Centered

Live Workshop · Thursday, October 1

The 6 Tensions of Innovation

How the best organizations move ideas from pilot to P&L.

Bring one initiative that has stalled short of production. Leave knowing which of the six is holding it there, which way it has tipped, and the first move to release it.

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Free · 60 minutes · live with JL Heather and Preston Chandler

JL Heather
JL Heather Co-founder of Centered
Preston Chandler
Preston Chandler Co-founder of Centered
Format
Live online
Length
60 minutes
When
Oct 1, 5:00pm ET
Open to
CEOs & exec teams

About this session

Of your last ten validated pilots, how many reached production scale?

The ideas were good, the pilots worked, and the value never arrived, because the distance between a pilot and the P&L is not a distance ideas can cross on their own.

Innovation that pays depends on six tensions being held in balance. Each one is a pair pulling in opposite directions, and there is no safe end to stand at. Collapse either way and the work stalls, for different reasons and at a different cost.

This is a free, 60-minute working session. JL Heather and Preston Chandler of Centered walk through all six, and you take each diagnostic to your own organization as you go.

Come with one initiative that has stalled. Leave knowing which tension is holding it, and what to do about it first.

An hour, three things

See the six

The six tensions that decide whether an idea reaches production, and what it costs you when one collapses, in either direction.

Apply the six

A diagnostic for each of the six, answered about your own organization as you go.

Leave with one move

Not a program. One first move on one tension, sized to start this quarter without a budget request.

Thursday, October 1 at 5:00pm ET

Free, 60 minutes, live with JL Heather and Preston Chandler. Bring one initiative that has stalled short of production.

At Centered we care about your privacy. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise make your details available to third parties.

What you'll walk away with

01

Where your organization sits on all six tensions, and which way each one is leaning, by the end of the hour.

02

How to tell a tension that is genuinely costing you from one that merely looks untidy.

03

One first move you can start before the quarter closes.

Who it's for

Leaders who have launched the lab, run the sprint and held the offsite, and watched the organization absorb all three.

  • CEOs and founders
  • C-suite and exec teams
  • Innovation, product and transformation leaders
  • Division and business unit leaders
  • Anyone accountable for a pipeline that has to reach the P&L

Who's running it

JL Heather and Preston Chandler, co-founders of Centered

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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Register now

An hour to find out which of the six is holding your pipeline short of production, and to leave with something you can actually do 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.

Previous sessions

Two workshops you can watch right now

The Cost of Can't, August, on why teams say “we can't” without thinking and how to tell a real constraint from a decision in disguise. Ship What Works, July, on moving ideas through an organization that has learned to stall them. Both run the full sixty minutes, both are free, and neither needs you to be there at a particular time.

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