Making sense of the future so as to be able to act effectively within it. Become the master your organisation’s destiny in a world of emerging technology and opportunity where anything is possible.
There is simply no point in trying to just keep up with the change – you need to learn to become the organisation that will be most successful at extract the benefit from it.
Your future is not created by a never ending cascade of new technologies. It is a path to a destination you value… a road to the organisation you want to become.
Political theorist John Schaar described the future saying “The paths to it are not found but made. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.”
Future Making is about identifying the organisational capability and capacity that you need to build to be sufficiently effective at identifying and responding to meaningful value creation opportunity. You need to developed the capacity for “you to do you” really well.
Innovation and improvement is not accidental. Learning can be – but the quality practice of determining what is valuable to you, and whether your actions are optimised towards achieving that goal MUST be deliberative… or you will just be wasting your time.
The future is coming at us in ever increasing speeds. We cannot wait for it to arrive before determining what we want to be, or how we are going to get there.
Making ourselves capable of making the future is a task that starts today.
Themes Explored In This Keynote Address
Danny’s futurist foresight is a powerful meeting of the latest global research, the leading edge of enhanced professional disciplines, thousands of real-world observations of corporate behaviours, and his unique way of unpacking complex issues through systems thinking, economics, social philosophy, pragmatism, positivity… and humor.