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Navigating disruption

Disruption is no longer an exception. It’s a certainty. We live in an era where change is continuous, constant, and often chaotic. With this disruption comes complexity, but it doesn’t always arrive as a single, overwhelming force. Instead, disruption moves across a spectrum of intensity, shaping how businesses must respond.

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scanning the horizon

Too often, strategic foresight tools like environmental scanning are treated as a one-time task. It’s a box ticked in the early stages of strategic planning. The team gathers data, writes a summary, inserts it into a report—and moves on.

Job done.

Except it’s not.

Not if you’re leading in complexity.

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Getting Your Strategy House in Order

COVID showed us that business strategy was not up to the task of dealing with disruption.   While the pandemic showed us we needed to adapt when disruption hit we also needed to have another look at the way we built key governance documents – like a strategy. When we did this we realised that the traditional approach was not up to the job.

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