Identify your innovation gaps
Before you can “win” you need to understand your gaps in both capacity for innovation and your institutional capability to innovate.
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Winning: How to go beyond table stakes and thrive
Subscribe to Updates The table stakes are part of the winning playbook – but not all of it. Figuring out the rest demands innovation – identifying, experimenting and learning whether possible approaches work. This section explores how to truly innovate.Big Picture Time to go beyond table stakes. Time to WIN.
The Table Stakes outlined here are about what news enterprises need to do to “get in the game.” But you don’t just want to play. You want to win. Learn what it takes to differentiate your news organization from others in ways that help you move from “survive” to “thrive.”
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Plan Understand the gap: What's keeping you from winning?
What winning looks like
Once you’ve mastered the table stakes, there are things you can do to win. What does a winning local news enterprise look like?
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Do Actions to close the gap
Ask the right tech questions, connect with community and more advice from UNC Table Stakes coaches
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Learn how these Table Stakes coaches are advising their teams and what tools they are using to move them toward progress.
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Poynter Table Stakes coaches share their advice for local newsrooms
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Learn how these Table Stakes coaches are advising their teams and what tools they are using to move them toward progress.
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Put a team in charge of enterprise wide innovation
You must have a team who manages, oversees and tracks progress toward fundamental innovation.
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Partner to expand your capacity and capabilities at lower and more flexible cost
You must figure out how to collaborate – among yourselves and with others.
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Embrace fast following
You must monitor innovations that emerge with an eye on quickly ‘following’ – using innovation disciplines to test whether and how what works elsewhere will or might work in your market.
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Establish a budget for fundamental innovation – and use criteria to choose among competing ideas
You MUST establish a pool of money and explicitly dedicate resources to experimenting with fundamentally new and different ways of adding value to your markets and local communities
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Distinguish continuous improvement from fundamental innovation
All news enterprises must continuously get better at what they do. But you also must be able to truly innovate.
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