Strategic Innovation: Road-Mapping VadiK Inventor Author Founder     How to choose and do the right things       Goals of Road-Mapping and Innovation Management Road=mapping – to chose and do the right things Innovation management – to do these things well Why Road-Mapping? The goal of the road-mapping is to develop the innovation strategy – to choose and do the right things. The goal of innovation management is to implement this strategy well. Road-mapping leads to effective project portfolio development and management. It provides for company-wide technological strategy development and technology assessment, as well as division-level project evaluation and strategic aligning. Road-mapping tools provide also a common language for innovation and building bridges between technologists and business managers within your corporation, and with you major suppliers and customers. Product Roadmap Product roadmaps define new product and service initiatives within a market or technology context. They embody a large percentage of the corporate strategy and provide a degree of tangibility that helps bring together other choices in direction, technology, marketing and so forth to the surface.     Furthermore, starting with product roadmaps forces people to be explicit about how their ideas translate into new products or services. It is vital for developing product roadmaps to discover assumptions beneath the selection of products. Sample Job Description >> Product Strategy   3 Strategies of Market Leaders  New-To-the-World Product Development   OFP Roadmap       Technology Road-Mapping The linkage of corporate business strategy and technology strategy plays an important role in firms’ success. Technology forecasting, technology assessment and product planning are integrated by road-mapping. Road-mapping is a powerful integrated device for improving the quality of technology management and integration of various activities. A good technology road-mapping, such as Delphi Strategy Writing (WSR) Method for Road-Mapping, could perform more generic technology management functions... More   Technology Strategy Technology Mapping  Futures Thinking Approaches Questions Radical Project Management 10 Commandments of Innovation Business Model         Innovation Process A-Z/360       Questions the Roadmap Team Focuses On What are the trends and discontinuities in relation to customer needs and desires, technological development, system and product/service attributes? How to align the corporate goals and strategies in relation to these trends? Does the company has skills and talent to manage and execute these changes? What strategic partnerships need to be built? How much capital and resources will be required?   INNOBALL Entrepreneurial Simulation Game  Achieve MUCH MORE! Create a Stronger Business Case  Create a Stronger Business Model Reduce Risks         Industry Roadmap The task of the roadmap team is to formulate an event map that will signal potential disruptions within the industry and reflects your competitors' migration patterns.       With a general industry map and an event map you can identify current and future players in your industry, what the financial opportunities will be, and define strategic partnerships to be formed in order to get access to necessary competencies. Strategies of Market Leaders Technology foresight is good for followers. Market leaders create create radical innovations, new trends, new customer desires, blue-ocean market spaces, and – sometimes – civilizational breakthroughs.   Proactive Futuring STAND OUT Surprise To Win Strategic Creativity How To Create a Strategic Intent Disruption Strategy Icebreaker Marketing       How To Create New Trends