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Ideation to execution: Scaling new ideas for growth
Ideation to execution: Scaling new ideas for growth

October 11, 2022

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Drive greater business growth by incorporating these three keys that turn inspiration into reality!

Product and service innovation are the core engines of business growth. The modern economy is populated by companies that bring high-value solutions to market and are rightly rewarded for their innovation. Take next-day shipping – the concept itself is relatively simple, but in the background, teams must radically evolve processes and operating models to support it. And now, with same-day delivery services rapidly becoming the norm, business leaders must again look to sweeping change across supply chains, operations, and core business processes.

This ability to bring agile, disciplined and effective processes to support new ideas is swiftly becoming the point of differentiation across industries. Take, for example, how fintech’s are revolutionizing the payments industry with their disruptive approach to innovation.

The ability to quickly operationalize ideas—often creating entirely new product categories in the process—is symbolic of the critical capabilities that separate winners from also-rans. At our organization, we have worked with numerous clients on solving the challenges that crop up when bringing new ideas to market. When solving for the challenging dimension that is execution, we’ve identified three steps that help turn minimum viable processes—the operations layer pulled together to quickly bring new products to market—into powerful engines.

1.    Build the right crew

When a Formula One driver takes to the track, they need to focus all their energy on racing. They know that they have a team that excels at keeping the vehicle in top condition—which enables them to focus on the track and the competition, rather than worrying about loose bolts and oil levels.

In much the same way, disruptors and digital innovators must focus on developing market-leading products and services with their eyes firmly on their customers. To do so, while also scaling quickly, they must rely on a well-oiled operations layer that provides frameworks, processes and technologies that remove distractions. A layer designed to bring an abundance of data and insights to the surface to drive operational changes and enhancements—empowering leaders to measure everything that moves in their quest, to bring true innovation to market.

2.    Stay agile

Let’s say it’s started to rain, creating a completely different environment for our race driver. They have a fresh strategy based on the new conditions. They need their engineering team to flexibly and rapidly swap out tires, change settings and get them back on track. And if this strategy doesn’t pan out, the team must be ready in the pits to make changes again.

This ability to build agile business processes increases opportunities to incorporate a flexible planning and creation process bringing together cross-functional teams to generate targeted solutions. It ensures we stay relevant and responsive to the demands of the market by making process workflows more efficient and effective—giving us a competitive advantage.

 

3.    Optimize everything

Scaling up an idea and the processes that power, it is also about efficiency. How do you reach as many customers as possible while keeping costs in check? To ensure the business can sustainably scale and grow, it’s vital to continually drive out redundancies and inefficiencies, ensuring processes are as effective and disciplined as possible.

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By driving down costs with effective operations, market-leading businesses will ensure new products and services hit the market with strong financial metrics attached and the most effective value proposition—whether that’s so they continue to experiment with offerings, or go-to-market strategy, or to develop a more compelling business model.

Successful modern businesses anticipate change and are ready to intuitively pivot, even as their speed is increasing. Operations must be equally flexible and able to respond to everything from seizing new opportunities to reacting to volatile business environments.

Summary

As John Doerr said: Ideas are easy, execution is everything. To delight customers and capture market opportunity fast, businesses must build and scale an operating model that can support ideation, experimentation and development. They must also swiftly operationalize the best ideas, transforming them from inspired concepts into market-winning solutions. 

This article was written by Ollie O’Donoghue, a Senior Director in Cognizant Research in collaboration with Vikram Ahuja, Ashish Batra and Manish Gulati, Technology Leaders in Cognizant’s Intuitive  Operations and Automation practice.


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