Growth & Strategy knowledge cluster

Portfolio, Adjacency and Innovation Strategy

Designed to help portfolio leaders, innovation teams, business heads, investors, founders and boards decide which products, categories, capabilities and adjacent opportunities deserve investment, maintenance, redesign or exit.

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This cluster organises 40 practical ways to understand, apply and challenge portfolio, adjacency and innovation strategy.

Designed to help portfolio leaders, innovation teams, business heads, investors, founders and boards decide which products, categories, capabilities and adjacent opportunities deserve investment, maintenance, redesign or exit.

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Core guide

Portfolio Strategy

Portfolio Strategy: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Adjacency Strategy

Adjacency Strategy: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Innovation Portfolio

Innovation Portfolio: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Core guide

Core Adjacent and Transformational Growth

Core Adjacent and Transformational Growth: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Portfolio Coherence

Portfolio Coherence: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Cannibalisation

Cannibalisation: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Portfolio Complexity

Portfolio Complexity: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Core guide

White Space

White Space: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Core guide

Innovation Horizons

Innovation Horizons: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Core guide

Portfolio Governance

Portfolio Governance: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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How-to playbook

How to Map a Business Portfolio

How to Map a Business Portfolio: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic…

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How-to playbook

How to Assess an Adjacent Opportunity

How to Assess an Adjacent Opportunity: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Prioritise Innovation Bets

How to Prioritise Innovation Bets: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Evaluate Portfolio Coherence

How to Evaluate Portfolio Coherence: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Model Cannibalisation

How to Model Cannibalisation: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic…

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How-to playbook

How to Identify White Space

How to Identify White Space: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic…

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How-to playbook

How to Balance Core and Adjacent Growth

How to Balance Core and Adjacent Growth: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Set Portfolio Investment Rules

How to Set Portfolio Investment Rules: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Decide What to Stop Funding

How to Decide What to Stop Funding: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Build a Portfolio Roadmap

How to Build a Portfolio Roadmap: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

The Noisy Portfolio

The Noisy Portfolio: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Adjacency Without Capability Fit

Adjacency Without Capability Fit: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Innovation Theatre

Innovation Theatre: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Cannibalisation Nobody Models

Cannibalisation Nobody Models: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Too Many Small Bets

Too Many Small Bets: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Protecting Legacy Products Too Long

Protecting Legacy Products Too Long: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

White Space Without Customer Evidence

White Space Without Customer Evidence: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Portfolio Growth That Increases Complexity

Portfolio Growth That Increases Complexity: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks…

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Comparison

Portfolio Strategy versus Product Strategy

Portfolio Strategy versus Product Strategy: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks…

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Comparison

Core Growth versus Adjacent Growth

Core Growth versus Adjacent Growth: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Comparison

Innovation Portfolio versus Project Pipeline

Innovation Portfolio versus Project Pipeline: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks…

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Comparison

Cannibalisation versus Substitution

Cannibalisation versus Substitution: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Checklist or practical tool

Portfolio Strategy Matrix

Portfolio Strategy Matrix: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Checklist or practical tool

Adjacency Assessment Scorecard

Adjacency Assessment Scorecard: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic…

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Checklist or practical tool

Innovation Prioritisation Tool

Innovation Prioritisation Tool: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic…

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Checklist or practical tool

Stop-Funding Checklist

Stop-Funding Checklist: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and strategic action.

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Direct-answer guide

How Often Should a Portfolio Be Reviewed?

How Often Should a Portfolio Be Reviewed?: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Direct-answer guide

What Makes an Adjacency Attractive?

What Makes an Adjacency Attractive?: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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Direct-answer guide

How Many Innovation Bets Should a Company Run?

How Many Innovation Bets Should a Company Run?: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution,…

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Direct-answer guide

When Should a Product Be Exited?

When Should a Product Be Exited?: a practical Growth and Strategy guide covering customer evidence, market choices, economics, execution, risks and…

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