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Help members, clients and partners to anticipate and better prepare for emerging opportunities and risks through better strategic foresight and action planning
DCI surveyed a group of economic developers to find out the biggest challenges they face (both professional and personal), and whether or not they would encourage their child to become an economic developer.
We've made diversity a priority here at Drift from day one and we want to hold ourselves accountable. So we are happy to announce the launch of the first edition of Drift's Diversity Report. We will continue to lean in on diversity to improve in all areas.
Now more than ever is important to remember the IT sector is still missing gender diversity. In this presentation I want to explain some facts about the gender gap across countries, how the technology sector is missing on the benefits of diversity as well as explore common behaviors in woman and man that we need to be aware of and change to help close the gap.
DCI surveyed a group of economic developers to find out the biggest challenges they face (both professional and personal), and whether or not they would encourage their child to become an economic developer.
We've made diversity a priority here at Drift from day one and we want to hold ourselves accountable. So we are happy to announce the launch of the first edition of Drift's Diversity Report. We will continue to lean in on diversity to improve in all areas.
Now more than ever is important to remember the IT sector is still missing gender diversity. In this presentation I want to explain some facts about the gender gap across countries, how the technology sector is missing on the benefits of diversity as well as explore common behaviors in woman and man that we need to be aware of and change to help close the gap.
The world is morphing fast:
Low economic growth
Increasing uncertainty
Accelerating change
Increasing complexity
Digitalization
More chance of surprise
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Shaping Tomorrow - Getting Started - IntroductionKerry Richardson
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Shaping Tomorrow is the world’s first, multi-award winning, and only AI-driven, systems thinking model that delivers strategic foresight and anticipatory thinking in real-time.
Shaping Tomorrow - Guide - Introduction - May 2019Kerry Richardson
The updated world's challenges below show the top threats and opportunities as they are forecasted to be seven years from now. You can check out what you don't know about these, and specific topics of interest to you, using the search box above, or the links below to begin planning and actioning your response.
9 Key Responsibilities of Nonprofit Executive DirectorsTechSoup
The role of a nonprofit executive director (ED) is all-encompassing. The ED is literally in charge of everything, including the success of their board. And while every nonprofit is different, there are nine key areas that every ED should master. Don't count on your board to know what EDs actually do. By knowing the job, you can deliver for your mission, your board, and your career. In this 60-minute webinar, we will
Learn what high-performing EDs prioritize
Learn what can be delegated and what is your job
Get free tools and templates to make the job easier
GuideStar Webinar (04/24/12) - Charting Your ImpactGuideStar
GuideStar webinar on 04/24/12.
Andrea Affeltranger, Director, Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership and Practice, Independent Sector; Robert Wade Anthony, Founder and Executive Director, Adolescent Wellness; José Fernández, Director, GuideStar Exchange; Melanie Matthews, Director of Capacity Building and Operations, Campion Foundation; and Mikaela Seligman, Vice President, Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership and Practice, Independent Sector (moderator)
Being a Cultural Warrior: 3 Proven Practices for Driving Engagement and Effic...Snag
Whatever your organization is designed to deliver, whether it’s a product or a service, you will win or lose based on how well your people are able to work and perform as a team. If you have have the best processes in the world, but your people don’t really care, you can be good, but you will never be awesome. And if you aren’t after awesome, what are you after?
With extensive experience in the manufacturing biz, Beau Groover, the former Director of Lean Supply Chain with Serta Simmons Bedding and Founder and President of The Effective Syndicate, will share what he’s learned from two decades in the service industry that will help you align your people, processes and products ... and make your business thrive.
Check out our joint presentation, ‘Being a Cultural Warrior,’ with TalentStream and Beau Groover to:
-- Define clearly what the vision, mission and values are that represent your brand and motivate your team
-- Uncover how to effectively evaluate your team … and yourself
-- Understand what being a Cultural Warrior looks like, the strategy to get there, and how it'll improve customer service from the ground up
-- Get tips on how to improve process efficiency and produce highly predictable results
-- Learn how to develop a successful organizational structure, including succession planning, leadership development and teamwork coaching
Have you ever needed a way to measure your leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your need to improve as a leader? If you have ever wondered what your core leadership competencies are and how to build on and improve them, Jennifer Bonine shares a toolkit to help you do just that. This toolkit includes a personal assessment of your leadership competencies, explores a set of eight dimensions of successful leaders, provides suggestions on how you can improve competencies that are not in your core set of strengths, and describes techniques for leveraging and building on your strengths. These tools can help you become a more effective and valued leader in your organization. Exercises help you gain an understanding of yourself and strive for balanced leadership through recognition of both your strengths and your “development opportunities.”
