strategic design & innovation

Perspectives — culture & capability

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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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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Three Lenses to Understand and Demystify Innovation

culture & capability value creation

Three Lenses to Understand and Demystify Innovation

Innovation is a word in very broad usage, but it can be hard to pin down exactly what people mean when talking about it. When organisations don’t have a common language to talk about innovation, inevitably there are misunderstandings about goals, expectations and outcomes. Three lenses can help to demystify innovation 

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Creativity and Innovation: Keys to Unlocking a Better Future

culture & capability human experience shared value & ecosystems

Creativity and Innovation: Keys to Unlocking a Better Future

Einstein famously said that today’s problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them, and history suggests he was right. Solving societal challenges through the centuries has typically relied on break-through technologies and break-out thinking. It has relied on imagining, or re-imagining, the world and then making that re-imagined world real. On creativity and innovation.

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