Leading businesses today focus on more than creating a better product or service. Instead, they innovate to deliver differentiated customer experiences that can lead to a 3 to 7 percent annualized revenue lift.
Our analysis provides a clear correlation between companies’ innovation capabilities and their financial performance by industry peer sets:
Success in the digital future rests on a new approach to innovation. Accenture defines leading innovators as “early innovators and value makers” who can direct a multi-faceted value proposition of superior insights, digital platforms and total solution experiences.
For businesses looking to rewrite their own innovation playbooks, we outline key steps that should be addressed in order to build the right innovation model for the digital age.
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Accenture analyzed the innovation practices and value performance of 351 businesses from the Global 2000 across eight sectors (automotive, industrial equipment, consumer goods, medical devices, enterprise technology, consumer technology, communications technology and software) and nine geographies (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, South Korea).
We found that regardless of category of innovator, industry executives' innovation investment allocation profiles are relatively the same. |
But the results are remarkably different. Early innovators and value makers are yielding outsized returns on their innovation and R&D capabilities. |
Our analysis breaks down innovation DNA into Accenture’s Innovation Driven Growth model. Our combined qualitative and quantitative analysis segments innovation players on what they focus their innovation on and how they execute innovation.
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Moreover, our research insights define not only distinct paths to value maker, but we can also quantify financial results in leading innovation performance by industry.
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Early Innovators and Value Makers are three-times more likely than others to achieve significantly better results in:
Incorporating digital as part of the customer experience
Achieving more successful product introductions
Being faster to market
Today’s world requires agile and open demand-driven value creation that offers customers new dimensions of service and experience to anticipate and meet their fast and frequently changing needs.
And to succeed in this new world, companies have to rethink and evolve their innovation "DNA". Achieving that cuts across operations and collaboration with customers and partners. It requires a new lens on competitors and culture, along with the ability to operate in more open and fluid ecosystems. And it demands the ability to master multiple development lifecycles running simultaneously at different speeds.
Early Innovators and Value Makers are achieving outsized returns from dynamic and distinctive capabilities. Others seeking to increase their return on innovation performance will need to make some significant changes. In Accenture’s view, that means building a concurrent innovation model that rests on three pillars:
BE SOLUTION CENTRIC
While businesses clearly must continue to improve and augment their
products and services, they also need to focus broadly and deeply on the
ecosystem of customer experiences and connections
BUILD AN INSIGHT PLATFORM
Create new revenue through continuously renewing combinations of products,
services and experiences that dynamically change and quickly adapt
DRIVE PIVOTAL LEADERSHIP
Orchestrate, activate and influence enterprise wide change; ensure leaders at the
helm capable of seeing value where others can't, set the right course
and chart progress
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