Perspectives — culture & capability

How Black Sheep prepare you for Black Swans

January 13, 2024 • culture & capability • strategic foresight • strategy

In business, the qualities of black sheep are invaluable. Black sheep are the divergent thinkers who can shake up organisational complacency, envision new futures and help navigate through ambiguity. With supportive leadership, they can generate the creative tension that leads to orthogonal ideas and breakthrough thinking.

Future Focus through Collective Immersion

June 10, 2023 • business models & platforms • culture & capability • strategic foresight

Developing an understanding of the strategic potential of new technologies, and of the impacts and implications of the macro trends and megatrends is key to de-risking the future of any organisation. Collective immersion is key to surfacing diverse perspectives, inspiring better questions, and accelerating exploration.

Cybernetic Thinking for Sustainable and Preferable Futures

March 11, 2023 • culture & capability • design insight • digital & 4IR technologies • strategy

The trans-disciplinary, integrative, collective, systems thinking of cybernetics places an explicit emphasis on the environmental impact of technologies, along with the human impacts, making it a truly holistic approach with which to tackle today’s increasingly interconnected ‘wicked’ problems, and ‘poly-crises’.

Three Lenses to Understand and Demystify Innovation

February 11, 2023 • culture & capability • value creation

Innovation is a word in very broad usage, but it can be hard to pin down exactly what people mean when talking about it. When organisations don’t have a common language to talk about innovation, inevitably there are misunderstandings about goals, expectations and outcomes. Three lenses can help to demystify innovation

Creativity and Innovation: Keys to Unlocking a Better Future

October 08, 2022 • culture & capability • human experience • shared value & ecosystems

Einstein famously said that today’s problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them, and history suggests he was right. Solving societal challenges through the centuries has typically relied on break-through technologies and break-out thinking. It has relied on imagining, or re-imagining, the world and then making that re-imagined world real. On creativity and innovation.