Based on Salim Ismail's Exponential Organizations - this coaching facilitated structured disruption helps your organization rediscover new and unique value propositions - supported by experts in disruptive technologies around the world - to reinvent your Why? How? and What? allowing your to thrive in this Age of Disruption.
3. Why ExO Sprint?
Finding your response to the Disruption challenges facing your organization
Challenges
Current businessmodels
don’t work for abundance
The immune system
attacks innovation
Organizations focus most
of their time onexecution
Youcan’t learn to play
basketball by reading a book
Smartest people don’t
work for you
Traditional innovation
programs lack speed
Solutions
Service, platform and ecosystem-
based business models
Future needs a chance, applying
ambidexterity, solutions with your DNA
Learning how to apply
disciplined exploration
Learning by doing, coaching-
based approach
Providing access to curated
external knowledge
Structured, time-limited, high-
paced 10-week process
4. What isan ExO Sprint?
ExO Sprint is a structured 10-week process which helps the organization to
move forward 2 years in just 10 weeks. It consists of the following phases:
1. Pre-SprintPlanning
7. Launch
2. Awakesession
Keynote presentation mapping the latest
evolution of exponential technologies and
their impact on business and society at large.
4. Discover
Series of 5 work assignments across 5 weeks that
guide participants through the first phase of the
innovation process - focused on research, discovery,
ideation, market/customer validation andpreparation
of a disruption presentation of the chosen initiatives.
5. Disrupt
Mid-point of the Sprint where the selected initiatives from all teams
are presented to the panel of external entrepreneurs and subject
matter specialists (disruptors) whose role is to give feedback on the
presented ideas and point out improvement suggestions that the
teams can incorporate during the second half of the Sprint.
The online ExO Sprint includes the online participation of three
ExO Disruptors during the disruption session.
6. Build
The second series of 5 assignments with
a focus on going deeper, building a
minimum viable product (MVP), market
validation and sales and preparing a final
presentation to the senior leadership of
the organization.
Final presentation where the selected
initiatives are presented, final feedback is
given and the organization allocates
financial resources to the initiatives that will
be taken forward
2 Streams- Core & Edge
To help manage risk and build the mindset of
‘Ambidexterity’, the Sprint has 2 parallel streams:
Weekly Rhythm
1. Read the weeklyassignment
2. Work on the assignment (20 hours)
3. Consult the ExOEcosystem
4. Review assignment with the ExO Coach
The online ExO Sprint includes 20 tickets
(5 per team) with a 1-hour call with ExO
Advisors specialised on technology,
disruption and the ExO Model in general.
Initial and crucial stage of the Sprint where its
scope, ambition and goals are set and all
logistics are prepared.
3. Alignsession
Interactive training on the methodology that
helps participants to understand key concepts
they need to successfully go through the Sprint
•
• The Core stream (2 teams) helps to make
your organization more adaptable to the
external disruptionhappening within your
industry (Incrementalinnovation)
The Edge stream (2 teams) helps to
design new innovative start-ups on the
edge of the current organization to fully
capitalizeon the available opportunities
(Disruptive innovation)
The online ExO Sprint includes two hours
per week of support of a certified ExO
Coach per team.
5. ExO Lever Ecosystem
Global Transformation Ecosystem helping organizations, institutions and people to Unlock Abundance.
ExO Lever Ecosystem
Carefully curated global group of 300+ entrepreneurs,
thought-leaders, speakers, coaches, consultants and
industry specialists based in 35+ countries around the
world. Sample expertiseincludes:
•Artificial Intelligence
•3D Printing
•Bio Technology
•Nano Technology
•Design Thinking
•Experimentation
•Graphene
•Coaching
•Leadership
•Autonomy
•Cybersecurity
•Energy
•Internet of Things
•Finance
•Robotics
•Drones
•Transportation
•Innovation
ExO Lever Platform
Custom-designed online platform that supports all our
methodologies, connects our clients with the ecosystem,
provides content related to our projects and facilitates
opportunities for interaction, transformation and personal
and professional growth.
“I am very proud to participate in the ExO movement.”
“The strength of ExO is in the community, the potential of
the network and the dedication of individuals toward a
common passion of using exponential thinking to
positively influence society.”
“Thank you for letting me be part of this network and the
dreams and ambitions of the ExO community.”
“Excellent opportunity to learn, connect, put the
principles into practice and trigger new initiatives. In one
word: inspiring.”
“Outstanding community. Delighted to be included.”
6. ExO Sprint Outcomes
“If you are not already in the business of doing ExO Sprints and experimenting then
you’re halfway to being disrupted already.”
TonySaldanha, VP,IT & Global BusinessServices, P&G
“The most important thing I see after running the ExO Sprint is a shift in theculture.”
Guayente Sanmartin, GM at HP Large FormatDesign
“We were in the perfect place to be disrupted but didn't know where to begin. The ExO
Sprint was the answer. It completely transformed our culture, breaking down
boundaries and opening a whole new world of innovation. It prompted us to make the
best of ourselves.”
Francisco Casanueva, CEO, INTERproteccion
“I really love the ExO Methodology, learning by doing, continuous pivoting around the
customer, testing and work to connect ExO Attributes with our ideas. This will really
change the way I work.”
Online Sprint participant
Key outcomes asreported by past ExO Sprint clients:
• Awareness - participants are aware of exponential trends, disruptive start ups
and new business models appearing in their and other industries
• Mindset change - participants start thinking in an exponential way, act with
more agility and autonomy, do more with less and achieve results faster
• Building internal capabilities - organizations can continue running Sprints in
the future, with our without ExO Lever support
• Certification - participants can obtain ExO Sprint Alumni or ExO Sprint
Champion certification and become part of the ExO Lever Ecosystem
• Core and Edge projects ready for implementation- Initiatives to transform
the organization and disrupt the industry