The problem
It looks like a toy. It’s cheaper, simpler, worse on every metric your best customers care about. That’s not a reason to ignore it — it’s exactly how the thing that disrupts you begins.
Incumbents don’t miss disruption because they’re stupid; they miss it because their own best customers and their own P&L tell them to. Meanwhile the project that should have died at gate two is somehow in year three, and the moonshot is being funded like operations instead of like an option.
Innovation has patterns — of who gets disrupted, of how ideas spread, of how to fund uncertainty. Knowing them is the difference between betting and gambling.
What this book gives you
How to Master Innovation Frameworks gives you the 14 models that separate real innovation from expensive noise — each a full chapter with the model or map behind it.
- Disruptive vs Sustaining
- Design Thinking
- Lean Startup
- Minimum Viable Product
- The Innovation Funnel
- Stage-Gate
- Diffusion of Innovation
- The Ambidextrous Organisation
… 14 in all, from disruption theory to open innovation.
See it move
Run your pipeline through the innovation funnel and stage-gate: a hundred ideas in, and the gates are meant to kill the wrong ninety-eight. Score your live projects honestly against the gate criteria and watch which “strategic” pet project fails the test it should have failed two years ago. The framework gives you permission — and evidence — to stop it.
Buying more than one category? All 25 books and every one of the 467 models are £29.99 in the Business Framework Omnibus — less than the price of a third book. Prefer to try first? The free Framework Starter Pack gives you five complete chapters and their live Excel models.
14 frameworks. One category. The complete learning path. Every model in Innovation Frameworks — explained, applied, and ready to use.
How to Master Innovation Frameworks walks you through the complete arc: 14 models, in the order you'd actually learn them, each with a full practitioner chapter and a live Excel companion.
- 14 models across Innovation Frameworks, the complete learning path
- Full practitioner chapters plus a live Excel companion for every model
- Written from 30+ years in investment banking, M&A and private equity
Innovation Frameworks at a Glance
