Overview
Your next innovative breakthrough is already working--somewhere else
Modern tech and AI feels like a tsunami. The tools that made you successful are aging and the professions built around them are changing. Yet inside many organizations, good ideas wait on slow approvals, successful pilot tests aren’t rolled out, and yesterday’s systems eat tomorrow’s tech investments. Working harder inside the same machinery only gets involves a lot of pain.
The great news is, the world does not have a shortage of ideas. Breakthrough technologies already exist. In Adapt and Adopt, Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of the Navy Justin Fanelli shows leaders how to turn existing technology into a leapfrogging advantage. Drawing on lessons from startups, industry, DARPA, and government, he explains how to accomplish far more than your organization thinks is possible, by using what the world has already built.
For example, the US Navy went from discovery to deployment of an open-ocean communications solution in just three months--by adapting networking tech built for gaming and mobile use. To help organizations struggling convert potential into results, Adapt and Adopt explains six “simple machines” for innovation adoption:
- Turn the world into your solutions funnel.
- Give teams a scoreboard that shows when their work is moving the needle.
- Test in the real world, learn quickly, and plan for rollout before the pilot ends.
- Open problems to anyone who can solve them, including those outside your usual circles.
- Stop funding what no longer earns its cost--so you can afford what comes next.
- Let lessons from the people doing the work shape the next decision.
Whether you lead a business, a public institution, or a team with more demands than resources, Adapt and Adopt gives you a way to accomplish the goals you care most deeply about. Even the seemingly impossible ones. You can start with the problem in front of you, without waiting for the next budget, reorganization, or technological breakthrough. Accelerating change stops being the thing that swallows you--and becomes a wave you can ride.
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