The Age of Opportunity: The New Era of Innovation for Business, Technology, and Society

The Age of OpportunityThe New Era of Innovation for

Business, Technology, and Society

Our present-day tools, models, and processes

are quickly

becoming

Industrial Age relics...

Something fundamental has changed!

“All that was ‘normal’ has now evaporated; we have entered

postnormal times, the in-between

period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have not yet

emerged, and nothing really

makes sense.”

Ziauddin Sardar, The City University, London

We have entered the...Postnormal Economy

{Complexity

ChaosContradictionOpen-Sourced

DisruptiveNetworked

CollaborativeUncertaintyResilience

Imagination

“We must reduce complexity in order to

innovate.”

“We must embrace complexity in order to

innovate.”

before the shift after the shift

7 Critical Value Shifts for Organizational Culture in the Postnormal Future

Open Systems

Pattern & Sense-Making

Multiples

Meshing

Resilience

Organic

Futures

“In an age of ever increasing

complexity & ambiguity,

linear thinking & simple

strategies will no longer work. Our interconnected world has created an environment where

learning and acting from multiples perspectives is

imperative for success.”

The Avatar Future:

Telepresence, Human/Machine

Interface, & RoboticsAreas of Impact:

•Technology•Medicine•Human Resources•Talent & Work

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“This is a move from

top-down‘command & control’

business to seeing more

power placed in the hands of individuals,

including crowdsourcing, social networking, open innovation, &

solopreneurs.”

“VirFlex”Virtual Geography & Location Flexible Work Hours

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What does this do to the concepts of “work,” “workplace,” & “business,” not to mention the idea of the “city?”

The “VirFlex” Future Areas of Impact:

•Work•Talent Development•Business Development•City Development•Innovation•Collaboration


... Near Field Communication

The Communications

FutureAreas of Impact:

•Technology•Innovation•Money•Banking & Finances•Data & Information•City Development•Retail


“We have moved from sustainability to resilience,

needing the ability to adapt & be flexible in the face of unfamiliar landscapes. Business

cannot rely on old strategies, but must learn how to be

robust in the face of change.”

"�� has become so tied up in

intellectual knots that it has the

�� of making things

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Neal Stephenson on “Getting Big Things Done.”


The Gami!cation of Business

If "customer engagement" is the super metric

of the next decade, then

"gami!cation" is its elixir.

The “Gamified” FutureAreas of Impact:

•Talent Assessment•Technology•Consumer Insights•Consumption•Data & Analytics•Marketing•Job Creation•Governance•Innovation•Social Media•Health & Medicine


“Gone are the days when we could separate various

academic & professional disciplines in order to make sense of our world & get the job done. We are finding that

it’s in the “spaces-in-between” that the

solutions to our greatest challenges exist & new ways of

operating are emerging.”

The Hybrid Future

The “meshing” of physical and virtual/digital worlds,

resulting in the co-evolution of humanity and

technology...

...impacting the way we govern, do business,

perceive social interaction, and shape our world.

Areas of Impact:

•Technology•Work

•Data•Insights

•Social Media•Innovation

The “Sensored”

Future

Areas of Impact:

•Health & Medicine•Talent Assessment•Consumer Tech•Communications•Consumer Insights•Product Development•Data & Analytics•Marketing


“People aren’t machines. Nonetheless, we’ve tried very hard to build our businesses in a mechanical fashion, like cogs in a clock. Humans are organic – living, breathing,

and often messy. We thrive in environments filled with

purpose, deep meaning, creativity,

and connection.”

The Holistic Future

Areas of Impact:

•Work and Talent•Innovation and Creativity•Technology•Consumption

“Our new world demands that

we look past the “tip of the iceberg” to see patterns between

seemingly unrelated events & trends,

making deep sense out of our converging systems.”

The Generative

FutureAreas of Impact:

•City Development

•Consumer Insights

•Technology

•Consumption

•Innovation

•Data & Analytics

•Marketing

•Job Creation

•Governance

•Social Media

•Energy

•Health & Medicine

Using exponentially accelerating technology and “big data” clusters to create cities & workforces that are equitable, inclusive, citizen-centric, and hubs of innovation.

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Futures

“We are used to depending on hindsight to run our businesses,

schools, & countries, but this can no longer be our practice in

a rapidly changing world. Our leaders must develop the skill of

identifying emerging issues, building alternative scenarios, &

creating transformational

futures.”

You can't have a better tomorrow if

you're only thinking about yesterday.

Those who can look ahead with foresight are better equipped to face change and harness opportunity, since

they know which decisions today might open up new doors tomorrow.

Applying foresight thinking can turn a

complex and unclear world into

a map of new innovation, opportunities, and possibilities.

Why Is Futures Thinking Critical To The Success Of Innovation In The Postnormal Economy?

Foresight and Innovation at Stanford University

Kedge is a minority-owned foresight, innovation, creativity, and strategic design consultancy. We help our clients to thrive in a world of complex ideas and practices, uncover emerging trends on the horizon that will impact their business, and discover unseen opportunities for strategic advantage and development.

Yvette Montero Salvatico, Partner/Principal Holding a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from the University of Florida, Yvette has over 15 years of corporate experience with large, multi-national firms such as Kimberly-Clark and The Walt Disney Company. Before becoming a partner at Kedge, she lead the effort to establish Future Workforce Insights at the Walt Disney Company, identifying future workforce trends and leveraging foresight models and techniques to assess potential threats and impacts, emerging ideas, and exciting opportunities for the organization. Yvette is an experienced speaker, addressing large audiences on topics such as business policy, diversity, and foresight.

Frank Spencer, Partner/Principal Prior to founding Kedge, Frank worked for 15 years as a leadership coach and developer with entrepreneurs, social communities, networking initiatives and SMEs, helping them to advance human development, local and global innovation, and open-source collaboration. He holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight from Regent University, and is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and the World Futures Studies Federation. With a strong background in both business and academic foresight, Frank taught a course on futures and foresight for developing solutions to wicked problems at the Duke TIP Institutes; is on the organizing team that is developing an MSc in Foresight and Innovation at ISTIA/The University of Angers in France; and has worked on strategic foresight projects for companies such as Kraft, Mars, Marriott, and The Walt Disney Company.

Yvette Montero Salvatico Frank W. Spencer, IV Principal, Kedge, LLC Principal, Kedge, LLC 2905 Boat Dock Road 12 Drake Drive Kissimmee, Florida 34746 Savannah, Georgia 31406 407-973-1172 912-660-6726 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.kedgefutures.com

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