Whether you are creating and leading strategy for your organization or have a role in driving adoption of a strategy there are three, easily avoidable mistakes that many organizations and leaders make: (1) not being clear on intent, (2) not understanding if all leaders are on-board with the strategy, and (3) not predicting and mitigating failure points.
In this webinar, Erica Tetuan, Change Management Practice Lead, will explore:
A formula to ensure the intent is clear and you know your role in bringing the strategy to life
A method for thinking about who needs to be engaged in leading the strategy and how to determine if their support of the strategy and aptitude for leading the change is where you need it to be and how to assess yourself
The power of being predictive to be preventative – how to see around corners to make better decisions and plan for things that might go awry
#askSAP EPM Innovations Community Call: How Planning Can Ignite Digital Trans...SAP Analytics
SAP.com/EPM - With various planning solutions available at SAP including SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud for planning, get a better understanding on how using one or both of these tools can help drive Digital Transformation in the Enterprise.
Learn what the latest releases of these SAP solutions offer and how they can work together to bring further insights to the Finance department.
Building your talent base for the future is essential – especially with your emerging leaders. But do you know the best techniques to coach these high potential employees, or how to improve your coaching’s speed and effectiveness by using smart technologies and data sharing?
In this webinar Infor’s Jason Taylor and Kenneth Fung share their proven methods for ensuring full motivation and engagement during coaching. They will also reveal how working with behaviors allows you to develop a common language and to focus on delivering results.
Do data leaders face unique challenges as leaders?Paul Laughlin
A leadership development talk given to private event for senior data leaders - it sparked some really useful conversations. To find out more please checkout: http://laughlinconsultancy.com
There are rapid changes taking place in the spaces people work and learn in, how these spaces are operated, the services that are offered in them and online, and how people work to deliver these services, and how people and teams are organized. Elliot talk's about how to become a more change-ready organization in order to adapt to these changes. This will include conducting a baseline assessment, increasing awareness across people / teams / departments, new kinds of organizational design and structures, using mission / purpose as a focusing tool, effective decision-making processes, ways to work in more agile ways through prototyping and piloting, and ways to evaluate progress and continually improve.
Failure in climate change mitigation could lead to greater human life and economic losses during the coming decades. Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War Two this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill.
By the end of the year, the simulation models that nearly 67% of all people in the world will have been infected by coronavirus at some point.
Though one face of the current crisis is likely to be short-lived-scientists are predicting that the COVID-19 pandemic will peak by mid-year.
[Climate change, technological advances, and unprecedented levels of inequality mean that global disruption could become a norm in the coming decades.]
The world is morphing fast:
Low economic growth
Increasing uncertainty
Accelerating change
Increasing complexity
Digitalization
More chance of surprise
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Shaping Tomorrow - Getting Started - IntroductionKerry Richardson
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Shaping Tomorrow is the world’s first, multi-award winning, and only AI-driven, systems thinking model that delivers strategic foresight and anticipatory thinking in real-time.
Shaping Tomorrow - Guide - Introduction - May 2019Kerry Richardson
The updated world's challenges below show the top threats and opportunities as they are forecasted to be seven years from now. You can check out what you don't know about these, and specific topics of interest to you, using the search box above, or the links below to begin planning and actioning your response.
9 Key Responsibilities of Nonprofit Executive DirectorsTechSoup
The role of a nonprofit executive director (ED) is all-encompassing. The ED is literally in charge of everything, including the success of their board. And while every nonprofit is different, there are nine key areas that every ED should master. Don't count on your board to know what EDs actually do. By knowing the job, you can deliver for your mission, your board, and your career. In this 60-minute webinar, we will
Learn what high-performing EDs prioritize
Learn what can be delegated and what is your job
Get free tools and templates to make the job easier
GuideStar Webinar (04/24/12) - Charting Your ImpactGuideStar
GuideStar webinar on 04/24/12.
