Old Assumption: My business environment is stable so I can do annual plans once a year, and even some long range planning
New Assumption: My business environment is chaotic, uncertain and is in perpetual turbulence I need to be spotting and anticipate opportunity windows and threats/risks on an on-going basis, beyond my annual strategic planning cycle (like the Opportunity Clinic developed by Walter Derzko at the Idea Lab, Design Exchange, Toronto)
Walter Derzko
This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
By: Robert Safian
January 9, 2012
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business?partner=gnews
Sack your forecasters and embrace the
chaos
The business world is descending into chaos, and bosses should stop trying to fight it, writes Robert Safian. Long-range forecasts and strategic plans are a lost cause, so bosses should focus instead on developing a "mind-set that embraces instability, that tolerates -- and even enjoys -- recalibrating careers, business models, and assumptions," Safian writes
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