Top 10 Challenges You Can Solve in Transformation Sprints

"It's very difficult to fix things we cannot see or that fall outside of our awareness".

Back in the days, Copernicus and Galileo helped people to see that our world is not flat, not is it the centre of the universe, as was previously believed for centuries. As we speak, the James Webb telescope is revealings parts of the universe, that have remained hidden from the capabilities of the Hubble telescope the past 30 years. This is the modern day Copernicus and Galileo.

When we confidently claim a status of "expert", and that a transformation Sprint cannot teach us something new about what today may become tomorrow, think about the abundance of what we don't know, and also how little of "what has been known so far in history", that may no longer hold true in the future.

Is VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, an apt description of the current state of the world? Would you agree the pace of change in the world is accelerating? Leaders may have stopped questioning this when Covid-10 hit their business in the past couple of years. But what else is changing the world as we know it, including Your business domain? Is it time to prepare for more change in the years to come?

The opposite of Volatility is Stability -Would you say your business environment is stable?

The opposite of Uncertainty is Certainty -Would you say that you have a good grasp on what the future holds?

The opposite of Complexity is Simplicity -Would you say organisational life is getting simpler?

The opposite of Ambiguity is Predictability -Would you say markets, customers, competitors, and governments are acting in predictable ways?

An Awakening Keynote -optionally followed by a transformative experience for the workshop participants, is an eye-opener for senior leaderships as well as for everyone else attending.

Make sure to invite your ecosystem, business partners and others who need a wake-up call too!

Exponential leaders understand that technology is a force that transforms scarcity to abundance. Technology is creating a world of abundance in almost every major arena, including (but certainly not limited to) energy, knowledge, transportation, computation,  education, and healthcare. Once these industries transform from scarcity to abundance, their products and services become cheap—or free—and their quality often goes through the roof. Exponential leaders understand that we’re getting closer and closer to an abundant future. The world is becoming better at an extraordinary rate on almost every possible measure. These leaders also know that scarcity-minded, closed business models will ultimately fail, while open platforms will ultimately win.

But does your organization also understand HOW Exponential technologies work? How to leverage them best for your particular use? What are the most suitable and transformative technologies you cannot afford NOT to get into your execution engine, or into your innovation lab at least?

Many corporations and governments are too slow at getting their hands dirty and learning from their own experiments. So they try to acquire tech startups to play catch-up. But this strategy often fails, unless you are a tech giant that is constantly vacuum clearning the market for talent and new tech services.

There is no way around it. Every organization that accepts the new realities where technology transform domain after domain, must grow their technology muscle and talent pool, to learn how technology will be a force of growth, rather than a disruption to your business.

Let us design your technology discovery phase and bring you through a Sprint, that shows you exactly also where and how your organization should prioritise your time, money and Human Resources. We can bring in experienced tech entrepreneurs and consultants to show you the fast(test) lane to running your own experiments with tech, or doing it in partnerships.

• Michael Alvarez from Boston Scientific joined our call. "Knowing they had to go outside of their own business to get the help they needed on the tough ride: Two key points: Discipline necessary and the difficulty of the culture. Boston brought open-mindedness to actually implement change. The incremental innovation is easy but the 10x is really hard."
• Get started is the most important step to take, says Tony Saldana

  “I have not budget, I have no time..:” No, you have too much money and time. The disruptors often does not have money and time so they are not waiting for someone to give them a mandate.

  You have to assume the mandate, take charge, figure out how to do this

  “We actually do not want P&G money, we will use our ecosystem to do the work for us, we have cool ideas for a startup and they can have P&G as a customer, come and work on this idea with us”.

• Implementation at scale (Tony):

• Michael: Have buy-in from the top for funding, have someone of influence engaged on a day-to-day basis, skin-in-the-game. Otherwise it is hard to maintain momentum in the post-sprint change process.

• Start with business opportunities, not with technology. Do not start with the tech and then search for a problem to solve. Danger of not showing results! Making change happen outside of the lab will gain you credibility with your business partners. One success lead to the next one but the first one is critical.

• Yahoo Brickhouse was put in the media so it was no longer allowed to fail given all the press and then the immune system have ammunition to go after you.

• Walmart in 1990 had a geo stationary satellite control center in their datacenter. Someone had the vision to do launch geo stationary satellites for credit card transactions and real time inventory that gave Walmart 15% edge in margin in a 1-2% margin market and the rest of the industry took 1,5 decade to catch up.