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Strategic Innovation
The Goal
Move from incremental optimization to step-change innovation by surfacing, testing, and committing to strategic options.
Ideal For
Leadership teams running annual strategy resets, post-disruption recovery, and new-market entry where incremental moves no longer compound competitive advantage.
The Shift
From optimizing the current frame to designing the next frame.
The Neuroscience
The brain's default is to optimize within existing frames — fast, efficient, conservative thinking. Strategic innovation requires deliberately inhibiting that default: externalizing the current frame and forcing consideration of frame-shifting moves reduces confirmation bias and creates the conditions insight research associates with breakthrough moments.
From the research
The thinking behind this lab, published in full: