About This Episode

0:00 Intro, Context-setting  & Advance Poll Question – “What are the biggest gaps of innovation in your company?“

 7;20  What people are interested in innovation-wise? – #1 Innovation Strategy, #2 Business Models, #3 Innovation Best Practices & #4 Innovation Metrics/Measurements

 8:45 – Poll Results – top needs for innovation improvement #1 Improving and prototyping the top innovation projects and #2 Building and aligning on marketplace implementation

 9:30  Our Core Argument – “The Future Beyond Innovation” – 2020 as an interesting time period, marketplace speed, blindspots that need to be placated and horrible performance of the innovation industry

 12:15 – Introduction of special guest panelist/concierge – Dave Marvit, Innovation Consultant – Open innovation Gateway, powered by Fujitsu and the interest in going beyond just idea generation, learning and not being sucked into technology details

 17:10- What’s exciting about 2020  – landmarks can be artificial but it is 2020 – need for clarity, startup vs. corporate innovation and the outweighted importance of garage entrepreneurs and the gaps created for bigger companies, standing on the shoulders of giants (SWOT analysis, Five Forces, Benchmarking, Design Thinking) and now Futureproofing

 20:20 Research that Inspired Us To Do This  –  corporate innovation is the weaker sister of corporate functions, the much bigger need to look up, look around & look forward, the best ideas not getting the best traction, missing ideas inside big, established companies, what should we optimize ideas for ( our decide and commit phases)

 25:00 Statistics and Corporate Innovation Playbook Research – empathy for the 80% of the world that is intimidated by the prospect of change, the enhanced improtance of pace and speed impacting us from the outside world, and biggest internal barriers – insufficent talent, time, resources and stretch and lack of recognition of strategic misalignment

 27:35  Where Innovation Has Fallen Short – the need to revolutionize R&D, speed, the global nature and the need for bedfellows (partners) has changed the game, histiorically good at incremental stuff, horrible at inventing or pivoting to new business models and lack of resilience in making change organization-wide

31:55  Compoents of Futureproofing – where does innovation stop and where does execution begin, duality – we need all kinds of innovation but we can’t call everything innovation, Futureproofing = a broadened view of what innovation should be (30 constituent peices) and a four simple step approach, the challenge of anchoring bias, jumping on early signs of change now – a new point of departure, the way to be true to the future is to embrace it

39:15 Is Futureproofing ; Next just Innovation du Jour and Our Framework/Tools – the need for outward models, “See, Learn, Decide, Commit” overarching process and our canvas of tools and sustainable remedies, the need to get beyond your own frameworks and look broadly, “rapid learning” has been underpresented as an explicit practice, culture can kill great strategy, turning tacit knowledge into something very explicit

47:25 The Structure of Futureproofing Next  book chapters – SEE – Inside Now/Integrated Forces and new success critera  – desirability, feasibility, viability, suitability and futurability,  Learn – Imagine Next and the opportunity aperture

52:30 The Next Phase of Futureproofing : Next  –  how do you get confidence/eliminate fear – duress/crisis moment, reacting – competitors have done something, proactiveness- reactive cry for change, audience need for intercative exercises and discoveries  > narratives, the need to have our book be dog-eared by repeated use

55:35 Dave’s Reflections  –  distinction between book and “not a book”, codifying a number of processes from knowledge, applying See, Learn, Decide & Commit, powerful early stage metaphor of a kid playing in a pile of leaves, experiential > prescriptiveness

59:10 F:N Housekeeping  – becoming part of our tribe, our newsletter, become part of our Futreproofing 66 champions,  biggest audience interests “Measuring the Return on Innovation” & “Agility and Increaisng the Speed of Innovation”, types of F:N solutions, our Future of Work webcast

1;02:30 Takeaways & Closeout   – “embrace the future”, hopeful – big change can happen in companies, we’re taking it on the road,  embrace change because you can’t run from it