Adaptive Change. Faster.

10x more adaptive—without breaking what works.

Becoming more adaptive should advance management priorities, not disrupt them.

Energized employees exploring innovative ideas

No risk or disruption to operations

Unlocking collective intelligence keeps managers in charge without missing out on innovative ideas.

Image showing how top-down management leaves a vast unexplored opportunity space outside management focus in the larger opportunity space aligned with mission.

Image showing how collective intelligence enables decentralized exploration of the vast unexplored opportunity space outside management focus within the larger opportunity space aligned with mission.

The challenge: Collective intelligence requires energized, innovative employees across the entire team.

Graph showing % of energized, innovative employees across 5 groups in mature companies: (1) Regular employees, (2) Middle managers, (3) Senior executives, (4) Regular teams, and (5) Innovative teams. Only senior executives and innovative teams are mostly energized, innovative employees. The other 3 groups lag far behind because they lack: (1) Freedom to innovate, and (2) Exciting problems.

Image showing two sides of the same coin. One side = Energized, innovative employees. The other side = Freedom to innovate + exciting problems.

Our Solution

Unofficial Skunkworks Projects

Unofficial skunkworks projects unlock a team’s collective intelligence.

Official work: Managers continue to lead their teams exactly as before. Nothing changes.
Unofficial skunkworks projects: Employees are free to take on experimental projects not yet ready to be officially sanctioned.

Table showing the required resources and operating model for unofficial skunkworks projects. Required resources = Full time catalyst + $0 Project funding + 0% Project time. Operating Model = No change to management model + No risk or disruption to operations + Opt-in model.

This collective intelligence comes entirely from higher productivity, with zero disruption to management priorities.

Graph showing unrealized potential of regular teams vs innovative teams. Regular teams significantly lag in (1) Energized, innovative employees, (2) Productivity per hour, and (3) Collective intelligence.

Graphic showing positive feedback loop: Collective Intelligence ⇒ Energized Employees ⇒ Higher Productivity. Feedback loop is driven by Freedom to Innovate + Exciting Problems.

Our Services

Our skunkworks program unlocks a team’s collective intelligence.

Explore Terrain

We provide the services to explore the skunkworks program, and how it will help your company.

Launch Campaign

We provide the catalyst to launch the skunkworks program. 90 days to collective intelligence.

How It Works

Executive

Announces skunkworks program

Catalyst

Provides dedicated support to employees

Managers

Sponsor projects they like, ignore the rest