Three Horizons as a framework for Transformative Innovation

Three Horizons as a framework for Transformative Innovation

Thinking About The Future Complexity Agency Roadmaps Plans Adaptive Pathways Scenarios Forecasts Uncertainty

Three Horizons Making sense of the landscape of change through three perspectives on the future potential of the present moment Pattern Time

First Horizon: Sustaining Innovation The managerial perspective, keeping things going Pattern H 1 Today’s Dominant Pattern: a system losing strategic fit and therefore dominance over time Time

Third Horizon: Transformative Innovation The visionary perspective, aspiring to a better way Pattern The Future Pattern: a system in tune with deeper trends that eventually emerges as the new dominant system—perhaps a generation from now H 3 Time

Second Horizon: Disruptive Innovation The entrepreneurial perspective, eager to try new things disruptive innovation – Pattern H 2 sustaining ? transformative + Zone of Transition: a system seeking to exploit the opportunities emerging in a changing world Time

Three Horizons: Bringing it Together A transformative innovation system that contains three ways of acting in and seeing the world. Pattern H 1 Manager H 2 Entrepreneur H 3 Visionary Time

Three Horizons Voices and Relationships Shifting from negative mindsets to positive perspectives enables people to work across horizons and facilitate the conditions for transformative change. Negative Mindsets Ri H 1 sk y Ob str uc Ide as Hope To o Irrelevant H 1 Positive Perspectives tiv e Su pp ort H 3 ra p Im l ca i t c H 2 se mp o C i rom on ati r i p Ins Scale Dinosaur H 2 H 3 y All

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