Pivot to the Future Quotes

“Technology debt represents a key source of trapped value at the enterprise level.”
― Omar Abbosh, Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World

“While the lean approach has found great favor in both new and old enterprises, companies fail when they devote all their resources to a single product. As market saturation occurs faster all the time, the capacity to generate new products has become more important than the specialized expertise needed to create just one, no matter how enthusiastically customers embrace it. Focusing every resource on one product, even after it’s clear customers have tired of it, leads to trapped value within the enterprise, where talented developers and smart entrepreneurs miss out on the chance to innovate with the next wave of new technologies. If the market has simply moved on and is waiting for the next innovation, investing core resources in the repeated iterations and course corrections the lean methodology demands”
― Omar Abbosh, Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World

“Our research showed that consistent value release requires companies to give away much more value to others, including customers, suppliers, and ecosystem partners, than they keep for themselves, perhaps by as much as a ten to one ratio. So if your approach to innovation investment is limited to opportunities where you can retain all or even most of the value you create, you’re ignoring the biggest opportunities.”
― Omar Abbosh, Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World

“The key finding of our research is that there is a growing gap between what is technologically possible and what companies actually do with that potential.”
― Omar Abbosh, Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World

“To gain needed market and technology insights, the wise pivot relies heavily on experimentation and and early investment.”
― Omar Abbosh, Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World