Enter Stage Right : The Future Beyond Innovation - Bigger, Better, Bolder, Simpler Futures

Innovation has had an important, yet spotty 70 year run in our corporate hallways, startup garages, academic thinktanks and government test kitchens. Innovation has captured our popular imagination, it has captured our business imagination, it has captured our national imagination,  it has captured our media esteem and extrinsic view of ourselves,  it has captured our literary and academic imagination … and it’s not enough. Read on.

A. Feature Futureproofing Article — The Future Beyond Innovation

Attached is our rallying cry article, it's been a great ride, but we need something else beyond merely innovation, enter stage right: Futureproofing.

B. Featured Exploration — "Both Sides Now"

Polarization is worse than it has ever been. Even in situations of extreme fact, more than 25% of us are willing to take the other side, departing from reason and focusing more on judging the source. 2020-2022 was our health pandemic, read up on the social epidemic of our age in "Both Sides Now".

C. Featured Deep Dive — 33 Forces - "The Wanings"

Get steeped on what's changed. I mean really steeped. Too often we pass over history and sweep it under the carpet. If you care about the profession of change, study not only where it's going, but where it's come from. I've looked at the history behind innovation, with evidence. Thirty-three instrumental forces in total. Here are "The Wanings" — 12 innovation+ forces and influences that used to hold court but now are on the wane from the last 120 years. It's the first instalment of three articles on what's guiding the trajectory of innovation: 33 Forces - The Wanings.

D. Featured Poll Results — The Semantics of Change

We asked an enlightened group what they preferred to call work in change environments. It would appear "transformation" is en vogue.

E. Featured Futureproofing Stack Element — "The Gallery"

We have one of the most extensive array of keynotes across nearly every change and future-related topic; a full range of 55 change-related keynotes, briefings & workshops ready to inspire and help companies and team take the first steps, and next steps. Consider our Innovation+ Suite of Nine.

F. Feature Guild Article — Twenty-One Grey Swans

Myself and Guild co-founder Rob Tyrie posted our anticipated 21 wild cards for the year back in January, we call them Grey Swans. Twenty-one improbable (less than 25% chance), but high impact events for the coming year: 21 Grey Swans for 2022.

G. Featured Canvas/Tool — The Innovation+ Venture Charter

Too many popular schools of change just magically think innovation projects have the authority and right to succeed right out of the gate. All the thinkers and creatives need to do is craft and iterate great ideas. The truth is the real world is very different. This is Canvas A in our Futureproofing arsenal - "The Innovation+ Venture Charter" - the 10Ps of consideration before embarking on a new initiative. It's all described in our upcoming book and Academy masterclass series.

H. Feature Foresight Venture — Project Köti - The Future of Homes and Home Life

Futureproofing Labs is conducting one of the deepest explorations of homes & the entire arena of home life and wants your involvement. We launched our survey this week. The final report is due by May. If you or anybody you know, understands where the future of homes and home life is going we want you in our collaboration now!

Interest? Please let us know. Take the survey: https://bit.ly/projectkoti

I. Feature Shift — "Sleep"

Over the next few weeks, I'll be teasing out a curation of the subject of sleep and how it is affecting our collective performance. It's both personally and professionally interesting. Consider the following change in average sleep patterns over the last eighty years and yawn ... but this time with interest.

J. Featured Event — Biomimicry and Biophilic Design

Join myself and other Guild members this Friday April 6th 12pm ET on LinkedIn as we discuss how nature can be an excellent source of invention, design & innovation. Pre-register here: https://bit.ly/gsgcraftlibiomimicry

K. Featured Stat — C-Suite Ownership of Innovation

Make no mistake about it. Futureproofing & Innovation is an executive level competency.

L. Featured Quote — Response to Change

Until next time,

Sean Moffitt, Founder & Managing Director, Futureproofing

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Futureproofing — The Future Beyond Innovation

Futureproofing operates as a hub for the future beyond innovation. We believe to be truly effective, helpful and to get companies, teams and people unstuck, we have built out 11 facets to our business operation:

• The Gallery — a full range of 55 change-related keynotes, briefings & workshops ready to inspire and take the first steps
• The Hangar — delivery of the work, selective or end-to-end sprints, experiments and CoLabs which get teams through key hurdles
• The Hatchery — optimizing for better & bolder organization value via business model, value proposition and ecosystem pivots & expansions
• The Academy — creating a training & learning experience to improve the skills, acumen and certification of futureproofers everywhere
• The Refinery — through over a decade of understanding and mapping the drivers of change, expert audits of org., team & personal future-readiness
• Futureproofing Labs — fresh content and expert intelligence for a fast approaching future — reports and research that navigates what’s ahead
• The Distillery — bridging the distance between unthinkable and possible through corporate ventures, partnerships and incubation
• Futureproofing Forums — open & executive-only conversations with the world’s top change voices through webcasts, events & masterminds
• Futureproofing 66° — our front row of innovation+ & change champions, leading executives, passionate collaborators and practitioner innovators
• The Vault — a comprehensive directory of resources designed to actually help change agents via online resources, tools and enewsletters
• The Futureproofing Awards — global role models for a future-ready change and innovation+ across twenty+ different categories

The organization is led by Sean Moffitt, and is supported by a number of leading change agents from around the world.

Interested? Curious? Get in touch with us here.

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