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How Organizations Can Experience Their Future — From Higher-Level Purpose to the Key Scene

Organizations seldom lack strategic ideas. Instead, they struggle to translate ideas into shared action. Between strategic declarations and everyday behavior lies what many scholars have called the execution gap: strategies are communicated, but not embodied; cultural aspirations are articulated, but not performed; innovation ambitions exist, but do not shape practice.

The Universal Problem

Let me start with a simple observation. Every organization — from big corporations to small vocational teams — has brilliant ideas. Innovation isn’t the problem. Strategy isn’t the problem.

The real problem is… translation. The moment where a great idea is supposed to become real. Where people should behave differently, work differently, think differently. And that moment — very often — simply doesn’t happen. We call this the execution gap. It’s the quiet place where transformation goes to die.

But what if the execution gap isn’t a problem of knowledge or communication? What if it’s a problem of experience?

The Promise of a New Approach

A few years ago, we started asking ourselves a different question: Why do some ideas become lived reality — while others remain PowerPoint slides? What we discovered became the foundation of the model I’d like to share with you. A model that brings strategy and innovation back into the bodies, emotions, and shared actions of the people who must carry it.

The journey goes from the actual product to the Higher-Level Purpose — the cognitive North Star —to what we call the Key Scene — a staged moment of the future, that allows to feel a future state in the present.

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