Founder and CEO of CLQ, explained it, "Human-centred design is anchored in empathy and deeply understanding how people think and behave around and within certain markets and industries. When we come to understanding humans, we don't just look at demographic information." Explore the core of human-centred design and recognise its pivotal role in crafting impactful value propositions, products, and solutions, by watching the webinar discussion, ‘Designing Value Propositions for Emerging Markets.' Access the recording:  https://lnkd.in/e2YNEBez #DesigningValuePropositions #EmergingMarkets #Innovation

When survival hinges on innovation, companies must explore unconventional tactics to stay relevant and competitive. In our recent webinar, Chris Bruchhausen (Strove) shed light on a strategic move by industry leader Amazon: 👉 deploying dedicated teams tasked with competing against its own products and solutions. This pragmatic approach not only nurtures a culture of innovation but also ensures Amazon stays ahead in swiftly changing markets and seasons. Discover more insights from Chris and fellow panellists, Sivan Lapidus (Absa Group) and Nande Nqoloba (MBA), as they delve into innovation strategies for South Africa’s corporations: https://lnkd.in/espeAbp9 #InnovationLeaders #DesigningValuePropositions #TechnologyInnovation #DigitalTransformation #EnterpriseSolutions #BusinessGrowth #EmergingMarkets #Innovation

📣 Corporate innovators, are you looking for a game-changing solution to tackle your organisation's toughest innovation challenges? Look no further than the Design Sprint. This proven framework has revolutionised how SMEs and corporations approach innovation. In just a few days, the Design Sprint condenses months of work into a structured process covering idea generation, prototyping, and user testing. 👉 But what makes the Design Sprint truly special? It's its ability to unblock common internal challenges such as unclear problem definition, slow decision-making, idea stagnation, siloed teams, and resistance to change. By compressing the innovation process and fostering a culture of experimentation and risk-taking, the Design Sprint empowers teams to drive meaningful change. 🌱 Learn more about the Design Sprint and how it can be catalyst for long-term innovation and growth: https://lnkd.in/e9pKPeBu  #DesignSprint #Innovation #ProblemSolving #Collaboration #DeltaInnovate