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Leapfrogging – Creating a Breakthrough Culture

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Today’s Focus

Where do “business breakthroughs” come from?

What are the strategies and leadership competencies needed for breakthrough innovation and change?

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Famous Breakthroughs

www.leapfrogging.com Source: The Wall Street Journal, 2012

Casualties of Disruptive Innovation

$58 Million market cap (in bankruptcy)

$10 Billion market cap (in dozens of new businesses)

Push boundaries to create new opportunities

Non-Adjacent Markets

Adjacent Markets Your Industry

& Markets

DuPont Legal

Breakthrough innovation meat grinder

InNOvation

Luck events!

Leading breakthroughs

So how do you do it?

Start with yourself, not the market

L E A P S Listen

Holistic Thinking Study

Four apartment listings

48 data points

One best, one worst, two in between

Three groups

Map Current Assumptions

Law suits should be fought

Winning is the goal

Legal fees are time-based

Expand Boundaries

Law suits are learning

opportunities

Resolving quickly is the goal

Fees based on incentives

Assumption Mapping & Boundary Pushing

Go outside to stretch the inside

L E A P S Explore

No cross- cultural thinking

Thinking of cross-cultural experiences

Source: INSEAD & Northwestern

Huggies MomInspired

Tilty Cup

Outside-In Innovation Framework

Internal Intrigue

What do mom’s need to make their lives easier or more fulfilling?

What is a “mompreneur”?

What happens if we give mompreneurs money to grow

their businesses?

Is there an opportunity to radically transform the corporate R&D and

innovation process?

External Stretch

Go talk to “mom experts”

Research the web, talk to mompreneurs

Shop around idea for a low cost, low risk “grant” pilot program

Grow a model of customer co-creation one step and one country

at a time

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Take small simple steps, again and again and again

L E A P S Act

Entrepreneurial Thinking Style Study

Serial Entrepreneurs: Take small steps

Professional Managers: Predict the future

37 Source: University of Virginia

Five Small Steps Model

What resources do we have?

What is our “prototype”?

Who can we share it with?

What are our surprises?

What needs to change?

Take the surprise out

of failure

L E A P S Persist

Fear and Decision-Making Study

Pessimism

Increased

Risk-Aversion Poor Choices Fear

Source: Harvard University

Uncertainty Lack of control

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Make the journey a part of the (surprising) destination

L E A P S Seize

Opening up to Surprise is

about Humility

Accurately Assess

Ourselves

Acknowledge Imperfections

Listen to Others

Keep Accomplishments

in Perspective

Appreciate Value of All

People & Things

1. A Leapfrogging Mindset

2. Boundary Pushing

3. Data- Intuition Integration

4. Adaptive Planning

5. Savoring Surprise

LEAPS Strategies

Leapfrogging Leadership Competencies

Competencies

Additional Resources

How To Turn A Nasty Surprise Into The Next Disruptive Idea

Leading Disruptive Innovation

Leadership Competencies for Disruptive Innovation

Soren Kaplan, Ph.D. skaplan@leapfrogging.com 925.405.5003 @sorenkaplan

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