The Ambidextrous Business for Innovation

Discover the potential of your business through the lens of organizational ambidexterity with the "Ambidextrous Business for Innovation Canvas" template. This template is designed to help teams explore and balance three types of innovation—disruptive, sustaining, and efficiency innovations—within their organization.

Key Features:

• Three Types of Innovation: Identify and categorize your innovation projects using green apple-shaped, red apple-shaped, and diamond-shaped sticky notes for sustaining, efficiency, and disruptive innovations respectively.

• Visual and Interactive Design: Engage your team with a visually structured canvas that aids in brainstorming and strategic planning.

• Warm-Up Activity: Start with a reverse brainstorming exercise as a fun and engaging icebreaker to get creative juices flowing.

Use Cases:

• Strategy Development: Use the canvas to develop a balanced innovation strategy that addresses both current operational efficiency and future market opportunities.

• Team Workshops: Facilitate workshops to encourage collaborative thinking and idea generation across different innovation types.

• Project Planning: Align your innovation projects with your business goals and market trends to ensure a coherent strategic direction.

Benefits:

• Balanced Innovation Portfolio: Ensure your business is not just focused on immediate gains but also on long-term sustainability and market disruption.

• Enhanced Collaboration: Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by involving diverse teams in the planning process.

• Strategic Alignment: Align your innovation efforts with overall business strategy to maximize impact and value.

Instructions:

1. Reverse Brainstorming Warm-Up: Start with a reverse brainstorming session to generate creative ideas by thinking about how to worsen the situation and then reversing these ideas to find potential solutions.

2. Categorize Innovations: Use green apple-shaped sticky notes for sustaining innovations, red apple-shaped sticky notes for efficiency innovations, and diamond-shaped sticky notes for disruptive innovations.

3. Fill Out the Canvas: Begin with the roots (processes) and work your way up to the branches and fruits (outcomes), ensuring all aspects of your business are covered.

Whether you're looking to optimize current processes, adapt to new technologies, or create entirely new markets, this canvas will guide your team in balancing exploration and exploitation to achieve sustained growth and innovation.