What is your insurance for a Black Swan event?
A black swan event, or disruptive competitor puts the leadership, and decisions leaders make in the spotlight. Yet, historical performance, hierarchical organisational structures and depth of experience does little to prepare our current leaders for this level of almost real-time change and uncertainty. When a black swan event occurs the speed at which the organisation must change increases exponentially. Most organisations have people to optimise, using continual improvement, energise a business with incremental gains and those willing to explore adjacent innovation models. Yet traditional organisations don’t have transformational innovation because these people come up with models that will cannibalise the cow, they are seen as an existential threat.
You can’t navigate Chaos, so embrace it
COVID-19 was unexpected, because of this you probably entered the chaotic domain unintentionally. When this occurs, the organisation considers it a crisis. When the domain of chaos is entered intentionally, it is the space for true innovation. yet your team isn’t likely to have anybody on it who understands the domain of disruptive innovation so can’t take advantage of the current environment.
Experience exponential growth from antifragility
We create frameworks that allow the teams experiment and learn from chaos intentionally to become antifragile. Antifragile systems can withstand and benefit from this kind of outlier event and will make exponential gains. Resilient companies gains are measured and capped. A new set of rules is required to navigate and reinvent within the complex socio‐economic systems that will change due to the pandemic. COVID-19 will lead to more innovation in this time period than we saw in the past 10 years because it’s necessary for survival. Companies that don’t change the way they work will fail. I work with your team to develop strategies & create innovative business approaches for disruptive technologies. I provide a new commercial model or access to investment for disruptive and creative sustainability-focused companies.
