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Making Ideas Real

The Innovator's Favourite Weapon

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If you only had 30 seconds I'd tell you:

‘Making Ideas Real’ is a state of mind that drives us to translate an idea into a form that we can react to immediately and emotionally.

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‘Making Ideas Real’ delivers much better innovation because it forces us to stop talking and start doing.

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‘Making Ideas Real’ is the practical way to ‘tolerate risk’.

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‘Making Ideas Real’ is suitable for all organisations in all markets.

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You can make things real at every stage of the innovation process; early stage conversations, simulations, prototypes, pilots and even beyond launch.

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At the heart of ‘making it real’ is an iterative approach – a programme of experiments that test and build on each other.

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There are four pillars to making things real: a good ...

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