About Bootstrapping Brilliance™
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Christina Christina Engelbart, Co-Founder / Director; Bootstrapping Brilliance instigator and coach
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"A five-point strategy for yielding more brilliant outcomes in your projects, teams and organizations, leading to more brilliant businesses, communities, and societies, and a more brilliant world."

Overview 1

Bootstrapping Brilliance™ is a practical strategy for increasing the capacity for innovation and systemic transformation in 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 and Design Thinking practitioners, this strategy dovetails to bring added leverage and acceleration at scale. And it 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:

  1. Network your community of stakeholders, innovators, alliances
  2. Leverage group smarts
  3. Target whole capability
  4. Push the frontier
  5. Bootstrap your ABCs

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.

Learn More at Your Bootstrapping Brilliance Toolkit