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Today’s guest is the Innovation legend Alex Osterwalder - 5x best-selling author, inventor of the widely known Business Model Canvas (BMC), and Founder & CEO at Strategyzer.
We covered a lot of ground here. Everything from unpacking the transformation of Strategizer from a consulting firm to a scalable SaaS platform, to Alex’s hard-won lessons from his journey navigating the tension between exploration and execution, the power of innovation scorecards, why CEOs must own innovation if they want their organizations to survive, where founders and teams go wrong - and a lot more.
This is a masterclass on turning vision into systems, managing risk, and learning how (and when) to kill your own ideas.
We discussed:
Why business cases are just fantasies - until tested
How to balance Explore and Exploit
Why CEOs should spend 40% of their time on innovation
How to design a system to manage risk and kill ideas quickly
Why strategic clarity enables innovation autonomy - and how to get there
Running multiple ideas in parallel, testing different business models
Team set up and traits & skills you need
Examples of successful companies
Check out Strategyzer’s platform and guided programs here!
I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did - and make sure you check out Alex’s work (you can also hear my conversation with David Bland - co-author with Alex of the book Testing Business Ideas - in the very first episode of the podcast)
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