Futureproofing is the strategic discipline that enables organisations to navigate economic, technological and social disruption without losing direction.
With business failures continuing to rise and organisations facing unprecedented levels of change fatigue, improving today’s operations is no longer enough. This category presents the seven-step START framework, the Future Readiness Audit, the Futureproofing Toolkit and practical implementation guides.
Value creation at work is what separates a busy week from a useful one. How many times have you finished a working day feeling busy without having moved anything forward? That vague sense that despite the hours, the back-to-back meetings…
The fear of becoming obsolete has stopped belonging to factory workers facing robots. It reaches accountants facing automation, designers facing generative image tools, developers facing code assistants and consultants facing chatbots. You know the feeling. It arrives when you read…
Career option capital is what replaces the career plan once working life starts changing faster than any plan can follow, and working life has changed more in the last five years than in the three decades before it. We keep…
You think artificial intelligence is the only thing threatening your career? That would be good news, because at least we would know where the danger was coming from. There are five categories of professional obsolescence risk that could make you…
BANI leadership gets sold to you as an upgrade. Brittle, anxious, non-linear and incomprehensible, four new words to replace the four old words of VUCA, as if renaming the weather had ever changed the forecast. I have watched that swap…
Being innovative is no longer enough. You have to be disruptive. But disruptive in which sense exactly? Does it mean showing you are a rebel taking on an established business on its own ground? Does it mean being visionary enough…
The future of work is the most fashionable subject in management and one of the least useful. Between the people frightened of automation and the ones evangelising a world of freelancers, everybody has a view about what is coming and…
Find the disruptions before they find you. Disruptions rather than trends, because I have a problem with trends and it is worth being precise about what the problem is. For a trend to be identified as one, it has to…
Dealing with ambiguity is the part of VUCA managers understand least and meet most often. Volatility they accept, since everyone agrees the world moves quickly. Uncertainty they have learned to live with. Complexity they are starting to handle by working…
Managing complexity has produced the most quoted piece of bad advice in business. Faced with a complex environment, simplify. It sounds sensible, it sells well, and it is the reliable way to make a complex system more dangerous rather than…
L'incertitude retarde les processus décisionnels et augmente l'inquiétude sur l'avenir.
VUCA volatility is now common currency for spotting transformations early, whether they are technological, economic, social or societal, and whether they land on the organisation or on the people inside it. VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, four…