Leap into the Future
This YAML structured data reflects the collective brainstorming from the changeXchange event. For the finished paper see Leap into the Future
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leapfrog_system:
description: >
Integrated system capturing barriers, enabling conditions, and lived HOW enablers
for organisational leapfrogging. Includes original participant submissions for
richness, pattern recognition, and deeper sense-making.
categories:
- id: B
name: "Barriers to Leapfrogging"
source_slides: "2–4"
- id: C
name: "Conditions for Designing from the Future"
source_slides: "10–12"
- id: H
name: "HOW Enablers – Lived Experience"
source_slides: "19–21"
themes:
# =====================================================
# BARRIERS (Slides 2–4)
# =====================================================
- id: B1
category: B
name: "Psychological fear and loss aversion"
submissions:
- "Believing that AI will take all our jobs"
- "Fear of change"
- "Fear of failure"
- "Fear of using new technologies"
- "Do I still have the energy for it?"
- "Change is scary"
causes:
- theme: B4
strength: strong
- theme: B2
strength: strong
- theme: B8
strength: strong
blocks:
- theme: C1
strength: strong
- id: B2
category: B
name: "Cognitive bias and attachment to the past"
submissions:
- "Time invested in what we already have. IKEA Bias"
- "Old ways that got us where we are"
- "History matters. We grieve the loss of what we have"
- "Building on current data and lessons learned"
- "Business case based on previous projects / programs"
- "Following established design principles"
- "Looking / copying the competition"
- "Thinking in current constraints"
causes:
- theme: B3
strength: moderate
- theme: B5
strength: moderate
blocks:
- theme: C5
strength: moderate
- id: B3
category: B
name: "Capacity depletion and present-day overload"
submissions:
- "Too many fires to put out in the present"
- "No clear priorities or too many competing priorities in the present"
- "Capacity, too busy trying to survive right now"
- "Time invested in what we already have"
causes:
- theme: B4
strength: strong
blocks:
- theme: C3
strength: strong
- id: B4
category: B
name: "Low agency, confidence, and capability belief"
submissions:
- "Our own ideas about how much we can achieve"
- "Do I have the full scope of required skills"
- "Ability to bring AI skills into my work"
- "How to use AI to leapfrog"
- "Unwillingness to take risks"
causes:
- theme: B5
strength: moderate
blocks:
- theme: C2
strength: strong
- id: B5
category: B
name: "Complacency driven by absence of crisis"
submissions:
- "Competitors are comfortable and complacent, low levels of threat"
- "It's easier to continue with the devil we know rather than change"
- "Not enough of an incentive of crisis to want to change"
- "It feels too risky and we don’t like, or reward risk, or need it (crisis)"
causes:
- theme: B6
strength: moderate
blocks:
- theme: C5
strength: moderate
- id: B6
category: B
name: "Risk denial and optimism bias"
submissions:
- "Head in the sand. Like an emu. Too focused on the near term, do not want to know"
- "We believe it won’t happen to us. Blockbuster / Netflix"
- "Just because the threat hasn’t happened, does not mean it won’t"
causes:
- theme: B7
strength: moderate
- id: B7
category: B
name: "Structural inertia and legacy constraints"
submissions:
- "Building on existing infrastructure"
- "Messy systems and processes"
- "Funding"
- "Shareholders / board are risk-averse"
- "Not feeling the need to leapfrog (enough resources)"
causes:
- theme: B8
strength: moderate
blocks:
- theme: C3
strength: moderate
- id: B8
category: B
name: "Cultural norms that suppress challenge"
submissions:
- "I don’t want to rock the boat mentality"
- "Staying in your lane"
- "Honouring my elders mentality"
- "Status and hierarchy"
- "The accepted status quo"
- "No challenge of the current processes"
causes:
- theme: B4
strength: strong
blocks:
- theme: C1
strength: strong
- id: B9
category: B
name: "Distance from customer and lived experience"
submissions:
- "Not understanding the customer entirely"
- "Not understanding the customer journey"
- "Client acquisition – how is it best accomplished"
causes:
- theme: B5
strength: weak
blocks:
- theme: C7
strength: strong
# =====================================================
# CONDITIONS (Slides 10–12)
# =====================================================
- id: C1
category: C
name: "Psychological safety and permission to experiment"
submissions:
- "Safety to fail"
- "Psychological safety to propose something new without risk of judgement"