Andrea Affeltranger, Director, Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership and Practice, Independent Sector; Robert Wade Anthony, Founder and Executive Director, Adolescent Wellness; José Fernández, Director, GuideStar Exchange; Melanie Matthews, Director of Capacity Building and Operations, Campion Foundation; and Mikaela Seligman, Vice President, Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership and Practice, Independent Sector (moderator)
Being a Cultural Warrior: 3 Proven Practices for Driving Engagement and Effic...Snag
Whatever your organization is designed to deliver, whether it’s a product or a service, you will win or lose based on how well your people are able to work and perform as a team. If you have have the best processes in the world, but your people don’t really care, you can be good, but you will never be awesome. And if you aren’t after awesome, what are you after?
With extensive experience in the manufacturing biz, Beau Groover, the former Director of Lean Supply Chain with Serta Simmons Bedding and Founder and President of The Effective Syndicate, will share what he’s learned from two decades in the service industry that will help you align your people, processes and products ... and make your business thrive.
Check out our joint presentation, ‘Being a Cultural Warrior,’ with TalentStream and Beau Groover to:
-- Define clearly what the vision, mission and values are that represent your brand and motivate your team
-- Uncover how to effectively evaluate your team … and yourself
-- Understand what being a Cultural Warrior looks like, the strategy to get there, and how it'll improve customer service from the ground up
-- Get tips on how to improve process efficiency and produce highly predictable results
-- Learn how to develop a successful organizational structure, including succession planning, leadership development and teamwork coaching
Have you ever needed a way to measure your leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your need to improve as a leader? If you have ever wondered what your core leadership competencies are and how to build on and improve them, Jennifer Bonine shares a toolkit to help you do just that. This toolkit includes a personal assessment of your leadership competencies, explores a set of eight dimensions of successful leaders, provides suggestions on how you can improve competencies that are not in your core set of strengths, and describes techniques for leveraging and building on your strengths. These tools can help you become a more effective and valued leader in your organization. Exercises help you gain an understanding of yourself and strive for balanced leadership through recognition of both your strengths and your “development opportunities.”
Whether you are creating and leading strategy for your organization or have a role in driving adoption of a strategy there are three, easily avoidable mistakes that many organizations and leaders make: (1) not being clear on intent, (2) not understanding if all leaders are on-board with the strategy, and (3) not predicting and mitigating failure points.
In this webinar, Erica Tetuan, Change Management Practice Lead, will explore:
A formula to ensure the intent is clear and you know your role in bringing the strategy to life
A method for thinking about who needs to be engaged in leading the strategy and how to determine if their support of the strategy and aptitude for leading the change is where you need it to be and how to assess yourself
The power of being predictive to be preventative – how to see around corners to make better decisions and plan for things that might go awry
#askSAP EPM Innovations Community Call: How Planning Can Ignite Digital Trans...SAP Analytics
SAP.com/EPM - With various planning solutions available at SAP including SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud for planning, get a better understanding on how using one or both of these tools can help drive Digital Transformation in the Enterprise.
Learn what the latest releases of these SAP solutions offer and how they can work together to bring further insights to the Finance department.
Building your talent base for the future is essential – especially with your emerging leaders. But do you know the best techniques to coach these high potential employees, or how to improve your coaching’s speed and effectiveness by using smart technologies and data sharing?
In this webinar Infor’s Jason Taylor and Kenneth Fung share their proven methods for ensuring full motivation and engagement during coaching. They will also reveal how working with behaviors allows you to develop a common language and to focus on delivering results.
