Congratulations! You have now completed an ExO Sprint!

In addition to creating an organization—or set of organizations—primed to become exponential, your team has gone through a personal transformation process. As a result, they have:

• Learned new methods of working together across organizational boundaries.
• Acted as entrepreneurs.
• Experienced the productivity that real-time virtual collaboration and communication offers.
• Become “comfortable being uncomfortable” in presenting ideas to the leadership team in a far less polished form than they have likely been accustomed to (the leadership team has also experienced the value of this format.
• Been “forced” into a lean mindset by the pace and intensity of the weekly assignments.
• Seen the value of the fast iteration of ideas based on early feedback.
• Witnessed the disruption process in action.
• Come to understand that learning lies in “failure.”
• Gained experience across a range of business innovation models and practices—including the ExO model—which they can now carry into their daily work.

All participants in the ExO Sprint should now possess an exponential mindset that will ensure the innovation process continues to move forward throughout the organization.

The fact that your team ideated and developed the ExO initiatives helps maintain the company's DNA, since all were created by employees with shared DNA (organizationally, at least). This makes all resulting ExO initiatives compatible with your team and organization.

Depending on the goal you set at the beginning, you will have one of the following outcomes:

If you are a leading organization aiming to both reinvent an industry and transform your organization for an external industry disruption, the outcome of the ExO Sprint has been a set of ExO Edge Initiatives and a set of ExO Core Initiatives. While the ExO Edge Initiatives should result in next-generation organizations structured to lead your industry (and perhaps even others), the ExO Core Initiatives will help your organization adapt to external industry disruption—including the disruption posed by the new ExO Edge Initiatives.

If you are an established organization wanting to adapt to external industry disruption, the outcome of the ExO Sprint has been a set of ExO Core Initiatives. By successfully implementing these ExO Core Initiatives, your organization has the ability to remain relevant in a rapidly changing world for many years to come.

If you are an entrepreneur or company builder wanting to develop one or more Exponential Organizations in order to transform a specific industry, the outcome of the ExO Sprint has been one or more ExO Edge Initiatives. Developing these ExO Edge Initiatives offers the opportunity to both accomplish your goals and become the Next Big Thing in your industry.

The circle diagram provides a template that can be used to position a resulting set of ExO initiatives to summarize the ExO Sprint outcome.

If you ran the entire ExO Sprint, the outcome is more than a set of independent ExO initiatives. It represents a new ecosystem in which your organization has adapted not only to industry disruption but also to the ExO Edge Initiatives created.

If you ran the ExO Core Stream, the outcome is an organization adapted to external industry disruption-one that is ready to connect to other ecosystems that may be created within your industry.

If you ran the ExO Edge Stream, the outcome is one or more organizations primed to lead the industry.

As you can see, the ExO Sprint outcome represents not only the transformation of an existing organization, but one that may also contribute to the transformation of an entire industry!

The next section offers practical advice for further developing your ExO initiatives and taking them to the next level.

YOUR EXO SPRINT OUTCOME

Draw the outcome of your own ExO Sprint

EXPONENTIAL TRANSFORMATION!

Running an ExO Sprint provides exponential results by transforming your organization so that it is able to keep up with external industry disruption and leverage exponential technologies.

But you can go even further! Here are some things you can do to both create an Exponential Organization and exponentially transform it for global impact.

Apply technology:

The only way to scale something is by applying technology to access and manage abundance.

OpenExO is a global transformation ecosystem that provides online access to an abundance of certified ExO staff on demand (ExO Coaches, ExO Advisors, etc.) and other key resources for running an ExO Sprint and other ExO services. The OpenExO platform also enables and encourages ongoing feedback among participants, including the organization's leaders and middle management.

Repeat!

Whether or not you ran your ExO Sprint with external help (the support of ExO Coaches and other ExO-related roles), having completed this first one, you are now in an excellent position to run further ExO Sprints on your own.

All ExO Sprint participants now have solid experience with the ExO model and other related innovation methodologies (Customer Development, Design Thinking, Lean Startup). You also have a team of people with the necessary knowledge and mindset to run or facilitate future ExO Sprints. It's still a good idea to call on external ExO Coaches as needed, but chances are you'll require much less of their time.

Companies periodically run ExO Sprints not only to define new initiatives, but also to encourage evolution, update skill sets, and deepen employee knowledge of the company's culture and commitment to evolve.

Having incorporated the ExO process within their DNA, your own team is best equipped to manage and lead future ExO Sprints.

Schedule your next ExO Sprint now!