Welcome to the world, Sparchub!

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Rita

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.

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 The idea was further explored in my year 2000 book “The Entrepreneurial Mindset” (hint: do not publish a book with entrepreneurship in the title after one of the greatest entrepreneurial disasters of all time, the dot.com crash). “

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BUT…

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

Conventional plans are built as though you had a platform of experience to work with. So you’ll see 18month rollout plans with launch dates and major milestones, all spelled out in advance. This is pretty reliable way to end up in my flops file.

With discovery driven plans, on the other hand, the whole idea is to plan to reduce uncertainty, so you drive your plans through key checkpoints, which are learning events. These principles guide what is in the software.

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AND THERE’S MORE!

Welcome to the world,

To watch a full demo of the SparcHub system, please visit our web site. I’m super excited to finally be able to share it with you! SparcHub!

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