Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation

Chapter 7. INCORPORATING THE DNA The Role of the Orchestrator

Up to this point we've considered the discovery, incubation, and acceleration building blocks and how they work together as a system. We've talked about portfolios, transitions, pacing, balancing, and all of the issues that ensure or hinder the steady progress of breakthroughs as they advance toward maturity. Now we turn our attention to this reality: you have built a system, it's working, and you think it's running smoothly, but your organization either cannot absorb what you're producing or wants much more than you've got. This mismatch occurs because of the company's ever changing capacity, as we discussed in Chapter Two. One thing's for sure: capacity levels are not constant. Sometimes ...