In this era of accelerating change, the challenges and opportunities we face are rapidly shifting, becoming increasingly more expansive, complex, and often urgent. So our organizations and initiatives are needing to get more adept at rising to the cause and succeeding in the midst of such challenges. Doug Engelbart fleshed out his vision and call to action with a strategic framework for shifting the trajectory, becoming the highly evolved, much more capable organizations of the future sooner, by organizing for more brilliant outcomes, while improving how they improve.
Who is this for? See Start Where You Are below. Explore strategy basics through the concept bubbles that follow, and browse the many resources under Learn More below.
Pushing the envelope of what's achievable or knowable involves
augmenting key capabilities in your teams, initiatives,
organizations and stakeholders
– facilitating the evolution out on a frontier.
Explore by Category:
Explore Key Concepts
Which best depicts your pursuit?
Enabling Tech - facilitating engagement across the board
Building on First Principles:
Yields Strategic Leverage
Building on First Principles:
Bootstrap your ABCs to accelerate transformation
Building on First Principles:
Pushing the Capability Frontier
Building on First Principles:
Leverage Collective IQ for more brilliant outcomes
Launch Scenarios - how might you proceed? scale up?
Form Networked Improvement "NICs"
Consider joining forces with like-minded initiatives in a 'NIC' to share results and learnings; consider especially an 'ABC NIC' with fellow ABC task forces
Enabling Technology "OHS"
Pursue best of open, evolvable hyperdoc tools to enhance #3 engagement,
capture, utility
Sample Scenario - regardless of your primary pursuit:
Start anywhere in the process, cycle through in any order that makes sense to your situation. For those who pick and choose, benefits are additive,
while taking an integrative, all-in approach
offers the greatest bootstrapping leverage, with the greatest ROI.
Assign an ABC task force as part of your initiative for a
deeper dive;
Consider joining forces with other ABC task forces in an
'ABC NIC' to share in the exploration; Join or form other
NICs to enhance results in your primary pursuit; see NIC
Notes below
for more;
Begin employing the best practices and tools you can
muster to facilitate your pursuit(s) – harnessing
your Collective IQ – using First Principles and the
OHS tech template
as a guide;
Identify which strategic capabilities to cultivate,
improve, augment early on, distilling their human-tool
elements to frame your minimum viable prototype (MVP)
design;
Field your MVP in build-test-learn human-tool pilot(s)
to accelerate the co-evolution, frontier learnings,
and results;
Your greatest point of leverage: to purse capability
that increase effectiveness for C, B, and A activities
-- improving how you improve, getting smarter at getting
smarter; greater still when you multiply your efforts
in ABC NICs and alliances of ABC NICs, and an ABC
Grand Challenge;
Explore best of open, evolvable hyperdoc tools (OHS)
to streamline #3 engagement, capture, utility,
both within and
across initiatives.
NIC Notes:
a NIC is an expeditionary force out on the frontier, scouting, mapping, researching options and solutions, fielding pilots, paving the way for its members to advance their home initiatives with greater assurance, resources, and ROI than otherwise possible;
your task force participates in the NIC(s) hands on, continuously transferring shared learnings, findings, and prototypes into home pilot usage;
your ABC NIC is paving the way with best practices and enabling technology for added bootstrapping leverage to all other pursuits and NICs;
NICs form alliances with related initiatives to expand results;
Alliances of NICs also form at the Grand Challenge level to advance key capability, best practices and tools for any and all initiatives pursuing important challenges worldwide to their highest potential.
This strategy is especially suited for initiatives like the following,
and dovetails neatly with existing in-place strategies to accelerate progress.
Find your primary pursuit below, to better explore the concepts above:
Organizational Improvement Initiatives - such as Lean, Agile, Design Thinking initiatives pursuing continuous improvement within the organization;
Networked Improvement Communities - alliances formed to advance a particular cause or capability, such as in healthcare, educational, or economic initiatives, professional societies, consortia, NGOs, task force, network of networks, etc.;
Your Team or Initiative - such as a project team,
learning circle, leading edge research team, program development team, or initiatives tackling important causes in communities, government, or society at large.
Extra bootstrapping leverage available for those whose primary pursuit is:
Boosting Collective Intelligence - initiatives improving how people engage and shape their thinking, vision, sensemaking, insights, problem solving, collective action, knowledge work, dialog, collaboration, tools for thought, extended mind, intelligence augmentation (IA), information flow, digital libraries, etc.
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