2A Imagine Strategic Possibilities
🎯 What This Tool Does: Generates 8+ fundamentally different strategic alternatives using AI-powered multi-lens innovation. Break free from incremental thinking and discover game-changing strategies that transform your competitive position through systematic alternative generation.
📊 What It Delivers: Strategic Alternatives Portfolio (3-5 differentiated options), Alternative Generation Documentation, Initial Assessment Framework, Evaluation Criteria for P2B, Strategic Logic Maps.
📋 What You'll Need: P1 assessment results (SWOT), strategic challenge definition, growth aspirations, risk tolerance parameters.
🚀 Getting Started: Share your strategic context and innovation goals, then upload P1 analyses or provide challenge details for breakthrough alternative generation.
Just type "Start" and I'll guide the rest.
“Blue Ocean Strategy: From Theory to Practice” — W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Seminal framework for creating uncontested market space and imagining possibilities beyond current competition.
Link: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5206&context=lkcsb_research
“Strategic Foresight: Learning from the Future” — Richard A. Slaughter
Practical guide on using foresight methods to explore multiple future scenarios and strategic options.
“Serendipity and Strategy in Rapid Innovation” — T. M. A. Fink, Michael Reeves, R. Palma, and R. S. Farr
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.01900.pdf arxiv.org
A freely available academic preprint exploring how innovation emerges from both serendipity and strategic planning.
“Strategic Innovation: New Game Strategies for Competitive Advantage (Chapter Extract at IIBMS)” — Allan Afuah (chapter excerpt, not full book but sizeable and accessible)
Link: https://www.iibms.org/pdf/e-library/Strategic-Innovation-New-Game-Strategies-for-Competitive-Advantage.pdf academia.edu+6perlego.com+6arxiv.org+6iibms.org+2amazon.com+2
This PDF offers a good preview of Afuah’s perspective in a format that’s easy to download.