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The Art and Science of Wargaming
For centuries, military leaders have used wargaming as a way to anticipate adversary actions and generate creative battlefield advantages. As the volume of data available to today’s leaders grows...
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How to Combat Threat with a Risk-Informed Cultural Mindset
The world is rapidly changing, and the threats to business and government are changing with it. This is particularly true for the threats to physical and information security systems in our companies...
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New Thinking Never Gets Old: The Innovation Mandate
We’ve been in a state of rapid change for decades. Much of what had been innovative is now ubiquitous. Just within the technology sector, some of the most impactful introductions have occurred in less...
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The Knowledge Age Organization Has No Ladder
Markets and people are more interconnected, global competition is more intense, demographics have shifted, and we have a whole new set of communication tools. Businesses and government entities are...
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Do You Know How to Structure Your Horizontal Organization?
In the first installment of this two-part series on the evolution and benefits of horizontal (flat) organizations, we looked at the transition from laddered Industrial Era structures to agile and...
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The Lifelong Learner: How Alvin Toffler Shaped the Future
Alvin Toffler, the namesake and founder of Toffler Associates passed away on June 27, 2016. The news spread quickly across the globe through social media, press coverage, and personal reflections. Many...
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Innovation Can’t Exist without Reinvigoration
The scale of innovation has thrust us into an era when ‘change or die’ is more than a platitude. Transformation is a constant imperative not just for Future Proofing®, but for day-to-day...
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The Upside of Armageddon Lies in the 'What if'
Pretty much everywhere you read, look, or listen, stories of advancement are met with reasons to think the sky is falling. Internet security is full of holes, our financial infrastructure is prone to...
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Balancing Privacy and Security in the Pokémon Go Era
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”~ Ben Franklin When Ben Franklin wrote those words almost 300 years ago, he was...
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Finding Your Place in the Innovation Ecosystem
The biosphere is the sum of all the ecosystems. It is alternatively fragile and incredibly resilient, based on the extent to which its components work in harmony. An innovation ecosystem is the sum of...
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These People Can Lead Your Innovation and Transformation
Most discussions of strong leaders reads like a Who’s Who of our time – Franklin Delano Roosevelt (and his wife, Eleanor, for that matter), Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela. The impact of these...
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Why it’s Change or Die in the Brave New Biodigital World
The Third Wave, which ushered in an era of realities like global hyper-connectivity, disintermediation, big data, and digitally driven collaboration, is ‘cresting’ toward another major disruption. With...
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A Billion Dollar (Shave Club) Case for Simplicity in Innovation
Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.~ Leonardo da VinciWhile it may seem counterintuitive in our era of rapid technological advancement, many of our most successful current innovation...
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Is Water the World’s Greatest Security Risk?
Hyperconnectivity, the broadening and strengthening network that is rapidly encompassing every human on the planet, has been a driving force of globalization. This spread has played a necessary role in...
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How Flash Mobs and Unions Reveal the Future of Consumer Rights
The 1973 story “Flash Crowd” describes an event in a future world in which an argument in a public location swells into a small riot. The news reports the event, spawning a social disruption that grows...
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On a Mission to Create Shared Citizenship in the Knowledge Age
We are all doing business together in the Knowledge Age. We have the ability and the drive to connect. As business leaders, we have a voice that resonates across boundaries of department, industry,...
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Bio-Digital Convergence: The Human as Critical Infrastructure?
Are humans the next critical infrastructure sector? Currently, humanity is being augmented or networked by somewhere around 14 billion connected devices and that number is increasing at an...
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Are You Certain You’re Prepared for Unpredictable Threat?
Terms like globalized, interconnected, and hyper-empowered are so trumpeted across the infinite 24-hour news hour cycle and media barrage that they have become part of the din – rather than the call to...
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What is the Right Education for the Emerging Global Workforce?
Standardized educational models in the United States have always reflected our current society and its workforce needs. So why is the majority of our school-aged demographic still engaged in a Second...
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Applying a Value Model to Innovation
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.– Ludwig van Beethoven_______ Music moves us, recalls memories, and holds a distinct feeling for each one of us. Live or recorded well, it...
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