Christina Engelbart, Co-Founder / Director;
Bootstrapping Brilliance instigator and coach
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Meet Gardner at Virginia Commonwealth University;
Check out his story of Bootstrapping Brilliance the Doug Engelbart Way under
Case Examples below
"A five-point strategy for yielding more brilliant outcomes in your initiatives, teams, and organizations, leading to more brilliant businesses, communities, and societies, and a brilliant world."
Bootstrapping Brilliance™ is a practical strategy for increasing the capacity for innovation and systemic transformation within initiatives, organizations, and societies, while 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, Exponential, and Design Thinking practitioners, this strategy dovetails to bring added leverage and acceleration at scale. And serves as a template for what Doug Engelbart envisioned for networked improvement communities (NICs).
Five organizing principles offer strategic insight, alignment, and leverage to increasingly accelerate and expand results:
Network your community of stakeholders, innovators, alliances
Form your team - ask who should be part of the solution, inform your team,
join forces in networked improvement communities?
Leverage collective smarts
Equip your network - ask how best to engage, capture,
exploit your Collective IQ?
Target whole capability
Augment your goals - ask which essential
capabilities will you improve?
Accelerate co-evolution
Get strategic - push out on the frontier with rapid prototypes, use expeditions
and pilot outposts to advance your target capability, explicitly co-evolving tool and human elements
Bootstrap your ABCs
Get the multiplier/scaling effect - walk your talk,
improve how you improve, network your networks...
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.
While Demming provided the improvement approach
for the industrial age,
Doug provided the innovation approach
for the knowledge age.
You can apply these tools alone, or as an extension to your in-place innovation practice. Strategies like Lean Startup lay a great 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 the basics of both practices.
Christina Engelbart presents the big picture strategy in her talk "Taking the Challenge Forward" at the 2018 event CHM Live: Solving today's great problems? Lessons from Engelbart's Demo @50. [see event site]
During the presentation, she references a short tribute video shown earlier in the program: A New Paradigm for Humanity's Collective IQ.
Christina Engelbart briefly presents Doug's strategy as practiced in his lab, and (@10:20) distills that into the five point strategy for Bootstrapping Brilliance. Christina's talk, presented at the Coalition for Networked Information, introduces a case example presented by Professor Gardner Campbell. [see abstract] See Bootstrapping the Future under Case Examples below for Gardner's case retold (@19:20).
In this panel discussion on Bootstrapping the Future, Christina begins with an overview of key concepts, followed at 19:20 by panel of case examples from Gardner Campbell (VCU), Stephanie Couch (Lemelson-MIT Program), Brant Cooper (Moves the Needle).
[see event site]
Watch the supplemental playlist of case example shorts from these same three initiatives, with more specifics on VCU and Lemelson-MIT at our Community Showcase.
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.
Short teaser of Doug presenting. Visit our Engelbart Academy for more of Doug on his foundational strategic framework and call to action presented to a variety of audiences.
See Doug Engelbart's Call to Action, and browse the Engelbart Academy to watch him presenting his strategic vision to a variety of audiences (it's free).
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