Breakthroughs in speaking the "desired future" - that is, the overall context in which the outcomes of the innovation will be produced: The process of speaking/inventing the "desired future" calls for generating possibilities and ideas that go outside the boundaries and orthodoxies of the organization; beyond the historical or traditional mind frame of the organization. It requires the aligment of many on ideas and possibilities, and audacious commitments made as a function of desire first, not as a function perceived feasability.
Most people in organizations have years of training in being
rational, logical and practical, which means that this "speaking the desired future" process needs to be carefully facilitated, otherwise the automatic tendency is to kill off talk of a desired future and innovative ideas as the thinking and speaking devolve to conversations for feasibilites - yeabut, how-do-we, we can't, we've never, ... are great at killing possibility and innovation.
Breakthrough in the realization of the desired future outcomes: There will be a large gap between what the committed outcome is and
what the organization knows how to do. This gap is first broken down
into a series of large breakthrough projects, each in their turn pared down to smaller more
"doable" ones - a little like a set of Russian dolls, all folding into
each other. Most of these projects will
require a breakthrough to get to their outcome - something the
organization won't know how to do. Which means that the same mindset
necessary to set the outcomes of the innovation will be required of all
project teams for a successful outcome. A competency that will be established, through LPR's innovation and breakthrough practices, is the competency in formulating and solving problems - how do we produce X outcome in Y time, go from milestone A to milestone B, given we don't know how?
Start of Innovation
End of Innovation.
Innovation is realized through a network of "breakthrough projects", designed to close the gap between the outcomes sought - the invented future - and what the organization knows to do.
