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Precedent Driven Innovation framework at work

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Precedent Driven Innovation framework at work

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Innovation has been one of the most sought-after but elusive notions in history. We studied the most prominent innovators and saw a pattern. First, they looked at a problem in a new way. Then they found inspiration in unusual places and recombined ideas to create new solutions

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Hedy Lamarr

Albert Einstein

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Innovation has been one of the most sought-after but elusive notions in history. We studied the most prominent innovators and saw a pattern. First, they looked at a problem in a new way. Then they found inspiration in unusual places and recombined ideas to create new solutions

Hedy Lamarr

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Albert Einstein

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In FRAME, we discover your primary challenges and unlock a path to creative thinking

PDI Step #1 Outcome:
Strategic Innovation Challenge

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution”

Albert
Einstein

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  • Customers

  • Staff

  • Executives

  • Partners

  • Opinion Leaders

01

PERSPECTIVES​

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  • Market(S)

  • Business

  • Technology

  • Regulation

  • Etc.

02

FACTS

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  • Timeframe

  • Investment

  • Partners

  • Etc.

03

PARAMETERS

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  • Degree Of Difficulty

  • Innovation Required

  • Size Of Challenge

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PRIORITIZATION​

First Fundamental Reality of Innovation:

Innovation begins with framing your critical challenge in new ways

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First Fundamental Reality of Innovation:

Innovation begins with framing your critical challenge in new ways

In FRAME, we discover your primary challenges and unlock a path to creative thinking

PDI Step #1 Outcome:
Strategic Innovation Challenge

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution”

Albert
Einstein

  • Customers

  • Staff

  • Executives

  • Partners

  • Opinion Leaders

01

PERSPECTIVES​

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  • Market(S)

  • Business

  • Technology

  • Regulation

  • Etc.

02

FACTS

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  • Degree Of Difficulty

  • Innovation Required

  • Size Of Challenge

04

PRIORITIZATION​

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  • Timeframe

  • Investment

  • Partners

  • Etc.

03

PARAMETERS

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   The Recombinators approach is the 

Regional Head of Strategy and Innovation,

Leading consumer beverage organization

most structured, proven, and effective

approach to solving tough challenges

innovation."

way I think about strategy and

that we have ever seen. It changed the

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       The Recombinators approach is 

 the most structured, proven, and 

 effective approach to solving tough 

 strategy and innovation."

 changed the way I think about 

 challenges that we have ever seen. It 

Regional Head of Strategy and Innovation,

Leading consumer beverage organization

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Second Fundamental Reality of Innovation:

Innovation is the result of “creative re-combination,” fueled by inspirations from unexpected places

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In CREATE, we find strategic analogs to critical challenges to stimulate unconstrained inspiration for innovative solutions

PDI Step #2 Outcome:

Breakthrough Ideas

Creativity is just connecting things.”

Steve Jobs

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What elements must be solved in order to crack the innovation?​​

01

DECONSTRUCT​

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How do we generalize each element of the challenge to enable unconstrained thinking​​?

02

DISASSOCIATE

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Has anyone, anywhere, anytime, ever solved the piece of the puzzle?​​

03

SEARCH & FILTER

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Which combination of specific precedents would crack the challenge?​​

04

RECOMBINE

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Second Fundamental Reality of Innovation: Innovation is the result of “creative re-combination,” fueled by inspirations from unexpected places

In CREATE, we find strategic analogs to critical challenges to stimulate unconstrained inspiration for innovative solutions

PDI Step #2 Outcome:

Breakthrough Ideas

Creativity is just connecting things.”

Steve Jobs

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How do we generalize each element of the challenge to enable unconstrained thinking?​​

02

DISASSOCIATE

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Has anyone, anywhere, anytime, ever solved the piece of the puzzle?​​

03

SEARCH & FILTER

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Which combination of specific precedents would crack the challenge?​​

04

RECOMBINE

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What elements must be solved in order to crack the innovation?​​

01

DECONSTRUCT​

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   This team brings a unique ability to find 

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Global consumer healthcare organization

 question... and the process was 

innovative solutions to our business

beyond the obvious and get to

uncover... Their research helped us get

meaningful answers that aren't easy to

actually fun!"

