Welcome to the world, Sparchub!

Rita McGrath

Thought Sparks

WELCOME TO THE WORLD,

SPARCHUB! LET’S GET STARTED

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Rita McGrath

After 8 years since founding Valize, 4 changes of software approaches, more than 50 iterations of my Columbia Executive Education program “Leading Strategic Growth and Change” and 5 books, the software designed to make managing the innovation process easier and more transparent is ready to make its debut.

Welcome to the world, SparcHub!

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THERE WAS NEVER AN APP FOR THAT! Discovery driven planning, the article that introduced the idea that has later found its way into many innovation methodologies, including Lean Startup, was published in 1995. The idea was further explored in my year 2000 book “The Entrepreneurial Mindset” (hint: do not publish a book with entrepreneurship in the title after one of the greatest entrepreneurial disasters of all time, the dot.com crash). “ Page | 03.

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Over the years, I’ve been asked, many times,

BUT…

whether it would be possible to create a tool to make sure the organization was implementing the Discovery Driven Growth system properly. I formalized this effort in 2016, with the founding of Valize.

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SO, WHAT DOES IT DO? With discovery driven plans, Conventional plans are

on the other hand, the whole

built as though you had a

idea is to plan to reduce

platform of experience to

uncertainty, so you drive your

work with. So you’ll see 18-

plans through key

month rollout plans with

checkpoints, which are

launch dates and major

learning events. These

milestones, all spelled out

principles guide what is in the

in advance. This is pretty

software.

reliable way to end up in my flops file.

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AND THERE’S MORE!

To watch a full demo of the SparcHub system, Welcome to the world, SparcHub!

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please visit our web site. I’m super excited to finally be able to share it with you!

Rita McGrath

WANT TO SPARK SOME THINKING IN YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION? Book Now

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Rita McGrath

THANK YOU!

https://thoughtsparks.substack.com/

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