Do data leaders face unique challenges as leaders?Paul Laughlin
A leadership development talk given to private event for senior data leaders - it sparked some really useful conversations. To find out more please checkout: http://laughlinconsultancy.com
There are rapid changes taking place in the spaces people work and learn in, how these spaces are operated, the services that are offered in them and online, and how people work to deliver these services, and how people and teams are organized. Elliot talk's about how to become a more change-ready organization in order to adapt to these changes. This will include conducting a baseline assessment, increasing awareness across people / teams / departments, new kinds of organizational design and structures, using mission / purpose as a focusing tool, effective decision-making processes, ways to work in more agile ways through prototyping and piloting, and ways to evaluate progress and continually improve.
Failure in climate change mitigation could lead to greater human life and economic losses during the coming decades. Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War Two this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill.
By the end of the year, the simulation models that nearly 67% of all people in the world will have been infected by coronavirus at some point.
Though one face of the current crisis is likely to be short-lived-scientists are predicting that the COVID-19 pandemic will peak by mid-year.
[Climate change, technological advances, and unprecedented levels of inequality mean that global disruption could become a norm in the coming decades.]
Digital transformation is a strategic priority for most global companies and will open new revenue opportunities. We would suggest that digital transformation should be a priority and a big opportunity for most SME’s too. There will be long tails and many new innovations in every corner of business in the next decade.
The United Nations forecasts global population growth to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, which will be accompanied by fostering urbanisation and changing consumer preferences
Even in a scenario where a shared determination to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change in full leads to a sharp reduction in oil consumption worldwide, there would still be an oil market of 67 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2040
Shaping Tomorro - Global Outlook - A Future PrognosisKerry Richardson
Up to 800 million global workers will lose their jobs by 2030 and be replaced by robotic automation
Geopolitical realignments, emerging technologies, and demographic shifts will all contribute to different manifestations of ideologically and politically motivated violence.
1 billion people will be displaced from uninhabitable land and food and water shortages will occur worldwide, leading to social breakdown and outright chaos.
Over the next 10 years the world of work is set to rapidly change, with the World Economic Forum predicting that disruptive changes to business models will have a profound impact on the employment landscape in the coming years
Discover emerging change in your interest topics as it happens
Automatically follow rivals, experts, suppliers, regulators, protest groups
Profile and analyze your rivals
Assess your own competitive position
Assess potential M&A targets
Determine your own vulnerability to an unwanted bid
Blockchain Outlook - Shaping Tomorrow - Trend AlertKerry Richardson
Machine learning, biotechnology and blockchain technology will change the world in the coming decades, making it an ever safer, more rational and business-friendly place.
Driving forces: Over the next 10 years the world of work is set to rapidly change, with the World Economic Forum predicting that disruptive changes to business models will have a profound impact on the employment landscape in the coming years
Shaping Tomorrow - Guide - Navigation - May 2019Kerry Richardson
The updated world's challenges below show the top threats and opportunities as they are forecasted to be seven years from now. You can check out what you don't know about these, and specific topics of interest to you, using the search box above, or the links below to begin planning and actioning your response.
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Equip yourself with AI-driven research, instant forward intelligence, auto scenarios & collaborative strategic thinking to plan your future & act in time.
The system helps you to define, gather, analyze, prioritize and distribute forward intelligence about products, customers, competitors, policies, strategies and your environment to support you in 'making better decisions today'.
Shaping Tomorrow is the world’s first, multi-award winning, and only AI-driven, systems thinking model that delivers strategic foresight and anticipatory thinking in real-time.
Shaping Tomorrow is the world’s first, multi-award winning, and only AI-driven, systems thinking model that delivers strategic foresight and anticipatory thinking in real-time.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
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INTRODUCTION
Our Purpose
⮚ Help you to identify and manage change to
achieve strategic agility, organizational
resilience, innovation and risk mitigation
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connecting, collecting, computing, and creating.
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WHY STRATEGIC FORESIGHT?
The world is morphing fast:
⮚ Low economic growth
⮚ Increasing uncertainty
⮚ Accelerating change
⮚ Increasing complexity
⮚ Digitalization
⮚ More chance of surprise
Organizations refocusing on:
⮚ Improving efficiency
⮚ Agility
⮚ Stability
⮚ Capability
⮚ Risk mitigation
⮚ Developing alternative scenarios
⮚ Innovation that create better futures for all
AND
⮚ Changing their story accordingly and quickly
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‘Strategic Foresight practices
boost profitability by 33%
and market capitalization
growth by 200%.’
