What do these 3 innovations have in common?
Vaccines, Space Travel, and Symphonies
They share a flawed assumption that breakthroughs are the sole domain of large organizations, established experts, or pure genius. We can show you how to harness insights from the best innovators, and develop your team’s radical adaptability muscle to achieve exponential results.
Özlem Türeci
She discovered a vaccine.
In 2020, biologists found a vaccine for the coronavirus in record time. But it wasn’t scientists from the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with billions in capital who discovered the vaccine first; it was a nimble company called BioNTech founded by the husband and wife team of Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci that used new methods to solve a complex problem. How can you use similar easily-accessible digital tools and approaches to create similar breakthroughs in your business?
Sir Richard Branson
He commercialized space travel.
Going to space was the domain of government entities for decades, until scrappy entrepreneurs and nonprofits pioneered new ways to open space to private travel. Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flew its first passengers in 2021, and along with other private space transportation companies changed the story of humanity by taking a diversity of humans to space, including the oldest, and the first with a prosthetic. How can you adopt the same problem-solving mindset to achieve similar moonshots in life?
Ludwig V. Beethoven
AI finished his thoughts.
One of the greatest composers in history, Ludwig van Beethoven’s classical pieces have inspired humanity for generations. But nearly 200 years after his death in 1826, no one dared replicate Beethoven’s thoughts and attempt to finish his 10th symphony. That is until 2021, when an artificial intelligence system was deployed to analyze his entire classical repertoire, and “finished” his final symphony. How can you use similar generative AI technology to create your own masterpiece?
These innovations are not lucky breakthroughs, or a result of mere creative brainstorming, or the domain of a single genius. They are a result of a methodical approach to problem solving and high velocity team collaboration that everyone on your team can emulate, every day, to make your impossible dream, possible.
Solving hard problems takes more than just new technology. That’s just called invention. Successful innovation on the other hand, is a combination of art, science, and human behavior. And so in addition to deploying new tech and tools, you also have to change how your team interacts with the problem, and behaves with each other daily. That’s the secret to lasting transformation.
At Geolab, we train your team on both dimensions required to make innovation stick: how to identify new tech and business insights; and how to develop critical behavioral skills necessary for your team to make innovation repeatable, scalable, and impactful.