Live Workshop · Wednesday, November 11
Exploration vs. Execution. How to build next year’s growth without losing this quarter.
Part two of The 6 Tensions of Innovation series. Bring a rough split of where your innovation money and time go today. Leave knowing which way your portfolio has tipped, and one move to rebalance it.
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About this session
We’ll dive into the tension of exploration and execution, and how they pull against each other in every budget meeting.
Lean too far toward exploring and the work never connects to the business.
Lean too far toward executing and the pipeline you will need in two years quietly stops filling.
Neither end is safe, and most leadership teams cannot say with confidence which way they are leaning.
This is a free, 60-minute working session. You answer Centered’s own diagnostic questions about your organization as you go, out loud or on paper.
Come with a rough split of where your innovation money and time go today. Leave knowing which way it has tipped, and the first move to bring it back.
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Wednesday, November 11 at 1:00pm ET. Free, 60 minutes, live with JL and Preston.
At Centered we care about your privacy. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise make your details available to third parties.
Plenty of pilots, labs and promising demos. Very little of it ever reaches a customer at scale or shows up in the numbers.
“we can’t ship anything or connect it to the business”
The core business runs well and every quarter is defended. Nothing new is being built to replace it when it slows.
“we can’t take our eye off this quarter”
What exploration and execution each look like when they are working, and the signals that tell you one has started crowding out the other.
Centered’s diagnostic, answered about your own organization: where your bets sit across core, adjacent and transformational, and how many pilots actually reach production scale.
Not a program. One first move to rebalance, sized to start this quarter without a budget request.
Wednesday, November 11 at 1:00pm ET
Free, 60 minutes, live with JL Heather and Preston Chandler. Bring a rough split of where your innovation money and time go today.
At Centered we care about your privacy. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise make your details available to third parties.
Which way your organization is leaning between exploration and execution, and what that lean is costing you.
A way to tell a pilot that is learning something from one that is simply never going to ship.
One first move you can start before the quarter closes.
Leaders who own both this year’s numbers and the pipeline that has to replace them.
JL Heather
Co-founder of Centered
Author of The Cost of Can't and co-author of The Agile Code. Fifteen years consulting with Ford, Pfizer, HP, Sprint/T-Mobile and Wendy's. PCC-credentialed coach.
Preston Chandler
Co-founder of Centered
Co-author of The Agile Code. 20+ years helping organizations move faster by cutting waste, not corners. He leads the Breakthrough Lab Method™, integrating Lean and Agile with human-centered design.
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An hour to find out which way your innovation portfolio has tipped, and to leave with one move you can actually make about it.
Can't make the time? Register anyway and we'll send you the replay.
At Centered we care about your privacy. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise make your details available to third parties.
The 6 Tensions of Innovation, October, the full framework this session builds on. Also in the library: The Cost of Can't, August, and Ship What Works, July. All free, all the full sixty minutes. You do not need part one to join part two.