What Next for Rowing? Exploring the Discontinuous Side of Change
What Next for Rowing? Exploring the Discontinuous Side of Change
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What Next for Rowing?
Exploring the
Discontinuous Side of
Change
Ian McCarthy
2021 RCA Conference
31st January 2021
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What is change?
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 Technology
 Coaching and education
 Safety
 Members
 Events
 Rules
 Governance
What changes?
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Doggett's Coat and Badge Race in 1715
Quidi Vidi Lake Regatta 2017
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 Continuous change
 better and bigger maybe, but more of the same for
the same people.
 going in the same direction.
 Discontinuous change
 doing different things for the same people, or the
same things for different people.
 going in a different direction
Direction of change
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Continuous change
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Henley Regatta 2017
Henley Regatta 1968
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Continuous and discontinuous change
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Smartoar (2020)
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Discontinuous change
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Discontinuous change
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Discontinuous change
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Lamborghini 1948
Lamborghini 1963
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Continuous and discontinuous change
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Discontinuous change can deliver
enormous value and benefits, but
it is difficultto produce.
Why?
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It is disruptive – to you!
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It is often viewed as inferior
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Perceived to go against heritage and tradition
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Can require being ‘open’ to learning from outside your
domain
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Can require being ‘open’ to weird ideas
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Can require being ‘open’ tolearning from users
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Can require being ‘open’ tolearning from users
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Can require being ‘open’ to learning from the
community
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Can require a different business model
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Ambidexterity
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Exploitation and continuous
change
Exploration and discontinuous
change
Adhere to the rules, follow the crowd
and conform.
Change the rules, lead the crowd and
rebel.
Focus on serving existing members
and their existing needs.
Serve new members and new needs.
Manage and refine existing
competences.
Develop and lead new competences.
Optimize the organization for existing
rules.
Develop new organization system with
new rules.
Red ocean thinking Blue ocean thinking
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 Going in a different direction typically involves.
 Disrupting what you are proud of and going against
tradition and heritage.
 Being open to learning from outside your domain and
from users.
 Seeing value in things that seem weird or inferior.
 Recognising that existing members (at first) will not
value the discontinuous change.
 Being ambidextrous.
Summary
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What Next for Rowing? Exploring the Discontinuous Side of Change

Editor's Notes

  • #6: 2017: The shores of Quidi Vidi Lake are packed with vendors and spectators for the races on Regatta Day. (Jef Combdon
  • #11: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company as a mining venture in Two Harbors, Minnesota, in June 13, 1902. The goal was to mine corundum, but this failed because the mine's mineral holdings were anorthosite, which had no commercial value.[11] Co-founder John Dwan solicited funds in exchange for stock and Edgar Ober and Lucius Ordway took over the company in 1905.[11] The company moved to Duluth and began researching and producing sandpaper products.[11] William L. McKnight, later a key executive, joined the company in 1907, and A. G. Bush joined in 1909. Today 3M produces approximately 60,000 products across four business groups focused on safety and industrial, transportation and electronics, health care, and consumer products
  • #12: Lamborghini Trattori is an Italian tractor manufacturer. It was founded in 1948 in Cento by Ferruccio Lamborghini, who later went on to establish Lamborghini Automobili in 1963.
  • #18: Hövding registers the cyclist’s movements 200 times/sec. In the event of an accident the airbag inside the collar inflates in 0.1 sec. This will efficiently fixate the neck and protect the head from injury.
  • #20: In the mid-1960s, Newman Darby conceived the "Darby Sailboard": a hand-held square rigged "kite" sail on a floating platform for recreational use. Darby did not patent his design or any of his subsequent models attached to surfboards, and the Californians Jim Drake (a sailor) and Hoyle Schweitzer (a surfer) took out the first patent on Drake's Windsurfer design in 1968. The universal sail system with pivotal mast was already in public use from Darby's invention at that time.
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  • #24: Red oceans are all the industries in existence today – the known market space, where industry boundaries are defined and companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of the existing market. Cutthroat competition turns the ocean bloody red. Hence, the term ‘red’ oceans. Blue oceans denote all the industries not in existence today – the unknown market space, unexplored and untainted by competition. Like the ‘blue’ ocean, it is vast, deep and powerful –in terms of opportunity and profitable growth