strategic design & innovation

Perspectives

How Black Sheep prepare you for Black Swans

culture & capability strategic foresight strategy

How Black Sheep prepare you for Black Swans

In business, the qualities of black sheep are invaluable. Black sheep are the divergent thinkers who can shake up organisational complacency, envision new futures and help navigate through ambiguity. With supportive leadership, they can generate the creative tension that leads to orthogonal ideas and breakthrough thinking.

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Future Focus through Collective Immersion

business models & platforms culture & capability strategic foresight

Future Focus through Collective Immersion

Developing an understanding of the strategic potential of new technologies, and of the impacts and implications of the macro trends and megatrends is key to de-risking the future of any organisation. Collective immersion is key to surfacing diverse perspectives, inspiring better questions, and accelerating exploration.

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Innovating Operating Models to Unleash Innovation

business models & platforms human experience shared value & ecosystems

Innovating Operating Models to Unleash Innovation

Ecosystem enabling operating models can accelerate organisational learning and responsiveness in the face of multiple plausible futures, create synergies that improve the economics of innovation, and accelerate the iterative process of innovation, significantly reducing the time between idea and realization and scale.

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AI Accelerating Automation, Human Potential & Possibility

digital & 4IR technologies strategic foresight value creation

AI Accelerating Automation, Human Potential & Possibility

Paradigm shifts in technology seem now to be occurring on a monthly basis. Offering an early signal into a more autonomous future is AutoGPT, which can complete a complex array of tasks, with minimal human direction, pushing the boundaries of what is possible with AI.

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Cybernetic Thinking for Sustainable and Preferable Futures

culture & capability design insight digital & 4IR technologies strategy

Cybernetic Thinking for Sustainable and Preferable Futures

The trans-disciplinary, integrative, collective, systems thinking of cybernetics places an explicit emphasis on the environmental impact of technologies, along with the human impacts, making it a truly holistic approach with which to tackle today’s increasingly interconnected ‘wicked’ problems, and ‘poly-crises’.

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