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The Agility Factor, an article on the strategy+business website is a good one, and worth reading. Why? It puts into business langauge the concepts that strategic foresight pracitioners like me have been saying with different words for some years now. I’ve written about the need for agility before, where I said that it’s easy to [...]
I think I first heard the phrase trust emergence from Joseph Voros when we were working together more than a decade ago to do foresight at Swinburne University of Technology. It’s become something of a mantra for me ever since, allowing me to let go of my deeply ingrained need for structure and trust that whatever happens, [...]
My blog posts often emerge out of a convergence of events over a few days. This time it was getting annoyed – again – with our fascination with prediction, being asked the same day to speak to a newspaper journalist about why predictions don’t come true (gladly I said!), and then today attending my last [...]
Cute terms abt org agility; ignores human factor in change: How Australian business can adapt in a turbulent world bit.ly/NNqpxd — Maree Conway (@MareeConway) September 24, 2012 I sent this tweet out this morning – the article it refers to is good, it packages up nicely the three key factors in building organisational agility. The [...]
Some of you who know me personally will know that over the past year, I’ve been dealing with a string of health issues, thankfully all relatively minor and all easily treatable. I’m very grateful for that outcome. What dealing with health stuff does when you get to my age is make you stop and re-think [...]
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