- "Open conversations to learn from mistakes"
- "Comfort with failure and curiosity"
- "Make it ok to challenge"
- "Safety to take risks and try something new"
enables:
- theme: C2
strength: strong
- theme: C4
strength: strong
- theme: C6
strength: strong
- theme: H1
strength: strong
- id: C2
category: C
name: "Agency, self-belief, and empowered leadership"
submissions:
- "Self-belief"
- "Willingness to take risks"
- "Empowering leadership"
- "Leaders with a vision"
- "Leaders who role model"
enables:
- theme: C5
strength: moderate
- theme: H2
strength: strong
- id: C3
category: C
name: "Protected capacity, time, and resources"
submissions:
- "Time / resources ring fenced"
- "Financial resources"
- "Access to funding projects"
- "Prepared to make a sacrifice, accept lower performance and returns"
- "Pilot or venture approach"
enables:
- theme: H5
strength: strong
- theme: C4
strength: moderate
- id: C4
category: C
name: "Learning, curiosity, and experimentation"
submissions:
- "Access to learning resources"
- "Curiosity to explore, try, fail, try again differently"
- "After results review to guide"
- "Culture of experimentation"
enables:
- theme: C5
strength: moderate
- theme: H3
strength: moderate
- id: C5
category: C
name: "Future clarity and shared directional intent"
submissions:
- "Long term vision"
- "Clear goals and external radar"
- "Clarity about possible futures"
- "Guardrails – knowing what really matters"
enables:
- theme: H4
strength: moderate
- id: C6
category: C
name: "Trust, coherence, and healthy challenge"
submissions:
- "Foundation of trust"
- "Coherent leadership team"
- "Ability to deal with disagreement constructively"
- "Someone to hold the tension"
enables:
- theme: H6
strength: strong
- id: C7
category: C
name: "Customer intimacy and outside-in perspective"
submissions:
- "Customer understanding / intimacy"
- "Bringing in an outsider to challenge processes"
- "Look beyond the fences"
enables:
- theme: C5
strength: weak
- id: C8
category: C
name: "Breaking patterns, norms, and inherited constraints"
submissions:
- "Letting go of limiting beliefs like respecting tradition"
- "Make time to go crazy"
- "Explicitly break design rules"
- "Different environments signal different worlds"
enables:
- theme: H7
strength: strong
# =====================================================
# HOW ENABLERS (Slides 19–21)
# =====================================================
- id: H1
category: H
name: "Trust, psychological safety, and authenticity at work"
submissions:
- "Higher level of trust from leaders"
- "Being confident in bringing my whole self to work"
- "Being my most authentic self at work"
- "Asking leaders questions I’m afraid to ask and not get fired"
enables:
- theme: H2
strength: strong
- theme: H3
strength: strong
- id: H2
category: H
name: "Human-centred leadership and role modelling"
submissions:
- "A strong leader I like and want to be of service to"
- "A leader I look up to who helps me shine"
- "Role models who make moving to this future attractive"
enables:
- theme: H3
strength: strong
- theme: H4
strength: moderate
- id: H3
category: H
name: "Capability, confidence, and lived experience of success"
submissions:
- "Make it easy. Give the experience of success"
- "Experience the leapfrog"
- "Training budget to explore other interests"
- "Help people understand metacognition"
enables:
- theme: H4
strength: moderate
- id: H4
category: H
name: "Freedom within a frame"
submissions:
- "Freedom within a frame, less control more trust"
- "Remove some guardrails, add important ones"
- "A clear vision we buy into"
enables:
- theme: H7
strength: moderate
- id: H5
category: H
name: "Capacity, flexibility, and separation from BAU"
submissions:
- "Add capacity for flexibility"
- "Separate P&L thinking from ideas"
- "Set up a venture business"
enables:
- theme: H6
strength: moderate
- id: H6
category: H
name: "Collective intelligence, diversity, and idea collision"
submissions:
- "Listen to diversity of opinions and experience"
- "Regular brainstorming sessions – no wrong answers"
- "Make space for serendipitous encounters"
enables:
- theme: H7
strength: strong
- id: H7
category: H
name: "Play, creativity, and disruption"
submissions:
- "Make time to go crazy"
- "Get artists, biologists into the room"
- "Break the mould incentives"
enables:
- theme: H8
strength: moderate
- id: H8
category: H
name: "Emotional legitimacy and humanity in the process"
submissions:
- "Value emotions more in the process"
- "Lead with love and courage"
- "Ways to help humans look deeply at reality"
