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.
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…
VUCA leadership is normally sold to you as a set of personal qualities. Be adaptive, be resilient, hold a clear vision and communicate well under pressure. I have watched that package land in Australian boardrooms and leadership offsites for twenty…