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FutureStep

A strategic management process for navigating complexity and generating innovation

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A modular tool - its parts can be used independently or as a complete program

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FutureStep is a strategic management process that helps companies, especially large multinational adaptive organizations, integrate flexibility and responsiveness into every aspect of their activities.

FutureStep helps both concentrate on the future and live in the present. It is a modular tool, and parts can be used independently or as a complete program for guiding strategic decision making.

The FutureStep process is aimed at enabling organizations to meet the challenges of navigating a complex and uncertain future environment, by helping them to evolve as complex, intelligence systems. It focuses on what an organization can do in the present to increase its ability to operate in a sustainable way in the future.

 

  

 

 
   

Benefits
Enjoyed by Organizations Practicing FutureStep

Enhanced organizational intelligence, shown by improved decision quality and accelerated learning capability.

Greater clarity and robustness in strategic direction, with reduced risk;

Increased adaptiveness, speed and flexibility in responding appropriately to change;

Improved organizational design in which the shape or form of the organization mirrors its function and embodies its own transformational capabilities;

Stakeholder alignment around a shared, sustainable model of the business ecosystem with which the organization co-evolves.

 

  

 

 

 
   

AI-powered FutureStep

 

  

 
Strategic Planning: AI Enhances Future Forecasting  

AI enhances future forecasting. It enables organizations to simulate potential scenarios, spot and anticipate trends, optimize resources, and improve strategic planning speed dramatically, shifting from reactive to proactive decision-making.

 

 
   

AI-driven forecasting is applied across various domains:

Supply Chain: Predicting disruptions and optimizing logistics.

Finance: Stress-testing portfolios and projecting earnings.

Human Resources: Forecasting staffing needs and employee turnover.

Sales: Forecasting demand and competition... More

 

  

 
 

AI enhances Holistic Intelligence

Holistic intelligence is the ability to perceive systems as interconnected living organisms. In business, this means understanding how markets, technologies, people, incentives, and constraints interact. Artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a "holistic amplifier," expanding the strategist's field of vision.

  

Predictive Intelligence (PI)

5 What-Next Q&A

Example of 5WNs

Holistic Thinking

KoRe Models

  

 

 

 
   

Background

This approach to strategic management evolved through many years of practical experience with multinational organizations in several industries in Europe, North America and Asia. Organizations that have pioneered this kind of approach to strategic management include 3M, British Telecom (BT), the British National Health Service, Dutch Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, Jardine Matheson, Shell, State Farm Insurance, and the US Department of Defense.

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"In the case of complex adaptive systems, their schemata have consequences in the real world, which exert selection pressures back on the competition among the schemata, and those schemata that produce favorable results in the real world have a tendency to survive, or be promoted, and those that are less successful in the real world have a tendency to be demoted or disappear. In many situations, complexity may offer a selective advantage."  
 ~ Murray Gell-Mann