Exponential Transformation: Evolve Your Organization (and Change the World) With a 10-Week ExO Sprint - Softcover

Ismail, Salim; Palao, Francisco; Lapierre, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119611393 ISBN 13: 9781119611394

Publisher: Wiley, 2019

Synopsis

A practical handbook for using Exponential Organization to transform your organization―and disrupt your industry―in 10 weeks

Today’s top business challenge is adapting to accelerating technological and global change. In his bestselling book Exponential Organizations, author Salim Ismail described a new type of organization that thrives amidst industry disruption. Since then, he has helped organizations disrupt their own industries―by applying Exponential Organization (ExO) principles. From this work emerged the 10-week transformation process explained in this book, called the ExO Sprint.

Exponential Transformation is the detailed implementation handbook for becoming an Exponential Organization. The book enables organizations to speed up their transformation and overcome the obstacles to success. 

• Lead a 10-week ExO Sprint
• Evolve in order to navigate industry disruption
• Become an Exponential Organization
• Block the immune-system response of organizations during transformation

Companies such as Visa, Procter & Gamble, HP, and Black & Decker have already benefited from ExO process. Exponential Transformation is a must-have resource for participants of any ExO Sprint, as well as those seeking to apply Exponential principles in their organizations. 

About this title

About the Author

Salim Ismail spent the last seven years building Singularity University as its founding executive director and current global ambassador. He is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and travels extensively lecturing on how organizations can leverage ongoing technology disruptions to grow 10x faster than their peers. Singularity University has empowered people from more than 85 countries to apply disruptive technologies - biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience - to more than 100 startups and countless patents and ideas. Prior to Singularity, Salim was a vice president at Yahoo, where he built and ran Brickhouse, the company's internal incubator. His last company, Ångströ, a news aggregation startup, was sold to Google in 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies.

Francisco Palao is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator with deep experience helping corporations transform. After receiving his PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Francisco launched several disruptive startups the led him to understand the importance of applying the right innovation methodologies together with cutting-edge technologies. He designed the ExO Sprint methodology and has been dedicated to its continual improvement and accessibility.

Michelle Lapierre has made a career of supporting business leadership and senior management in responding to change. As a consultant and business advisor, she has facilitated full-scale transformation in the public and private sectors through leadership, coaching, and implementation support. Her work today empowers organizations to decode industry disruption using the ExO Sprint model.

From the Back Cover

Exponential Transformation

Evolve your organization (and change the world) with a 10-week ExO Sprint

Today's top business challenge is how to adapt to accelerating technological change. The convergence of new exponentially advancing technologies is blurring the lines between physical, digital and biological realms. The results are a complete uprooting of industries the world over.

The bestselling book Exponential Organizations by globally recognized technology strategist Salim Ismail explained the emergence of a new kind of organization―the Exponential Organization―that thrives in the face of industry disruption and achieves its own exponential growth.

Now, Exponential Transformation presents a step-by-step guide for any organization that wants to stay ahead of industry disruption and leverage the opportunities presented by exponential technologies.

The authors worked with leading organizations around the world to help them apply Exponential Organization principles. The result is a 10-week process called the ExO Sprint, which speeds transformation while blocking the natural immune system response that organizations must overcome to successfully transform themselves.

Exponential Transformation explains how any existing traditional business can transform itself into an Exponential Organization.

"I have always admired and been awed by people who have floated successful businesses and are well known for creativity and innovation. I thought that it was a gift or special talent―more so, a talent that I lacked. My experience with the ExO Sprint has taught me that innovation is not just about having great ideas but also knowing how to convert those ideas into viable, impactful business opportunities. It has made me aware of the unlimited intellectual resources available in the world that we can tap into to solve almost any problem."
―Priya Narayanswamy, ExO Sprint Participant

From the Inside Flap

Exponential Transformation

Evolve your organization (and change the world) with a 10-week ExO Sprint

Today's top business challenge is how to adapt to accelerating technological change. The convergence of new exponentially advancing technologies is blurring the lines between physical, digital and biological realms. The results are a complete uprooting of industries the world over.

The bestselling book Exponential Organizations by globally recognized technology strategist Salim Ismail explained the emergence of a new kind of organization—the Exponential Organization—that thrives in the face of industry disruption and achieves its own exponential growth.

Now, Exponential Transformation presents a step-by-step guide for any organization that wants to stay ahead of industry disruption and leverage the opportunities presented by exponential technologies.

The authors worked with leading organizations around the world to help them apply Exponential Organization principles. The result is a 10-week process called the ExO Sprint, which speeds transformation while blocking the natural immune system response that organizations must overcome to successfully transform themselves.

Exponential Transformation explains how any existing traditional business can transform itself into an Exponential Organization.

"I have always admired and been awed by people who have floated successful businesses and are well known for creativity and innovation. I thought that it was a gift or special talent—more so, a talent that I lacked. My experience with the ExO Sprint has taught me that innovation is not just about having great ideas but also knowing how to convert those ideas into viable, impactful business opportunities. It has made me aware of the unlimited intellectual resources available in the world that we can tap into to solve almost any problem."
—Priya Narayanswamy, ExO Sprint Participant

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119611393
• ISBN 13: 9781119611394
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384