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Exuberant choreographer of system innovation. Embracing complexity to do bigger things in an exciting and messy world. Founding partner of @innoecosystem

Michigan, USA
Joined August 2008
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my amazing wife @JenniferWiIde has a book launch in the US today! if you work in a business or organisation of any size, it's a great blueprint for real innovation 🔥🤍 amazon.com/dp/1639080988
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I wrote Do Bigger Things to encourage people to set bolder goals. It is out today, and I could not be more excited to share it with you. Get your copy amazon.com/dp/1639080988
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“Today, as the world becomes more complex... how we think about innovation must continue to evolve… Dan McClure and Jennifer Wilde usher in another timely revolution in innovation thinking. “ Jim Highsmith- Agile manifesto signatory amzn.to/3vH3OyV
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What skills do you need to thrive on innovation and change in the future? Whether you are in #product, #innovationmanagement, or #entreprenurship - this short quiz should give you some ideas about the next step forward.
Are you a Next Generation Innovator? Check out this 3 min quiz: bit.ly/44C5Bla The world is changing at increasing speed. #innovation practices must keep up. Learn about how to advance your practice #innovationmanagement #complexity #product #entreprenurship
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Come along and hear about a practical framework to embrace AI now and in the future.
THIS THURSDAY: Who Speaks for the Humans? 🤔 We need a new framework of thinking to embrace #AI's full capacity Explore how to harness the power of AI as a tool, and not a threat July 27th, 11:30am ET Secure your place ➡ lnkd.in/edpNWgTu bit.ly/3Kg1TFA
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Last chance for free support on 1. AI, 2. innovation projects or 3. systems tools. Private message us or reply to this tweet with the number you want support with.
📣 Exciting Announcement 🚀and FREE Support for 🔥1 How do I leverage AI in my business 🔥2 I'm stuck with my innovation, change initiative, or project 🔥3 I want to utilize systems tools, but am struggling Over the past year, many of you have reached out, we've been listening
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If anyone needs support with these challenges we have some great possibilities for you. Reply to the tweet or message me if we can help
📣 Exciting Announcement 🚀and FREE Support for 🔥1 How do I leverage AI in my business 🔥2 I'm stuck with my innovation, change initiative, or project 🔥3 I want to utilize systems tools, but am struggling Over the past year, many of you have reached out, we've been listening
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#UNDP has been forging new approaches to tackling #innovation in the development sector. They have embraced #complexity rather than pretending it doesn't exist. Their model is 👁 See the system 🌱 Generate possibilities 💪 Build collective will bit.ly/40XoEUX
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More than the science fiction rocket ships 🚀 I read about as a kid, William Gibson novels gave me the first real sense of how the world could change. Not apocalyptic, not nirvana, but genuinely 'different'.
"My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in 10 years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.” William Gibson How do you act for the future, considering the accelerating pace of changes?
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A while ago @JenniferWiIde and I talked about how to use Systems Innovation to make significant change. youtu.be/u__wjsTNd1w
An aspirational future shouldn't be just a better version of the present.
The successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science. Kuhn, Thomas
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Reactionary Ideas (Whack-a-Mole) – There is a popular arcade game where players are given a big rubber mallet, which they use to smack little gophers that randomly poke their head up. It’s a game that rewards quick reflexes. See a gopher, whack it with the mallet.
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Ultimately, lots and lots of action doesn’t translate into strategic change. Instead, the game of smacking the gophers continues, producing a never-ending stream of small disconnected innovations that only deliver short term impact, if they can scale at all.
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Reactionary Ideas (Whack-a-Mole) – There is a popular arcade game where players are given a big rubber mallet, which they use to smack little gophers that randomly poke their head up. It’s a game that rewards quick reflexes. See a gopher, whack it with the mallet.
We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem, than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem. Ackoff, Russell
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