Your Bootstrapping Brilliance™ Toolkit
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Christina Engelbart, Co-Founder / Director; Bootstrapping Brilliance instigator and coach

Meet Gardner at Virginia Commonwealth Univ - check out his case example (below)

Overview 1

Bootstrapping Brilliance™ is a practical strategy for taking your initiatives, teams and organizations to the next level. Also known as Bootstrapping Innovation™, this strategy is designed to help jump the curve more rapidly from the current path of doing business and transforming itself, to a more expansive, accelerative future path. It's a template for implementing Doug Engelbart's Strategy for Bootstrapping your ABCs and networked improvement communities (NICs). And for Lean, Agile, and Design Thinking prac­ti­tioners, this strategy easily dovetails for added leverage. At its core, Boot­strap­ping Brilliance is about improving how you improve, increasing capacity for innovation and continuous trans­formation, while pro-actively increasing Collective IQ.

Five organizing principles offer strategic insight, alignment, and leverage to increasingly accelerate and expand results:

1. Network your community of stakeholders, innovators, alliances
   Form your group – ask who best to inform your pursuit, join your network, your expedition?
2. Leverage group smarts
   Equip your network – ask how best to engage, interact, capture, exploit your Collective IQ
3. Target whole capability
   Frame your goals – ask which essential capabilities you will cultivate, augment, improve?
4. Push the frontier
   Launch pilot expeditions – how far out can you push, how fast? - rapid prototyping, 'co-evolution' are key
5. Bootstrap your ABCs
   Improve how you improve to get that multiplier-scaling effect

For a summary overivew, see our Bootstrapping Brilliance Highlights.

Bootstrapping Brilliance is a distillation of Doug Engelbart's strategic vision put to practice. It is essentially the same strategic approach he applied in his own research team for a powerful multiplier effect with continuous breakthrough results, which he continued to refine and teach throughout his career in key lectures and management seminars now available at the Engelbart Academy.

Resources 2

The Basics 2a

You can apply these tools alone, or as an extension to your existing innovation practice. Strategies like Lean Startup (and Design Thinking, Agile, etc.) lay a robust foundation for Bootstrapping Brilliance, and offer a large, inclusive, experience-rich community with easy-to-use tools and loads of case examples. Here are links to some basics, followed by Bootstrapping Brilliance presentations.

• Lean Startup Basics - a brief introduction to one popular strategy, with links to key resources
• Bootstrapping Brilliance Highlights - one page overview
• Watch Bootstrapping Brilliance presentations
  

  Watch Taking the Challenge Forward - Christina Engelbart presents the big picture strategy in her talk at the 2018 event CHM Live: Solving today's great problems? Lessons from Engelbart's Demo @50. [see event site] Here's a link to the short tribute video she references in her talk, shown earlier in the program: A New Paradigm for Humanity's Collective IQ.

  Watch Basic principles of Bootstrapping Brilliance - Christina Engelbart presents the key concepts, using Prof. Gardner Campbell's university 'cMOOC' initiative as a case in point (beamed into Gardner's panel at the NMC Summer Conference 2014). See below Bootstrapping the Future under Case Examples for Gardner's case retold, and #2 in the Doug's lab example for another brief unfolding of Bootstrapping Brilliance.

Case Examples 2b

• Watch panelists discuss their case examples
  

  Watch Bootstrapping the Future - begins with Christina Engelbart presenting overview, followed (@19:20) by Gardner Campbell (VCU), Stephanie Couch (Lemelson-MIT), and Brant Cooper (Moves the Needle). [see event site] See also supplemental playlist of case example shorts from these three initiatives, with more specifics on VCU and Lemelson-MIT at our Community Showcase.	Watch Solving Today's Great Problems? Lessons From Engelbart's Demo @50 - Paul Saffo moderates a panel discussion of case examples with Erika Gregory (NSquare), Ben Rattray (Change.org), Erika Woolsey (National Geographic Explorer). [see event site] More specifics on these three at our Community Showcase.
  Visit our Community Showcase for more on these and other case studies.

Learn from Doug 2c

• Watch Doug Engelbart presenting
  

  Watch short teaser on The Opportunity	Watch his Vision Highlights
  Visit our Engelbart Academy for more Doug presenting, and Top Picks from our Library Highlights for recommended reading.

Press 2d

• "What Would Doug Engelbart Do?" Ask Organizers of a Silicon Valley Event - in IEEE Spectrum, fabulous introduction covering the above panel discussion led by Paul Saffo.
• Collective IQ and Continuous Improvement - appearing in Roblog, an excellent quick runthrough of key concepts.
• Internet Pioneer's Greatest Contribution May Not Be Technological - article by the Internet Hall of Fame showcasing Professor Gardner Campbell's case example of Doug Engelbart's legacy moving forward
• Doug Engelbart's Design for High Performance Innovative Organizations, Patty Seybold
• Bootstrapping Innovation: Leveraging the Collective IQ to Achieve Powerful Results - press article by Ronni Marshak, Senior Consultant/Analyst, Patricia Seybold Group, June 3, 2010
• Improve Your Ecosystem's Ability to Tackle Complex Issues - companion article by Patty Seybold, in Outside Innovation, June 6, 2010

Getting Started 3

Start by mapping your team or organization

    Your Bootstrapping Brilliance Toolkit

• Bootstrapping Brilliance Highlights - one page overview
• Coming Soon A How To Guide for Bootstrapping Brilliance - walking you through the basics, with worksheets instructions and helpful tips
• Map Your ABCs - a worksheet for briefly mapping your organization as is, and overlaying the A, B, and C improvement opportunities
• Bootstrapping Brilliance Map - a self-assessment exercise to map your group or organization in each of the five areas
• See Case Examples above, as well as our Networked Community Showcase, for tips and inspiration.

Further Inquiry 4

    For more background

• Visit the Engelbart Academy to learn about Doug Engelbart's Vision and Strategy - the driving force behind this initiative
• Glossary of Key Concepts - to keep the lingo straight
• Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century - just the highlights, by Douglas C. Engelbart and Christina Engelbart (four pages)
• About Us - making the case for the bigger picture
• Top Picks from our Library for recommended reading