Reading time: 4 minutes Exploring a Future World This is the first of a series of articles that will help you to explore an uncertain future world. We all need to explore a range of potential futures. This applies whether we are a large corporation or an individual. We all […]
What is a ‘High Reliability Organization’? In my last briefing, 10 Reasons Why You Should Think About Recession, I introduced the term ‘High Reliability Organization’. This of course raises a question ‘Just what exactly is a high reliability organization?’ That’s the question that I would like to quickly address here […]
Accentuate the Negative We’re often told to ‘accentuate the positive’, great advice, but there might be some downsides, especially in the uncertain and volatile world that we live in today. One very real downside is that just looking at the positive can stop us from seeing the totality of the real […]
This briefing is based on a presentation to the Alumni of the University of Westminster on November 9, 2010. You can view this presentation online here. OVERVIEW: SEEING THE REAL PICTURE If we look back over the last 24 tumultuous months, a period that threatened the end of the business […]
Download pdf version Overview: The world is changing rapidly, but many of the assumptions that we use to think about the future have not. In reality we are now confronted with a range of ‘unknowns’ that could fundamentally confront and over-turn these common and widely-held assumptions. This briefing suggests that […]
Strategy should always be on our minds, but with a busy agenda and an email inbox that’s bursting to overflowing it’s very easy to jump into the business planning process without too much thought – using the same tools and techniques as you did last year. But that could let […]
Growth: The importance of a word Growth is probably the most powerful word in the business vocabulary. Overtly, or subliminally, it drives everything we do as business leaders. ‘Growth’ is the primary measure of success and is a word that acts as a call to action for strategy, change and innovation […]
It’s a great strategy, but why isn’t anything getting done? OK, so you’ve crafted a great strategy, one that you’re proud of and that you’re sure will win. You’ve been working hard on it and you’ve communicated the strategy and its critical actions out through the organisation’s usual channels. Problems […]
So here’s the next in the ’10 Mistakes you don’t want to make’ series. The subject of this briefing is something that we should all be doing – no matter what size our business is – and that’s innovating. The main message here is that innovation doesn’t have to be […]
So it’s that time of year again. The summer holidays are now a distant memory. The annual business planning and budgeting cycle has kicked off and looks certain to dominate your agenda until Christmas Eve. Yes, crafting strategy is a critical task, but with crammed schedules it’s all too easy to make […]
