Exponential Organizations

The result is that it now takes an average of between two hundred fifty and three hundred days for a typical Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) company to move a new product from invention to retail stores’ shelves—and that, believe it or not, is considered a blistering pace.

there are two levels of immune responses. The first is to defend the core business because it’s the status quo; the second is to defend yourself as an individual because there’s more ROI for you than for the organization.

Indeed, it is very likely that a decade from now, the job of the CEO will be so completely revolutionized as to deserve a new title: Chief Exponential Officer.

Dashboard with data analytics, serious gaming and predictive insights into the development of the workforce, such as the OKRs, serendipity or learning KPIs, performance reviews, P2P reputation systems, MOOCs, etc.

R policies will focus on people who can ask them and cultivate an environment where questions, perspectives, art and culture are more deeply respected.

A key heuristic: if you operate in a highly uncertain environment, make it simple (not too many variables); if you operate in a predictable environment, make it complex (use more variables to manage BI).

Hence the need for the chief data officer, whose primary focus is managing data, finding the actionable information within, and then delivering it quickly, securely and in a useful form to every stakeholder in the organization.

Due to accelerated pace of change it is mandatory to look further into the future to launch marketing and PR campaigns by identifying when a meme is booming (predictive planning) or, even better, when it first emerges.

Real-time aggregated customer data providing insights into the behavior and emotions of customers, enabling matching of products and services with those customers (hyper-narrowcasting) and gauging demand for new concepts. Social and mobile media as the zeitgeist and thus the triggers for validated innovation.

As Peter Diamandis has said, “If you are relying on innovation solely from inside your organization, you are dead.” Find ways to leverage Community and/or Crowd for innovation; investigate co-innovation and Crowd Companies and let your employees loose.