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Your Guide to the Future
We transform how leaders think about the future and guide them in building new capabilities to get there successfully. Our enterprise solutions enable organizations to better understand and anticipate the potential impact of exponential technologies and trends, and to take action.
Through our strategy, leadership, and innovation models and tools—and with guidance from our global network of experts—we help organizations reinvent themselves to better navigate the uncertain future ahead.
Our enterprise portfolio helps leaders reimagine and build the 10x future of their organization.
“On average, an S&P 500 company is being replaced every 2 weeks.”
— Grayline Group, April 2017
“Only 20% of Chief Strategy Officers believe their companies are highly prepared for sudden industry disruption.”
— Accenture, 2016
“Nearly 140 private companies working to advance artificial intelligence technologies have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 acquisitions taking place in 2016 alone.”
— CBInsights, July 2017
Our Approach
Singularity University’s enterprise portfolio offers customizable solutions that provide organizations with the tools they need to define a new future vision and road map, prepare future-ready leaders, rapidly experiment and build new future businesses, and mobilize their ecosystem to champion the new narrative.
10x Strategy Development
Explore, envision, and unlock the future of your organization. The 10x Strategy Development solution empowers organizations to re-envision their future by anticipating, embracing, and capitalizing on exponential technologies and trends.
Future Vision: Get an overview of technologies and trends designed to reframe thinking and broaden possibilities for your organization’s future.
Future Forecast: Formulate a future-focused opportunity map for the next one, five, 10, and 20+ years. Analyze opportunities, threats, and implications to your business and society at large.
Future Narrative: Develop a compelling story, graphic novel, or other tangible artifact that brings the organization’s vision to life, and a plan for socialization and mobilization.
93% of CSOs said new technologies will rapidly change their company’s industry.
—Accenture, Thriving on Disruption Innovation, 2016
In a world where technologies are breeding, being a traditional leader is no longer enough—exponential leadership skills will soon define successful CEOs.
—Vanessa Gavan, Managing Director, Maximus, in CEO Magazine, 2016
10x Leadership Training
Develop future-ready leaders by equipping them with the new skills, tools, and mental models required to champion and lead transformation initiatives and help the organization leap into the future. This solution disseminates exponential concepts throughout the organization through in-person experiential training, online cohort-based courses, projects, and coaching.
Future Leaders Series
Start by establishing a baseline understanding of individual and organizational leadership capabilities. Then explore emerging technologies and trends, and their impact on the role of the exponential leader. Finally, engage in applied learning by executing a 10x project for your organization with the support of SU coaches.
Exponential Foundations Series (Digital)
Develop an organization-wide understanding of exponential technologies, trends, and their potential impact on the organization and industry. Apply learnings to real-world problems, and gain access to SU’s network of peers and experts.
10x Innovation Sprint
Gain deep market and technology insights, rapidly prototype future-focused ideas, and develop go-to-market strategies for leaping ahead in the market. We enable organizations to ideate, prototype, validate, and launch potentially breakthrough solutions that leverage exponential technologies to ensure 10x scale and impact.
Problem Sprint: Define the problem, discover opportunities, research and monitor customer needs, and explore potential technology partners, startups, and disruptors from around the world.
Solutions Sprint: Develop 5–10 ideas within the identified opportunity area through a focused disruption or sci-fi workshop and idea-refinement exercise.
Prototype Sprint: Build, test, validate, and evolve ideas through rapid prototyping and user-testing methodologies.
Go-to-Market Sprint: Plan paths to market, channel development, spin-in/spin-out and org structure strategy, and establish a mobilization plan to excite stakeholders about the launch.
You need a continuous process of changing [an] idea. The final product will look nothing like what you started with.
—Luis Perez-Breva, Director of the Innovation Teams Program at MIT in Innovation Leader, 2017
With DASH, I was able to see the technologies that are likely to impact our business much earlier, and develop a plan for turning those insights into opportunities before they became disruptors.
—Strategy Leader, Global CPG Firm
DASH
Mission control for your transformation journey. Designed by seasoned innovators, strategists, and futurists, DASH leverages predictive analytics to help you forecast and respond proactively to exponential trends and technologies, and advance your leadership and innovation capabilities through diagnostics, customized content, and on-demand learning.
Innovation Projects: Track individual innovation projects at each phase of development. Predict portfolio values and revenues. Track project velocity.
Internal Capabilities: Evaluate leadership and innovation readiness, and identify areas for improvement leading to better training and skill set alignments.
Opportunity Radar: View and track relevant trends, technologies, and market activity to inform how and when to take action.
Technology Forecast: View and track future scenarios and the timing and trajectory of adjacent technologies to make smarter investment decisions.
Innovation Partnership Program
An exclusive community of executives pioneering the future together.
IPP provides a collaborative, category-exclusive, high-touch experience for senior executives to reframe the boundaries of what’s possible through curated summits, workshops, and site visits alongside industry-leading experts, futurists, SU faculty, and portfolio companies. Participants learn from each other’s experiences and identify collaboration and partnership opportunities. The program is a 3-year membership commitment and is offered at multiple levels.
The most audacious innovations simply cannot be created by single companies or by industries operating alone.
—”Wicked-Problem Solvers,”
Harvard Business Review, June 2016
“The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.”
Selected Customer Stories
Valuable Resources
Videos
- Building an Exponential Enterprise
- Bayer: Digital Innovation in Action
- Designing the Future of Home with SciFi Design Intelligence
- Clients React to SU’s Executive Program
- Discover Why Our Founders Created SU
- A Closer Look at SU’s Mission
- Airbus at SU: An In-Depth Look at Ideation in Action
- An Inside Look at Citi’s Experience at SU
- Quick Intro to Exponentials
- SU CEO Rob Nail on Using Science Fiction for Ideation