Title: A unified methodology for innovation strategy formulation: product and resource perspectives on the firm combined

Authors: Andreas Larsson, Yoshio Sugasawa

Addresses: Centre for Management of Innovation and Technology in Process Industry, Division of Industrial Organization, Lulea University of Technology, 971 87 Lulea, Sweden. ' Nihon University Graduate School of Business, 4–8–24 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102–8275, Japan

Abstract: In strategy research, resources and products can be considered two sides of the same coin. Thus, competitors can be identified not just by similarities among their products, but by similarities among their resources and capabilities as well. This conceptual paper introduces a unified version of the Booz Allen Hamilton methodology for innovation strategy formulation. It combines the product perspective with the resource perspective, building upon the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats framework and the resource–product matrix. It offers a straightforward, easy-to-apply methodology for innovation strategy formulation that integrates internal strengths and weaknesses with environmental opportunities and threats.

Keywords: innovation strategy; process management; strategic planning; resource-based view; RBV; industrial organisation; strategy formulation process; management tools; process management; benchmarking; Booz Allen Hamilton methodology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPMB.2007.015141

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, 2007 Vol.2 No.2, pp.118 - 137

Published online: 18 Sep 2007 *

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