The Art of Opportunity: How to Build Growth and Ventures Through Strategic Innovation and Visual Thinking - Softcover

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Marc Sniukas (Luxembourg; www.doujak.eu, www.businessmodelgallery.com, www.sniukas.com) is a partner at Doujak Corporate Development, a global consulting company that partners with CEOs, executive teams and owners of Fortune 500s and Hidden Champions to resolve the global strategic and organizational challenges they face; and co-founder of Business Model Gallery, the world's largest business model database. Marc partners with leadership teams and their organizations to discover opportunities for new growth and develop breakthrough strategies and innovative business models to transform their organizations. He has worked with major corporations across a wide range of industries in Europe, the US, Canada, Latin America, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the UAE, Turkey, China and South Africa.
Besides his corporate work, Marc is currently an adjunct professor at CEDIM, where he teaches Innovation and Business Model Innovation within the Master of Business Innovation program, and is researching business model innovation as part of Manchester Business School’s DBA program. He is on the faculty at Thnk School for Creative Leadership with campuses in Amsterdam, Vancouver and Lisbon, and teaches business model innovation to about 100 international students per year.

Parker Lee (Portland, OR; www.xplane.com) currently serves as president and EVP of business development at XPLANE, a business design consultancy firm based in Portland, OR and Amsterdam that helps large organizations clarify, communicate, and achieve their goals.
Lee leads workshops, facilitates events, and provides consulting services on strategic business design to dozens of global clients, including Cisco, Microsoft, BP, Shell, Intel, Nike, Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG), Autodesk, PayPal, Bank of America, The Economist, UNICEF, The World Bank, Genentech, AT&T, and Michelin. He has presented at numerous industry events, most recently the Association of Change Management Professionals annual conferences, and the Apple CEO Conference on The Future of Media.
Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in organization development and long range planning from the University of California, Davis. He is currently chairman of Portland’s Business for Culture and the Arts.

Matt Morasky (Portland, OR; www.xplane.com) is a lead consultant at XPLANE, and an award-winning creative director, visual thinker, and educator. A fifteen-year veteran of the design and communications world, Morasky is an active advocate of Visual Thinking who combines his design thinking background with facilitation and visual problem solving practices to bring clarity to complex problems for clients including: American Express, British Telecom, Coca-Cola, Cox Enterprises, Elsevier, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Microsoft, The North Face, Proctor & Gamble, Red Bull, SwissCom, Vans, and Wrangler/Lee.
Morasky is currently based in XPLANE's Portland studio. Prior to that, he helped open XPLANE’s Amsterdam office, where he lead creative efforts―building and collaborating with teams of consultants, project managers and design professionals―to help European clients navigate sticky changes. Morasky also established the Amsterdam Visual Thinking School (VTS), planning, promoting and delivering monthly VTS workshops for the creative and business communities. Most recently Matt developed and launched XPLANE's Designer Training Program, a multi-week, open-source course that introduces Visual Thinking (and design thinking) methodologies to senior level designers and problem-solvers.
A natural teacher, Morasky has taught and regularly guest lectures in many Northwest design schools. He has conducted workshops on Visual Thinking throughout Europe and the United States as well as spoken on the topic for audiences at the Frontiers of Interaction conference, Rome; University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and the Oregon Market Research Association.

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"The Art of Opportunity will help trigger strategic renewal inside your organization. Creative, inspiring, fresh, and empirically grounded, this playbook to growth is bound to be an executive reference for many years to come."
—Deryck J van Rensburg, President, Coca-Cola Global Ventures

DISCOVER AND CREATE NEW GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH STRATEGIC INNOVATION

All successful companies must eventually answer the same question: How do you establish new growth strategies and business opportunities from within your organization? The Art of Opportunity looks closely at how successful companies have addressed growth challenges to envision and frame a real-world approach to strategic innovation that reduces risk, delivers fast results, and has a higher likelihood of success. The concepts outlined in this book provide organizations with a detailed blueprint for how to grow, innovate, and transform. The Art of Opportunity shows you:

• New concepts for thinking about growth and strategic innovation
• Business design thinking principles to help you shift your mind-set and approach
• Previously unpublished case studies with detailed examples of successful growth strategies that few have seen before
• A profound, yet practical, framework for strategic innovation, based on rigorous academic research and practical experience
• Visualizations, templates, tools, and methodologies for you to quickly apply to your business

The Art of Opportunity will help you break through the boundaries that currently define your business and empower you to leverage strategic innovation to create new growth opportunities.

"I love this book. Whether you're pushing an idea inside a large corporation, or creating your next big deal, this book gives you the framework, the tools, and the right questions—not just to get you started, but to keep you going."
—Richard Black, Chief Data Architect, Deutsche Bank; Former Chief Technology Officer, Bank of England

"Visually beautiful, The Art of Opportunity is a fresh take on design thinking that offers practical tools for strategic innovation."
—Mark Polson, Vice President, Creativity and Strategic Capability Building, Estée Lauder Companies

"The Art of Opportunity is all about discovering new growth opportunities for your company and crafting a collaborative strategy that will get you there. Not only is the content powerful, the design is stimulating for the eyes, as well as the mind. Read this book and start innovating!"
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager^® and Collaboration Begins with You