April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
6h 57m
English
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11Leading from the Future
Questions that your future needs you to answer today.
Ultimately, an organisation's leaders choose its future. But the status quo can be a formidable foe that too easily distracts executive attention from what's coming.
At the very least, leaders should build in a rhythm of meaningful review of the following areas:
Resourcing the future
- Whose primary responsibility is it to think about the future?
- Is the quality and quantity of their ‘future time’ sufficient?
- What additional resources do we need to more accurately detect ‘weak signals from the future'?
- Are we investing in oracles or expecting miracles?
Trend-spotting
- Which trends are we tracking right now and why?
- Which trends have the greatest potential impact on our business model?
- How regularly are we tracking trends?
- What is the quality of our sources?
Interpretation
- How often are we renewing our market scenarios?
- How effectively do we turn trend data into actionable insights?
- What is our track record in designing accurate scenarios, e.g. accuracy of a 1-year, 2-year, 5-year, 7-year scenario?
- How regularly is the board engaging deeply in scenario discussions and their strategic implications?
- How are product development team decision-making processes demonstrably responding to emerging market insights?
You would be surprised how many companies don't track the future meaningfully. Measure for a gradually improving ability to do this and you'll be investing in zombie kryptonite.
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