Rohrbeck and Kurn 2018
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MANAGING CHANGE
⮚ Managing change is a process that can be
systematized
⮚ Increasing strategic foresight capability is
the first step in systematic change
management
⮚ Having strategic foresight increases future
opportunity and reduces emerging risk
⮚ Begin by identifying and monitoring
change going on in the world around you,
then critique the implications, imagine
future differences, envision your preferred
future and plan and act on what you now
know
“Foresight is an art not a science that requires
much practice” [D. Loveridge]
but,
“Practice means you can turn vicious issues into
long-term virtual cycles of success” [M. Jackson]
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WHAT STRATEGIC FORESIGHT IS NOT!
⮚ Only using the rear-view mirror to drive
your car i.e. using straight line projected
past and concurrent trends to navigate
without seeing bends, shortcuts and
roadblocks in the road ahead. A trend is
only a trend until it bends!
⮚ Following fads, fashions and rivals
without deep, innovative and usually
collaborative thinking.
⮚ A fun, playtime exercise rather than a
serious chess game with real-world
results and outcomes.
⮚ Comfortable or easy.
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If you drive your car through the rear view mirror
you will miss what’s right in front of you.
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Slavishly following past trends and driving till the road
runs out means you are likely to take a route that
others have already left with the danger that you will
crash or die. Think the 2009 Global Financial Crisis,
Newspapers, Kodak, Nokia, MySpace etc.
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WHAT YOU CAN DO HERE?
⮚ Scan the horizon for emerging intelligence
and solutions to your emerging issues
⮚ Plan your organization’s anticipatory
strategy
⮚ Act on your decisions at the best time
⮚ Network and share emerging challenges
⮚ Learn how to be more resilient to change
⮚ Ask us to research your future
opportunities and risks
⮚ Privatize your own content and thinking
and own-brand this site
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RATIONALE
Today:
⮚ Strategic thinking is complex, messy,
costly, time-consuming, requires
considerable knowledge and expertise
which is in no one place
⮚ Similarly, education in strategic thinking
⮚ Strategic thinking is mostly in the hands of
experts (Hedgehogs1) and they in turn are
constrained by the same issues above
⮚ Consequently, only a few organizations are
wold-class in strategic thinking and most
people make decisions based on past
experiences and partial knowledge without
the complete picture
1 Source: http://www.agilemarketing.net/fox-
hedgehog/
Tomorrow:
⮚ As the pace of change accelerates
organizations need a simpler, faster way to
do strategic thinking, to respond just-in-
time and to become agile and resilient in
ever more uncertain times
⮚ Education in strategic thinking needs to be
immediate and knowledge of what we all
can see of the future, near-instant, to drive
competitive advantage and shape better
tomorrows
⮚ Strategic thinking needs to be in the hands
of non-experts (Foxes1) too, to speed up
decision-making, get most organizations in
the world to best and next practice and
help more people become forward-thinking
in their outlook and actions
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“We are here to help you make better decisions today, faster
and cheaper than ever before through strategic foresight”
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DAT
A
INFORMATION
KNOWLEDGE
WISDOM
Raw evidence to
INSIGHTS
Extracted indicators to
FORECASTS
QUESTIONS* to ANSWERS &
POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS
METHODS to RESPONSES
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What must be done?
What could be done?
What is predicted?
What is reported?
Our
Process
OUR KNOWLEDGE MODEL (DIKW)
Strategic
Foresight
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* Athena now gathers the Data and extracts
verbatim Information instantly. She is now
beginning to offer Knowledge on what could
be done by finding Answers to extracted
Questions on the Web and potential solutions.
