Moonshot Transformation

Course overview

In this course, we will study and learn together, interacting with three top moonshot leaders and professors, how successful disruptive companies, and start-ups of New Era, such as Google, Amazon, Tesla, Hyperloop… but also incumbents like Pfizer, or GLOBIS, think and act to achieve game-changing transformations.

These companies do not want to be the best; they want to be different. While the rest of the world is trying to grow by 10%, they strive for 10X. Leaders of these companies think big and lead their companies to Moonshot Transformations.

The term “Moonshot” came from when human beings dreamt of the seemingly impossible task of reaching the moon. Even though the technology was not yet ready, Moonshot thinkers believed it would be possible soon and prepared themselves for the disruptive milestone.

When you find yourself working to make things 10% better -instead of 10X, you inevitably impose a limit on your creativity and possibility. Focusing on the current context and your existing tools will only lead to creating an existing solution, not different. Companies that make things 10% better fall into a Red Ocean of intensive competition and suffer from disruptions.
Huge problems and opportunities need radical solutions. This course will teach students the mindset, leadership, organization, tool, technologies, and strategies required to achieve Moonshot Transformations.

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.” －John F. Kennedy (September 12, 1962) －quoted by Jeff Bezos several times.

This course is intended for all students who aspire to acquire the entrepreneurial mindset and skills to be capable of leading and managing new business models in the times of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). It is ideal for students who have an interest in understanding and finding exponential opportunities on the convergence of emerging sciences and technologies that are changing our lives: AI, IoT, Cloud Computing, Robotics, Energy, Biotech, Neuroscience, Medicine, and Nanotech. And as Moonshot Thinkers, leaders, and organizations harness it for massive transformation purposes.