BlackBerry saw the iPhone clearly and read every flaw correctly. Being right is what undid them. Every organization runs a Default Script, a definition of success it stopped questioning. Breaking it takes imagination.
When a leadership team keeps landing on the same two options, the problem isn't the strategy. It's what the room can no longer see — and why the brain makes that invisible by design.
The InnoCentive data should change how every leader thinks about who belongs in the room. Roughly a third of problems that defeated experienced corporate scientists were solved by outsiders — and the further from the field, the more likely the solve.
AI is consolidating the work senior leaders have excelled at for decades. What remains is the harder work of picturing what isn't there yet and deciding what deserves to exist.
You built the life you planned, and you can't remember when it last felt like yours. The Default Script is the definition of success you inherited before you had the language to question it.