Previously we’ve explored how to make it easier to predict the future in business, and how vision can be a powerful tool in planning for business success. In the final…
Scenario planning for a flexible future strategy
Richard Copley
Richard Copley is a transformation, programme, project, change and operations manager. A large part of his career has been with three international IT/business companies.
His main interests are in making strategy executable, and helping organisations gain strong alignment between their operations and their strategy. His consultancy work majors on strategy, operating models, and enterprise architecture.
His transformation and programme management work focuses on shaping and executing feasible pieces of work that take organisations through the change they want and need. Both types of work demand strong facilitation skills, and over the last 15 years Richard has used visual thinking in a number of different areas to support his work, but always to develop meaning, sense and commitment quickly for large and disparate teams, bodies and organisations.
Making it easier to predict the future in business
In our last post we reviewed the accuracy of some future workplace predictions from 1995. This time we’re considering the difficulty of prediction (and its futility?). Why is it important…
The workplace of the future: did we get it right in 1995?
There is plenty of discussion about what the workplace of the future might look like. When we talk about ‘workplace’ we mean both the physical environment and the socio-economic patterns…
Could less technology improve problem solving?
Hands-on in a high-tech world As we hurtle into a vast range of future worlds, each with their own number (5G, Web 3.0, Industry 4.0 etc) the past seems to…
What is agile in today’s workplace?
What is “agile”? The word “agile” has come a long way in the past two decades. For many of us, it crept into our consciousness as the title of a…
How does Scrum differ from Kanban?
Scrum versus Kanban (or is it Agile versus Lean versus Design Thinking?). Or is it why DevOps is impossible if you’re not Agile? Or….? Big questions all of them, no…
Tony Buzan – it makes you think
I opened my copy of The Times yesterday to read the sad news that Tony Buzan, the man who developed and then popularised the technique of mind mapping, has died.…
Every picture tells a story… a taxonomy of visual thinking methods
Could visual thinking have clarified the Brexit debate? Visual thinking methods can add clarity – even in the muddied waters of political debate. UK readers may well have caught the…
What is the difference between Lean and Six Sigma?
Lean and Six Sigma have been around for a long time now, so it’s perhaps foolish to think that some people don’t know what they are, what the difference is,…