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      This team brings a unique ability to

VP Of Marketing,

Global consumer healthcare organization

 to our business question...and

 and get to innovative solutions 

 helped us get beyond the obvious 

 easy to uncover... Their research

 find meaningful answers that aren't 

 the process was actually

 fun!"

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Third Fundamental Reality of Innovation:

Innovation is the result of “creative re-combination,” fueled by inspirations from unexpected places

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In PRIME, we ground creative ideas to develop an action plan and drive immediate results in the market

PDI Step #3 Outcome:

Innovation Strategy & Conditions to Succeed

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

Guy Kawasaki

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  • Size the growth opportunity

  • Identify market-based parameters & constraints

01

MARKET

SENSING​

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  • Align org capabilities with needs

  • Portfolio match

  • Gap analysis

02

CAPABILITY

FIT

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  • Detailed Big Idea profile

  • Multi-year roadmap

  • Critical success factors

03

IDEA DEVELOPMENT

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  • Pilot Program build

  • Go-to-market execution

  • KPI creation & monitoring

04

PILOT,  LAUNCH,

LEARN

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Third Fundamental Reality of Innovation:

Innovation is the result of “creative                              re-combination,” fueled by inspirations

from unexpected places

In PRIME, we ground creative ideas to develop an action plan and drive immediate results in the market

PDI Step #3 Outcome:

Innovation Strategy & Conditions to Succeed

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

Guy Kawasaki

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  • Size the growth opportunity

  • Identify market-based parameters & constraints

01

MARKET SENSING​

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  • Align org capabilities with needs

  • Portfolio match

  • Gap analysis

02

CAPABILITY FIT

03

IDEA DEVELOPMENT

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  • Detailed Big Idea profile

  • Multi-year roadmap

  • Critical success factors

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  • Pilot Program build

  • Go-to-market execution

  • KPI creation & monitoring

04

PILOT,  LAUNCH, LEARN

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    Excellent customer service, gets “the 

Executive Director of Commercial Operations, 

Leading healthcare organization

big picture”, a strategic partner and is a

team of great creative minds.”

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      Excellent customer service, gets 

Executive Director of Commercial Operations, 

Leading healthcare organization

 "the big picture”, a strategic partner 

 and is a team of great 

 creative minds.”

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    Excellent customer service, gets “the big picture”, a strategic partner and is a team of great creative minds”

Executive Director of Commercial Operations,  

Leading healthcare organization

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   The Recombinators approach is the most structured, proven, and effective approach to solving tough challenges that we have ever seen. It changed the way I think about strategy and innovation."

Regional Head of Strategy and Innovation,

Leading consumer beverage organization

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   The Recombinators approach is the most structured, proven, and effective approach to solving tough challenges that we have ever seen. It changed the way I think about strategy and innovation."

Regional Head of Strategy and Innovation,

Leading consumer beverage organization

Recombinators enhances its Ways to Win and Skills to Win practices by leveraging JustAskLUCY – the world's largest innovation precedent database

LUCY provides you with thousands of examples of companies, people, and entities that have solved pieces of a specific challenge. We use gen AI tools to enhance this process with more efficient search and more creative inspiration.

Innovation Precedent Database

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LUCY provides you with thousands of examples of companies, people, and entities that have solved pieces of a specific challenge. We use gen AI tools to enhance this process with more efficient search and more creative inspiration.

Recombinators enhances its Ways to Win and Skills to Win practices by leveraging JustAskLUCY – the world's largest innovation precedent database

Our AI Intergration Framework

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We have been at the forefront of using generative AI for our clients. SOTA tools speed up certain primary and secondary research activities. However, modern-day LLMs’ capabilities lag behind teams of innovators armed with PDI in terms of understanding challenge context and nuance, commonsense reasoning, using emotional intelligence, solution creativity and originality, dealing with ambiguity, ethical and moral judgment, learning from limited data, and several other areas.​

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Our AI Intergration Framework

Recombinators’ Managing Partner, Nadim Yacteen, delivers talks on How Innovation Happens to Senior Executives and their teams

Public Speaking Opportunities

Recombinators’ Managing Partner, Nadim  Yacteen, delivers talks on How Innovation Happens to Senior Executives and their teams

Public Speaking Opportunities

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