1. How to Spot and Cope with
Emerging Transitions in
Complex Systems for
Organizational Stability
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12:00 Noon Eastern /// Wednesday 20 March 2013
~ featuring ~
Eric Garland Dr. Craig Fleisher
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3. Eric Garland works with leaders about how to manage
big changes to the global economy. He also plays bass.
Connect with Eric via:
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Eric Garland
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4. AGENDA
Defining “The Transition” and why it is
changing intelligence so radically
Suggested tools for advanced organizational
understanding
Q&A
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5. MANAGING THE POST-GROWTH ERA
One of the biggest problems in our managerial
environment is a secular end to the growth of
consumption in our economies
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6. MANAGING THE POST-GROWTH ERA
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7. MANAGING THE POST-GROWTH ERA
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8. Intelligence: Then and now
We understand the narrative, we misunderstand the
details
Narrative: Economic growth, globalization
Details (unknown): Individual competitors
We understand (some) details, we misunderstand the
narrative
Details: competitor behavior that looks similar
Narrative: ??? Post-growth? Knowledge
economy? Singularity? Yard sales? What?
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9. INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENT
The shock from this economic change has a
significant intellectual impact – a Crisis of Authority
To whom should we listen, and why?
Who can predict accurately – and should we
base major decisions on their speculation?
Old problem: paucity of information
New problem: paucity of analysis
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10. AUTHORITIES AT WORK
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11. AUTHORITIES AT WORK
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12. AUTHORITIES AT WORK
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13. AUTHORITARIAN INTELLIGENCE
The age of authoritarian intelligence was predicated on
STABILITY
Assumed non-stop growth (except for business cycle
recessions)
Assumed “best practices” that could be applied across
industries and companies of all types
Last Gen intelligence was based on institutional authority
One intelligence source with “executive buy-in”
Reporting structure made to look like media authorities
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14. LAST GEN INTELLIGENCE FAILS
They say “nobody could see it coming” because of
failure of structure, not of analysis in general
Last Gen analysis fails at several levels
Models are built around 1980s competition and
1990s risk (“competitors” and “disruption”)
Reporting structures have insufficient authority
to drive decision making through “brute force”
Bureacracies designed to insulate people from
failure, not sensitize them to failure
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15. NEXT GENERATION ANALYSIS
The next generation of intelligence must drive
companies to manage the emergence of opportunities
and threats in a complex, dynamic system
Next Gen Analysis will require
Post-authoritarian view
Peer to peer structure
One-size-fits-one
Iterative metrics – constant analysis of “is this
driving value?”
Accountability, not blame
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16. BROAD THINKING STILL RULES
Threats and opportunities continue to come from disruptions not
typically included in Porterian competitive models
GOOD OL’ STEEP:
Social: changing consumer values, generational
differences
Technological: product substitutions (This is still
Porter!)
Economics: Wealth inequality, wage suppression,
systemic breakdown (Europe, Japan, U.S.)
Ecological: unpredictable climate scenarios (New York
underwater, etc.)
Politics: Unrest (Arab Spring), policy shifts (Estonia,
Haiti), geopolitical tension (Iran, Pakistan, Central Asia)
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17. FORGET AUTHORITY, CHERISH THE ANALYST
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18. TRACK DISRUPTIONS BEYOND THE “NEWS CYCLE”
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19. DEBATES TRUMP REPORTS
WRONG,
WRONG
BUT MIGHT GET LESS
WRONG OVER TIME
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20. VALUE DRIVEN INTELLIGENCE STRUCTURE
Marketing
CEO CIO
CEO
Design
Consultants
INTEL
When you need to add value
All the time
to a specific project
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21. Questions, Commentary & Content
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22. Eric Garland works with leaders about how to manage
big changes to the global economy. He also plays bass.
Connect with Eric via:
Twitter: @ericgarland
Web: http://www.ericgarland.co
Web: http://www.transitionistas.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EricGarlandFuture
Email: Eric@Ericgarland.co
Eric Garland
Author, analyst, curmudgeon
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