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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



vs

$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

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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

Recommended Tool: Stanford Design School “Bootcamp Bootleg”


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. [email protected] 925.405.5003 @sorenkaplan


Questions & Discussion

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