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BENEFITS OF AI
Before
⮚ Random human scanning
⮚ 60 Insights per week
⮚ Zero forecasts per week
⮚ When spotted
⮚ One by one
⮚ Statistically irrelevant
⮚ <50 human researchers
⮚ Full time editor
⮚ ~3,000 sources
⮚ Many missed changes
⮚ Project time 6-26 weeks
⮚ Limited uses
⮚ Limited USP
After
⮚ Systematic robot scanning
⮚ >5,000 Insights per week
⮚ >2,500 Forecasts per week
⮚ Daily
⮚ Massive scale
⮚ Instant pattern identification
⮚ Robot equivalent of 5,000+ researchers
⮚ Part time editor
⮚ ~40,000+sources
⮚ Few missed changes
⮚ Project time less than one day
⮚ Growing uses
⮚ Huge USP (90% cheaper than traditional
methods and real-time)
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BENEFITS TO YOU & YOUR ORGANIZATION
Your Organization
⮚ Keep abreast of market developments and
stay steps ahead of your competition in
real-time.
⮚ Spot fresh opportunities for innovation and
growth
⮚ Mitigate emerging risks
⮚ Improve confidence in your actions and
reduce uncertainty through collaboration
⮚ Be smarter, agile and resilient through
taking a systemic and forward-looking
approach to your decision-making and
subsequent actions
⮚ Develop your organization to be constantly
future-focused
⮚ Survive and succeed in a period of massive
disruptive change
⮚ Create new markets and play on fields your
competitors don’t
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You
Increase your foresight
Improve your personal contribution
Be a leader not a follower
Build your internal and external networks
Develop new thinking skills
Contribute to making a better world
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11OUR AIM
Our aim is to help you continuously anticipate how we will live and
better prepare for emerging global opportunities and risks.
What you’ll find here to help you do a great job:
⮚ PROFILE: keep your profile up-to-date and let us help you
⮚ GUIDE: learn how to get the best out of the service
⮚ SOURCES: add and view content originators
⮚ CHALLENGES: get instant, prospective on the future
⮚ REPORTS: create and publish customized reports
⮚ DECISIONS: manage your innovation and threat pipeline
⮚ MEMBERS: learn from other future interested people
⮚ ACTIVITIES: view actions you’ve taken
⮚ ASK ATHENA: ask our robot for help
⮚ EXPERT PANELS: find experts
⮚ ADVISORY SERVICES: hire our facilitators
⮚ HOW WILL THE FUTURE BE DIFFERENT?: global survey
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Sources
320,000+
auto produced
searchable
forecasts
8-15 vital few
Decisions
Members Groups
Organizations
Keywords
Pundits
Experts
Forecasts
Metrics
Tools
Intelligence
Act Now
Not yet
Watch
Forget
Completed
Making better
decisions today
~30,000+
HOW SHAPING TOMORROW WORKS
ST’s white box system
AI Tool
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1313SETTINGS
⮚ Please help us to help you by keeping your
profile, email subscriptions, interests and
style up-to-date
⮚ You will benefit by allowing other members
to contact you and we will be able to tailor
our service to your needs
⮚ We respect and protect your privacy (we
were fully GDPR compliant even before
GDPR)
⮚ Personal information about you is not
disclosed to any third party without first
receiving your permission
⮚ By contributing to our service you can
increase your personal standing and
competence within our community and
help shape tomorrow for the benefit of all
First things first
A little time spent polishing your profile will pay big
dividends here
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GUIDE
Learn more in our onsite, training manual
⮚ If you are new here or need a refresher our
Guide will lead you through how to get the
best out of this service.
⮚ If you still can’t find what you need then
Ask Athena: your digital assistant,
personal coach and online educator. She
can help you with your questions about the
service.
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Add Sources
⮚ Add automatic and manual material’
⮚ Set up continuous tracking of sources and keywords
⮚ View your Source log or Sources of change
Special features
⮚ Add, edit and view in your native language
⮚ Create your own corporate memory
⮚ Develop your enterprise-wide knowledge management
system
⮚ Subscribe to our multi-lingual service for an additional
fee per selected country
Track emerging evidence of change
To begin you can either Add Sources of interest to you or just explore our database
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FORECASTS
The system finds instant and automatic future
‘Forecasts' about probable, possible and potential
future world conditions.
