...moving beyond the status-quo
This is the final in a series about doing environmental scanning. In the previous five posts, we’ve discussed focusing your scanning, setting up your scanning team, how to start scanning, recording what you are finding and analysing your scanning output. This sixth post is about reporting your scanning findings within your organisation. This is a [...]
The nub of foresight work is conversation that lets people better understand what is happening ‘out there’ in the external environment so they can respond today to ensure their organisation survives in to the future. However, the conversation needs to be high quality, not the tick the box kind of conversation that often happens in [...]
It was a sad day for me yesterday. I decided to withdraw from a professional doctorate in higher education after about 8 weeks. I started a tradtional PhD a while ago, but withdrew from that because of a whole range of factors, best left to the past. So, I was excited to finally make the [...]
There’s an article in the May 2011 issue of Strategy Magazine from the Strategic Planning Society called Making the shift: why the future of work is here now, written by Lynda Grattan from the London Business School (full reference below). It talks about major forces ‘that will fundamentally shift much of what we take for granted about [...]
I read an interesting post from Herman Trend Alerts last week on Creativity – the Most Crucial Factor for Leadership Success. Right at the end was this phrase: Continuous Strategic Planning will be an ongoing process, rather than an annual one, so that the organization may respond to fast changing market conditions. Now, I don’t [...]
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