The Visionary Lab
Everything goes, nothing is required. Until the money runs out.
An experimental culture where innovation, autonomy and speed take centre stage. Hierarchy is minimal. Mistakes are expected and accepted.
What is the Visionary Lab?
The Visionary Lab is the culture of the innovator. Here people experiment, test, fail and start again. Rules are suggestions. Hierarchy is a dirty word. Everyone can try anything. In a tech startup this is the natural state. But on a construction site or in a factory this is dangerous. If everyone picks their own method, you get chaos instead of innovation. In the transport sector this means drivers plan their own routes without coordination. The Visionary Lab works fantastically when launching a new product. It works disastrously when you need reliability. The energy is high, the direction is unclear, and budgets are regularly exceeded because every new idea gets priority.
Where do you recognise this?
Startups in manufacturing testing new production methods
R&D departments of larger industrial companies
Renovation companies experimenting with sustainable building materials
Young installation companies working with new technology
Do you recognise this?
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Strengths
Rapid adoption of new technology and methods
High creativity and problem solving ability
Blind spots
Projects are started but not finished
Lack of structure makes scaling impossible
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