You need merely Add Sources and Athena, our
robot, will do the rest,
You can then develop the likely future story of your
chosen topic in text form by clicking:
Summary: latest forecasts added by Athena
Narrative: longer report organized by theme
Chronology: same but organized by time
Questions: auto extraction of questions by
Athena and access to possible answers at Google
Refine: improve your search term
Get instant, extracted prospective on your interest topics
With this system, members can develop their strategic
responses, create professional foresight reports and
presentations in less than half a day on any topic of their
choice compared with the many weeks taken by
traditional methods
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METRICS
Picture the future of your interest with:
⮚ System map – view related topics
⮚ Outlooks: likely prospects over time
⮚ Comparisons – compare topics, sectors, countries ..
⮚ Opinions – check sentiments, sources and leaders views
⮚ SWOT – view strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
threats
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TOOLS
⮚ Deploy the very best, collaborative Strategic
Thinking methods to determine your responses
to emerging change in hours rather than the
traditional methods that take months or years.
⮚ The six top methods available here are:
- Options Analysis: develop fast responses
to emerging change
- Gapfinder: instantly identify your
organizations disconnects
- Rivalries: examine your competitors future
- CLA: Causal Layered Analysis – identify
transformative spaces for the creation of
alternative futures
- Scenarios: examine and respond to 4 global
futures
- Three Horizons: manage your current
performance while maximizing future
opportunities for growth
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More inside
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INTELLIGENCE
⮚ Search for more lagging and co-incident
intelligence on:
- Organizations: see what specific
organizations are doing
- Meetings: see where future-oriented
meetings are scheduled
- R&D: know what research projects
are planned
- Funding: find whose investing in what
⮚ View All:
- My: only you can see your work
- Our: only you and your associates can
see each other’s work
- All: everyone with access to the platform
can see your work
⮚ Export All: download the latest spreadsheet
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WORLD CHALLENGES
⮚ The World Challenges charts show the top
threats and opportunities as they are
forecasted to be in the future
⮚ World Challenges pops up every time you
enter the service.
⮚ We believe this is a world first!
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SOLUTIONS
⮚ In what we think is another world first our
robot can suggest solutions to your
challenges and issues you search for
⮚ This is an extract of forecasts looking for
those that suggest next practice
⮚ We still have much development to do here
⮚ But, you can already explore this list for
next practice ideas to bring to your
organization ahead of most others
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YOUR CHALLENGES
Keep abreast of your own emerging challenges:
⮚ If you are a client, you can set up your own,
private, automated, summary reports on topics of
your choice
⮚ That means that once your Sources are established
and your Challenges defined that your scanning
will be automatic, near to real-time and require
very little human intervention other than deciding
your strategic responses using our methods
Or you can watch
⮚ United Nations global goals that will affect you
⮚ G20 Watch for emerging issues likely to impact
you
⮚ Your own pre-selected benchmark organizations
⮚ Our suggestions as to the key organizations to
learn from
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REPORTS
⮚ Add, view and publish customized reports
⮚ Read our Trending Now newsletter archive
⮚ Challenge your thinking with strategic
management questions
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DECISIONS
⮚ Use the ‘Decisions’ button to determine
where a project fits in your pipeline:
- Act now!: do this immediately
- Not yet: manage until ready
- Watch: keep under review
- Forget: reject
- Completed: implemented solution
⮚ Your decision(s) will appear in the left-
hand navigation bar
⮚ Once you have made some decisions you
can move your decisions up and down the
pipeline.
Manage your projects
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Here you can:
Find futurists and ask for their advice, hire them, listen to, learn and help each other anticipate change
Find new opportunities to collaborate and co-create the future in public or in private
⮚ ‘Add’ to your profile to maximize your membership benefits by:
- editing your basic information
- adding your interests so we can tailor our
service to you
- describing your career for other members
to find you for their projects
⮚ - evaluating your style – worldview and
cognitive reasoning
⮚ View ‘All’ visible members, email them and see their interests
⮚ Dialog with others, critique and or add views in the ‘Forums’
⮚ Join and or view All Groups (Groups allow their members to work
with our content directly (Social media networks like LinkedIn don’t)
⮚ The Groups capability allows you to ‘Tag’, ‘Report’, ‘Share’ and add Forecasts and Insights as evidence etc.
