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About terop

Futurist and IT Strategist. Public speaker, PhD (Industries of the Future), author ("Jobs. Future. You."), teacher (IT, leadership)

Facing the future

Futures, Strategic Foresight, Vision

How do you face the future?

How do you think about the potential directions you or your organisation could take?

How should you respond to potential risks and opportunities?

One way is to use the Futures Triangle. A framework for looking at what has happened and what could happen.

The first set of questions are about your past:

  • what is the weight of the past?
  • what is holding you back?
  • what are your burdens and responsibilities?

The second set of questions are about the drivers of change:

  • what factors are causing you to change?
  • what are the changes you should resist?
  • what are the changes you should embrace?

The third set of questions are about the images of the future:

  • what attracts you about the future?
  • what repels you about the future?
  • what will success look like?

By thinking through these can you make the case for change, or make the case for staying as you are?

 
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The Big 3 V’s of Strategy

Planning Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategy

Velocity, Volume and Variety.

Its the latest set of words that describe the environment we are living in and the business environment that we are operating in.

Yes, the terms come from the “Big Data” perspective of information management. But they are useful terms for describing what we are experiencing. Velocity, obviously, has to do with speed and the rate of change. Volume is about the quantum of information that we are dealing with, the ever increasing amount of data. And variety is about the spread, is about the different types of information.

And how do you deal with it? What strategies do you set for handling the volume, velocity and variety?. Well, there are three:

  1. is to ignore it and hope it goes away. We know that in the long run that that won’t work
  2. is to build bigger machines to handle it. To, if you will, meet the onrushing force with overwhelming power
  3. is to react like that whitewater kayaker. To read the flow and make your own path through it

What is your approach?
For more, visit Dellium Advisory, follow on Twitter, connect using LinkedIn, or review my IT-centric blog.

Know Your Future!

Futures, Futurist, Strategic Foresight

It’s true. You can tell what your future is going to be!

You can also tell what the future is going to be of that business you work for, that not-for-profit you support, that locale that you live in.

It’s going to pan out one of four ways:

  1. business as usual
  2. some transformative event
  3. breakdown and anarchy
  4. increasing restrictions and rules

Simple!

But, and here’s where strategic thinking, strategic foresight, and futures models come into play. By analysing each of these four possible paths for risks and opportunities you can be prepared.

And further, by thinking though how each of these might happen, and then taking appropriate action, you may be able to, if you will, change your future
For more, visit Dellium Advisory, follow on Twitter, connect using LinkedIn, or review my IT-centric blog.