Model: Innovation & Design

Focuses on creative processes, prototyping, and scaling ideas into viable products or services.


  • Zero to One

    Zero to One

    Aim for vertical progress—create something truly new (0 → 1), not…

  • The Idea Maze

    The Idea Maze

    Before building, map the space: the key forks, dead ends and…

  • Network Effects

    Network Effects

    A product becomes more valuable as more participants join and interact.…

  • Minimum Viable Product

    Minimum Viable Product

    Build the smallest thing that tests the riskiest assumption with real…

  • Lindy Effect

    Lindy Effect

    For non-perishable things (ideas, books, protocols), the older it is, the…

  • Complex Adaptive Systems

    Complex Adaptive Systems

    Many interacting agents following simple rules create emergent behaviour.

  • Disruptive Innovation

    Disruptive Innovation

    Entrants start with cheaper, simpler offers for over-served or non-consumers, then…

  • First Principles Thinking

    First Principles Thinking

    Reduce a problem to its fundamental truths, then reason up from…

  • Combinations vs Permutations

    Combinations vs Permutations

    Order matters → permutations. Order doesn’t → combinations. Adjust for with/without…

  • Adaptation

    Adaptation

    Improve fit to a changing environment by shortening feedback loops, trying…