Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail spent the last seven years building Singularity University as its founding executive director and current global ambassador. He is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and travels extensively lecturing on how organizations can leverage ongoing technology disruptions to grow 10x faster than their peers. Singularity University has empowered people from more than 85 countries to apply disruptive technologies - biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience - to more than 100 startups and countless patents and ideas. Prior to Singularity, Salim was a vice president at Yahoo, where he built and ran Brickhouse, the company's internal incubator. His last company, Angstroe, a news aggregation startup, was sold to Google in 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies. Francisco Palao is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator with deep experience helping corporations transform. After receiving his PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Francisco launched several disruptive startups the led him to understand the importance of applying the right innovation methodologies together with cutting-edge technologies. He designed the ExO Sprint methodology and has been dedicated to its continual improvement and accessibility. Michelle Lapierre has made a career of supporting business leadership and senior management in responding to change. As a consultant and business advisor, she has facilitated full-scale transformation in the public and private sectors through leadership, coaching, and implementation support. Her work today empowers organizations to decode industry disruption using the ExO Sprint model.

In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company-the Exponential Organization-that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger, leveraging assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks ten times better than its peers. Three luminaries of the business world-Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, and Mike Malone-have researched this phenomenon and documented ten characteristics of Exponential Organizations. Here, in EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS, they walk the reader through how any company, from a startup to a multi-national, can become an ExO, streamline its performance, and grow to the next leve