Kris Østergaard

Kris is a researcher, author and globally sought after keynote speaker on innovation, corporate culture and the impact of technological change. He is co-founder and Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, the Nordic entity of Silicon Valley based educational institution, Singularity University.

Besides being the author of Transforming Legacy Organizations, Kris also co-authored The Fundamental 4s - Designing Extraordinary Customer Experiences in an Exponential World. He has co-founded the experience design firm DARE2, accelerator program Thinkubator and co-working space DARE2mansion. Kris is also a board member, angel investor and advisor to both startups and Fortune 500s.

About Transforming Legacy Organizations

Innovation is one of the things that larger, established organizations, also known as legacy organizations, talk the most about and have the hardest time succeeding with. Transforming Legacy Organizations helps organizations understand how to become the innovation champions of the future. In the book, you will learn:

How innovation in established organizations is completely different from innovation in startups
How the individual, organizational and societal immune systems inhibit organizational innovation power
Why established organizations must innovate in three tracks simultaneously
How industry convergence amplifies potential for developing organizations
How to create cultural hacks to develop innovative organizational cultures

What Others are Saying

"Innovation is not just for the young and digital. As Kris Østergaard makes clear, legacy
organizations must also innovate to create economic value now and into the future.
Don't let the size of this book fool you, for it provides a road map any company can follow
to overcome the immune systems that stifle change and innovation. Follow this path in
transforming your legacy organization to snatch victory from the jaws of disruption."

- B. Joseph Pine II
Bestselling co-author of The Experience Economy

"While innovation is increasingly important, the term innovation has been so overused
that practitioners are left feeling confused and unsure what to do next... Transforming
Legacy Organizations is the antidote from this innovation abstraction. This book is
practical, helpful, and accessible. I highly recommend it."

- Kyle Nel
Bestselling author of Leading Transformation
Former Executive Director for Lowe’s Innovation Labs

"Transforming Legacy Organizations is a great manual for any company looking to
transform itself in the face of accelerating technology and fierce competition. Both a
fun read and incredibly informative. A welcome addition to the innovation canon!"

- Steven Kotler
NY Times bestselling author of Bold, Abundance and The Rise of Superman

"Kris Oestergaard does an amazing job highlighting and defining the key issues
preventing established companies to transform: the individual immune system, the
societal immune system and the organizational immune system. His book is a must
read if you are hoping to be the disruptor and not the disrupted in this age of unicorns."

- Salim Ismail
Bestselling author of Exponential Organizations

"After 10 years of helping companies disrupt themselves, we are also finding how
hard it is to do it ourselves at Singularity University. Transforming Legacy Organizations
outlines many of the barriers we created in our journey to get here and how to break
through them in order to continue to be at the leading edge of exponential change and
technological disruption."

- Rob Nail
CEO & Associate Founder of Singularity University

"Innovation is not just for the young and
digital. As Kris Østergaard makes clear,
legacy organizations must also innovate
to create economic value now and into
the future. Don't let the size of this book
fool you, for it provides a road map any
company can follow to overcome the
immune systems that stifle change and
innovation. Follow this path in
transforming your legacy organization to
snatch victory from the jaws of
disruption."

- B. Joseph Pine II
Bestselling co-author of
The Experience Economy

"While innovation is increasingly
important, the term innovation has been
so overused that practitioners are left
feeling confused and unsure what to do
next... Transforming Legacy
Organizations is the antidote from this
innovation abstraction. This book is
practical, helpful, and accessible. I highly
recommend it."

- Kyle Nel
Bestselling author of
Leading Transformation
Former Executive Director for
Lowe’s Innovation Labs

"Transforming Legacy Organizations is a
great manual for any company looking to
transform itself in the face of accelerating
technology and fierce competition. Both a
fun read and incredibly informative. A
welcome addition to the innovation
canon!"

- Steven Kotler
NY Times bestselling author of
Bold, Abundance and The Rise of Superman

"Kris Oestergaard does an amazing job
highlighting and defining the key issues
preventing established companies to
transform: the individual immune system,
the societal immune system and the
organizational immune system. His book
is a must read if you are hoping to be the
disruptor and not the disrupted in this
age of unicorns."

- Salim Ismail
Bestselling author of Exponential Organizations

"After 10 years of helping companies
disrupt themselves, we are also finding
how hard it is to do it ourselves at
Singularity University. Transforming
Legacy Organizations outlines many of
the barriers we created in our journey to
get here and how to break through them
in order to continue to be at the leading
edge of exponential change and
technological disruption."

- Rob Nail
CEO & Associate Founder
of Singularity University

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News

How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations Than in Startups

Article in Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog, July 25, 2019

Culture hacking: 5 examples you can borrow

Article in The Enterprisers Project, July 12, 2019

Book Review: Transforming Legacy Organizations

Article in US Daily Review, June 7, 2019

To Win The Future, Legacy Organizations Must Innovate In 3 New And Different Ways

Article in CEOWORLD magazine, May 28, 2019

How Big Companies Can Simultaneously Run and Reinvent Their Businesses

Article in SingularityHub, May 27, 2019