What it is
Adaptive Innovation is a method for individuals, teams, and organizations to develop, explain, and embed an innovation process tailored to their unique challenges throughout their innovation journey. It provides a clear sense of direction and progress through meaningful objectives while promoting creativity and communication with a focus on iterative validation. Making detours less frequent, shorter, and less expensive, Adaptive Innovation turns them into valuable learning experiences.
The method supports innovators in identifying the most suitable tools and activities from different domains to achieve their next goal and offers guidance on combining them into learning and communication models that can span entire organizations. Visualizing and describing ongoing innovation efforts, Adaptive Innovation generates transparency and encourages continuous improvement.
This structured approach is laid out in a detailed guide to building effective innovation frameworks accompanied by a set of interactive canvases that enable innovators to collaboratively define their innovation environment. It was developed over many iterations with feedback from outstanding innovators around the globe and is regularly updated and improved as we continue to collect and incorporate even more feedback.
Who we are
Our journey in the realm of innovation has been diverse and enriching. We have held leadership and consulting roles in various types of organizations, including startups, multinational corporations, and nonprofits. This experience has spanned numerous industries and different regions, including the United States, Canada, and Western and Eastern Europe.
Throughout our professional lives, we have come across and applied several popular innovation methods, such as Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile, among others. While we recognize and appreciate the value of these methodologies, we've also grown increasingly frustrated regarding their limitations. These include ambiguity in practical application in complex and large organizations, a lack of a unified approach that convincingly educates and illustrates their combined value, as well as a tendency of innovators to lose sight of the big picture with all of them. This is what motivated us to start this initiative.
Christian Bick is an award-winning explorer of digital products and an experienced practitioner of lean startup, agile and design thinking, recognized for his role in shaping innovation strategies and navigating product discoveries. As Head of Technology at ShareTheMeal (UN World Food Programme), Christian won the SXSW Innovation Award with his team for setting new standards that would reshape the charity app ecosystem. Christian has further been the mind and creator behind Workstreams, taking it from idea to market and establishing one of the most sophisticated and successful productivity apps for Slack and MS Teams. Acting as a product and technology strategist in numerous consulting engagements, Christian has supported multiple teams to unleash their full creative potential across industries as diverse as education, marketing, finance, research, and project management.
Mitt Korot is a seasoned orchestrator of cross-functional teams dedicated to the pursuit of digital product excellence taking companies from product idea to revenue. Throughout his career in business strategy and product innovation, Mitt has focused on helping companies envision the unthinkable, strategize the path, and build commercially viable products to get there. His diverse career in leadership roles includes driving complex digital product programs at Formula.Monks, where he managed cross-functional teams across multiple Client engagements being responsible for the overall delivery success. At Accenture Canada and Denmark, Mitt led project teams focused on large-scale technology-enabled transformations. As a Global Product Manager at one of the world’s leading pharma companies Novo Nordisk, Mitt helped launch breakthrough therapies for patients in need.
