Reproducing Success

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Trusting technology is a book about bringing your vision to life. About using technology as a platform for your ideas. Do that once and you get a hit. Reproduce your success and you’re really on to something.

A reminder of my favourite path for bringing your vision to life:

Step 1: Pull out the list of opportunities that you’ve identified for your business.

Step 2: Consider ANY companies you admire—competitive or not. What have they done that could translate to breakthroughs for your customers, your industry—and you? Add to your list.

Step 3: Scrupulously assess the list you now have—after carefully selecting your criteria.

Step 4: Cue your team up for success by building an action plan with the greatest chance of early wins. Get to first base, maybe hit a double. Don’t rely on any home runs.

Step 5: Reproduce success by recreating the patterns that won those early wins.

In the final installment of this short series, we’re going to focus on step 5—reproduction.

By this point, you’ve mastered the generation of fruitful opportunities from within your organization and the massive library of inspiration that lies beyond. You’ve settled on a creative definition of success that doesn’t stop at pure financial metrics. And you’ve developed the plan for your team to thrive on small wins.

That’s an accomplishment—you should be proud of your team. If you want them to be serial winners—champions in your field, you gotta keep it up.

The secret of success is no secret—everybody know that it takes persistence. Finding the things that work, repeating them remorselessly, and changing up your approach as you learn through failure and success.

You’re in the business of spotting patterns—recognizing the causes of success and building those activities into your business machine. Part II of Trusting Technology—One Cannot Live by Tech Alone—provides a ton of successful patterns for you to build on. Your team can pick and choose the ones that make sense for them to begin with, then change things up to suit your circumstance.

Create your own recipe for success

 Try these three steps:

  1. 1)  Have your team understand the practices for serial success.

  2. 2) Ask them to adopt the ones that offer quick wins.

  3. 3) Consider how to improve performance by changing—or adding more—practices.

And #4—be sure to let me know how it goes. 

#5—if you're keen to start asap, consider a Digital Vision Day.

Trusting Technology is a book about forming ideas, exploring opportunities with customers and colleagues, and building your future together. Order your copy here.