Bootstrapping Brilliance™
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Bootstrapping Brilliance™ is a practical strategy for increasing the capacity for innovation and systemic transformation in groups, organizations, networks and societies, by increasing their Collective IQ. Also known as Bootstrapping Innovation™, this strategy is designed to help the organization jump the curve more rapidly from the current path of doing business and transforming itself, to a future more brilliant accelerative path. For Lean, Agile and Design Thinking practitioners, this strategy dovetails beautifully to bring added leverage and acceleration at scale.
Five organizing principles offer strategic insight, alignment, and leverage to increasingly accelerate and expand results:
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
While Demming provided the improvement approach for the industrial age, Doug provided the innovation approachfor the knowledge age.
You can apply these tools alone, or as an extension to your Lean Startup practice (or equivalent). Lean Startup lays a great foundation for Bootstrapping Brilliance, and offers a large, inclusive, experience-rich community with easy-to-use tools and loads of case examples. Here are links to the basics of both practices.
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Bootstrapping Innovation provides a structure for empowering people to solve complex problems together – leveraging the untapped potential of people, knowledge, and tools – to help us make smarter choices, achieve more brilliant outcomes, and increase innovation capacity and overall effectiveness.
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