Disruption Mapping provides a simple, intuitive system for organizing thoughts about a likely future development or trend and identifying possible long-term implications (positive and negative) in a structured but highly collaborative way. This course will help you think more deeply about the dynamics of disruption — anticipating future implications and exploring unintended consequences. As a result, you & your team will be better able to foresee future opportunities and emerging threats to your business.
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How do we reconcile the need to focus on short-term results with the critical importance of long-term planning and vision? How do we balance maintaining the core of the business with innovating at the edge? In an environment of increasing complexity and accelerating change, leaders face a class of challenges — polarities — which exist not as problems to be solved but rather as tensions to be managed. In this course you learn a highly practical framework to manage these tensions.
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In a world of accelerating change, where business models get disrupted daily, and your competition looks nothing like it used to, how do you not only stay relevant but leapfrog forward? The future of innovation today belongs to the crowd who can outperform and outcompete closed systems. You will learn from first-hand experience how to harness the power of decentralized ideas, resources, and skills; how to bridge untapped geographies and leverage innovation at the edges. This is the complete course Pascal teaches at various business schools.
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A world of accelerating change rewards leaders who can read the context, rapidly synthesize new information, and anticipate the second and third order implications of new developments and emerging trends. In just 25 min, we’ll help you level-up your futures-thinking with a foundation in one of our favorite practices: spotting and evaluating weak signals. These are the leading, peripheral indicators that can give you an early glimpse of the trends that come to define markets and shape futures. Learn to read them and leverage them as a practical futurist.
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Introduction to the Exponential Era [Audio Course]
The Exponential Era Field Guide is short audio course which gives a quick introduction, and a bit of history of the exponential era. Further, it provides a strong foundation into exponential technologies and thinking. It is a great place to start to get familiar with the exponential era terminology, its main developments and theories. We hope it’s an enlightening listen!
Question Generation Workshop Field Guide[PDF]
Incremental innovation essentially means coming up with slightly better answers to the same old questions. If you’re looking for radically new answers (and the creative breakthroughs they can bring), you need to start asking new and different questions. The Question Generation Workshop is a great way to kickstart this process and start building an inclusive practice of creative inquiry.
Signal Spotting Field Guide [PDF]
Signals are the early signs of trends that may grow to become driving forces that define markets, disrupt industries, and profoundly shape the ways we live and work. Learning to scan for signals and track emerging trends is a foundational part of foresight work and an essential tool in your futures thinking and leadership toolkit.
Strong Signal Canvas Field Guide [PDF]
Building on our Signal Spotting Field Guide, differentiating between weak and strong signals becomes a crucial effort in ones desire to gain a better understanding of the future. Many weak signals either fail to materialize into lasting change or do so at a much later point in time than commonly anticipated. To answer these questions, we developed this robust, simple to use framework.
MAP Decision Making Field Guide [PDF]
The be radical MAP (Multiple Alternative Perspective) Decision Making Field Guide, is a practical guide to efficient, clear and inclusive decision making. In our work with leaders and their teams globally, we have found a common desire for a simple and robust framework to ensure decisions are not only taken swiftly, but yield the best possible results. The guide is based on decades of experience working at and with some of the largest and most impactful organizations in the world.
The Common Agreement Field Guide [PDF]
Projects almost always begin with discussing the work to be done and the intended results. Almost no time at all is spent discussing and understanding 'how' the work will actually happen in a team. The Common Agreement is a co-created agreement established before a project begins to ensure everyone can bring their best skills and expertise, and the project is successfully completed.
Sitting Productively with Uncertainty [Article]
Sorting Strong Trends from Weak Signals [Article]
