Exponential Transformation

Evolve Your Organization (and Change the World) With a 10-Week ExO Sprint

Ismail, Salim / Palao, Francisco / Lapierre, Michelle

1. Auflage Juli 2019
384 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-119-61139-4

John Wiley & Sons

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A practical handbook for using Exponential Organization to transform your organization--and disrupt your industry--in 10 weeks

Today's top business challenge is adapting to accelerating technological and global change. In his bestselling book Exponential Organizations, author Salim Ismail described a new type of organization that thrives amidst industry disruption. Since then, he has helped organizations disrupt their own industries--by applying Exponential Organization (ExO) principles. From this work emerged the 10-week transformation process explained in this book, called the ExO Sprint.

Exponential Transformation is the detailed implementation handbook for becoming an Exponential Organization. The book enables organizations to speed up their transformation and overcome the obstacles to success.

* Lead a 10-week ExO Sprint

* Evolve in order to navigate industry disruption

* Become an Exponential Organization

* Block the immune-system response of organizations during transformation

Companies such as Visa, Procter & Gamble, HP, and Black & Decker have already benefited from ExO process. Exponential Transformation is a must-have resource for participants of any ExO Sprint, as well as those seeking to apply Exponential principles in their organizations.

Foreword 10

Collaborators 12

Introduction 15

Introduction 16

The Fourth Industrial Revolution 18

Shift to Abundance 20

What Is an Exponential Organization? 22

Challenges of Transformation 24

The ExO Sprint 26

Who Should Read This Book? 28

How to Use This Book 30

ExO Model 33

ExO Model 34

Massive Transformative Purpose 36

Scale 48

Staff On Demand 50

Community & Crowd 52

Algorithms 54

Leveraged Assets 56

Engagement 58

Ideas 60

Interfaces 62

Dashboards 64

Experimentation 66

Autonomy 68

Social Technologies 70

ExO Canvas 72

ExO Sprint 79

ExO Sprint 80 Challenges to Transformation 82

ExO Sprint Approach 86

ExO Sprint Structure 90

ExO Initiatives (Core vs. Edge) 92

ExO Sprint Roles 96

Setting Up Your ExO Sprint Teams 98

IT Tools Supporting the ExO Sprint 100

Preparation Phase 102

Plan 104

Awake 118

Align 124

Execution Phase 138

Execution Edge Stream 143

Execution Core Stream 245

Follow-Up Phase 350

Your Exo Sprint Outcome 353

ExO Sprint Case Studies 359

Annexes 371

ExO Workshop 372

Tips for ExO Sprint Roles 376

Recommended Reading 382

Salim Ismail spent the last seven years building Singularity University as its founding executive director and current global ambassador. He is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and travels extensively lecturing on how organizations can leverage ongoing technology disruptions to grow 10x faster than their peers. Singularity University has empowered people from more than 85 countries to apply disruptive technologies - biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience - to more than 100 startups and countless patents and ideas. Prior to Singularity, Salim was a vice president at Yahoo, where he built and ran Brickhouse, the company's internal incubator. His last company, Ångströ, a news aggregation startup, was sold to Google in 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies.

Francisco Palao is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator with deep experience helping corporations transform. After receiving his PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Francisco launched several disruptive startups the led him to understand the importance of applying the right innovation methodologies together with cutting-edge technologies. He designed the ExO Sprint methodology and has been dedicated to its continual improvement and accessibility.

Michelle Lapierre has made a career of supporting business leadership and senior management in responding to change. As a consultant and business advisor, she has facilitated full-scale transformation in the public and private sectors through leadership, coaching, and implementation support. Her work today empowers organizations to decode industry disruption using the ExO Sprint model.