Finding a Lower-Risk Path to High-Impact Innovations
Pursuing a high-impact innovation strategy can have terrific payoffs — but it's also extremely risky, and most companies won't do it. Yet a comparatively less risky, proactive approach that strings together "lily pads" of capability-building investments, technical and conceptual advances, and market explorations into "enabling innovations" can bring companies closer to their goal and provide a long-lasting competitive edge.