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Perspectives
Our clients rely on us for an original perspective on what strategic problems to solve for, and not to solve for. In this space, we share the articles, insights, provocations and trends on the latest in strategic foresight, design, technology, economics, and culture.
Beyond Artifacts Part 3: Orchestrating Emergent Futures
The Architecture of Adaptive Possibility The silence in the Birmingham conference room was suffocating. The executive leadership teams...
Jul 259 min read
Beyond Artifacts Part II: Strategic Foresight Through Design
The room was silent except for the sound of sketching. Twenty-seven executives from a Fortune 100 company, faced with an industry...
Jul 208 min read
Beyond Artifacts: The Strategic Imperative of Design Communication
There is a moment in every new product design.....when everything changes. Not the moment when the final prototype ships. Not when the...
Jul 207 min read
Revisiting Fashionably Foolish: brilliance, bargains, disruption, money, madness & climate change...
Read a great foresight-oriented article this morning, " Fashionably Foolish: brilliance, bargains, disruption, money (lots of money),...
Aug 29, 20242 min read
Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty
"Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty," was a talk presented in partnership with Product Management Today ....
Jul 26, 20242 min read
The Wages of Sin is Death in Product
“There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will." - St. Augustine of...
Mar 29, 20243 min read
Cicero Challenge: Strategic Foresight References List
"Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task...
Sep 2, 20238 min read
Pandora's Toolbox of Change Management
Traditional Organizational Change Management (OCM) fails spectacularly in fast moving, turbulent, highly competitive markets. I’m...
Jan 1, 20223 min read
Designing Resilience: The Strategy, Structure and Spirit of Enterprise Agility
Note: This is the introduction to my book, "Designing Resilience: The Strategy, Structure, and Spirit of Enterprise Agility." I'm in the...
Dec 1, 202019 min read
The Design of Systems of Innovation, Part III: Structuring Structures
This article is the third installment of the "The Design of Systems of Innovation," articles published over the past few weeks discussing...
Mar 29, 202015 min read
The Design of Systems of Innovation, Part II: Uncertainty and Constraints
This article is a continuation of "The Design of Systems of Innovation," article published last week discussing the context, key factors,...
Mar 1, 202015 min read
On Zen & Organizational Debt
As organizations scale and mature, we’ve often encountered that they develop structures, policies, and rules appropriate for their...
Dec 29, 20193 min read
The Design of Systems of Innovation
This is the first in a series of articles covering the context, key factors, constraints, impediments, and concerns of both culture and...
Feb 1, 201910 min read
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