Determine how you will respond
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ACTIVITIES
⮚ Details recent visits you have made here
⮚ Shows recent forecasts you have looked at
⮚ Lists Tags you added to Sources and
Forecasts
⮚ Lists Tags you added to Insights
⮚ Gives information on your Pay-As-You-Go
purchases
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PRIVACY AND PRICING
You can choose to:
⮚ Work in public: ‘All’* - any first content
page is available in a free trial. Your work
will be visible to others
⮚ Work on your own privately with a single
licence and subscribe to see all open
content
⮚ Work with associates privately or publicly
and have access to all open content and our
many other bespoke services
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ALERTS
⮚ Each week either our robot, Athena,
creates a short Trend Alert on a key
emerging issue that is sent to our ~10,000
members
⮚ You can also ask us for a customized, Trend
Alert or in-depth GIST report on any other
topic of interest to you
⮚ Use these as fire-starters with your
executives and managers to get their juices
flowing on how these might affect your
organization and what to do next
⮚ You can use our Questioning methods to
prompt their responses
⮚ If you are a client you will need a second
email address to receive these and access
your own private site
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CUSTOM SERVICES
Contact us, if you want your own private or partner
site giving you the following:
⮚ Own logo – Own look and feel – Private content
⮚ Multi-team licenses
⮚ Read only facility available
⮚ Choice of blank content site, selected or full
member content
Or, foresight, strategy and change management
advice, futures research, reports, talks,
newsfeeds, research, surveys, coaching &
training, and stakeholder inspiration,
engagement or enablement
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MULTILINGUAL
We now offer multilingual forecast extraction
to clients on a country by country basis
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Manual Tracking and categorization of data:
• 1st year of TFA we had a contractor create and maintain the Research Database.
• Not effective at all. Costly, hard to update, not used after the fact.
Search for a solution:
• Next year spent 3 to 4 months searching for solutions and had a few companies provide demos and trials.
Results:
• Very complete but complex ones…. but too expensive ~ $200K+/year
• News services which are also expensive and have limited in scope and access.
• Wide collection of free and paid for tools that was way too cumbersome to manage and would require some
programming to integrate and use effectively.
Shaping Tomorrow:
• Mentioned by my a Foresight colleague in another organization, fit the bill for information search and
management , Foresight tools and reasonable cost. We signed up.
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This Canadian client signed up for ST’s service in 2016. They moved jobs and made this
presentation to their new colleagues. They have now signed up too.
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PROOF POINTS
⮚ "You have created a unique and very impressive scanning and foresight platform"
James Mason, AllState Insurance United States
⮚ "The Shaping Tomorrow workshop was incredibly valuable in demonstrating the potential use of
the integrated foresight, strategy and change tools - I am impressed with how widely the tools
can be applied to our daily work and how the systematic approach ensures that we cover off areas
we perhaps wouldn't think of including in our analysis. I really like its systematic approach
and the fact that it can be used in diverse areas such as policy formulation,
forecasting, provision of advice to senior levels of government etc."
Raana Asgar - DAFF (Australia)
⮚ "Shaping Tomorrow provided the tools and expertise to quickly assimilate market
information, identify key drivers and create multiple scenarios. We were able to
identify many options to help steer the company and test our strategic plans."
Russell Trueman, Strategic Planning Manager - British Gypsum (United Kingdom)
⮚ "I've been using Shaping Tomorrow for more than 3 years now. It not only has significantly
shortened the amount of time needed to scan, but has also increased the quantity of information
reviewed and the quality of the hits. This allows more time for analysis and interpretation (where
Shaping Tomorrow also has some great tools to support). And the team at Shaping Tomorrow
couldn't be more helpful."
Angela Stone, Queensland Department Transport & Main Roads Australia
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NOW GET STARTED
⮚ Begin exploring the service
⮚ Consult the other detailed help ‘GUIDES’
here
⮚ Learn how to get ahead of rivals
⮚ Contact us if you have any difficulties or
would like up to 40 minutes free, online
training
We are here to help. Feel free to contact us
⮚ +44 (0) 1273 832221
⮚ info@shapingtomorrow.com
⮚ Skype: shapingtomorrow
⮚ Ask Athena
“We are here to help you make
better strategy decisions today,
faster.
better and cheaper than ever before”
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