We’re Doing Business in a World of Hyper-Change
How Will You Adapt Your Strategy?
Contact us about a “review and renew” of your organization’s way ahead
Disruption is the norm of today and tomorrow. Organizations need new ways to navigate.
In typical times, most leaders focus most of their actions on present-day execution of their operations and plans, and a portion of their time thinking about the organization’s future.
We’re not in typical times. Leaders in every type of organization are in the throes of hyper-change in their operating environment.
In atypical times, leaders still need to keep their eye on the ball of current operations, but with a different slant – one that recognizes that your strategy likely is no longer fit to purpose.
And they need to boost the thinking they’re devoting to the future, and to adapting their plans to what’s changing around them.
For most organizations, it’s a time to look ahead with foresight and align to the “new new.”
Some powerful drivers of change are making big marks on your business environment.
AI adoption has accelerated dramatically, reshaping industries, workforce expectations, and competition. Global private investment in AI was $252 billion in 2024, a record high and 26% growth over 2023. We’ll see a projected elimination of 83 million jobs worldwide by 2027, offset by creation of 69 million new ones.
Businesses face intensifying climate impacts, including economic losses from extreme weather and natural disasters (over $162B in the first half 2025 alone), increased operational costs (energy, water), and significant supply chain disruptions. At the same time, technologies and business innovations that support climate resilience represent new addressable markets projected at $600 billion to $1 trillion by 2030.
Now five years since the COVID-19 shutdowns, remote work is no longer a trend, it’s a transformation – and one that’s now increasingly divisive. 64% of workers would quit or start looking for a new job if their employer stopped allowing remote or hybrid work, but 61% of US companies have recently put policies in place requiring employees to “return-to-office” a minimum number of days each week.
Cyber technologies are the lifeblood of every organization, and growing cyber vulnerabilities pose substantial, even existential, risks. In 2024 a software update by cyber security firm CrowdStrike crashed systems worldwide, including hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies, resulting in more than $5 billion in losses and $1.5 billion in insurance payouts.
You already have a strategy –
how do you need to adapt it?
How do we create sustainable new opportunities in a volatile economy that’s globalizing and localizing all at once?
How do we create working conditions that serve our people’s needs and engagement as well as the needs of the business?
How do create new kinds of connections with customers and stakeholders and
serve them in innovative new ways?
It starts with a fresh look at how you’re charting your future – we can help.
Conditions are changing –
but not your aspirations,
or your purpose.
If you’re like most organizations, rising to the disruptive challenges and opportunities is daunting. Staying true to the mission while positioning for what’s next is a hard balance to craft. The right approach to strategy in a time of hyper-change can rally your team to untold heights. Now is the time when focusing on the future is most important.
Gallup research shows that when employees are enthusiastic about the future, seven in ten are engaged at work. When they aren’t, only one in 100 is engaged. When leaders connect their employees to future purpose, they are more than 700% more likely to be highly engaged. And other studies suggest that inspired employees are 50% more productive than even those with a high degree of employee engagement.
A fresh look now at your strategy is essential to reinvigorate the inspiration that can fuel your organization in challenging times. How can you adapt your strategy while preserving its essence and intent? How can you realign goals, resources, and initiatives, not reactively, but in anticipation of what’s next? It won’t be easy – but strategy never is.
We’ll help you bring your future into clear view.
Our Approach
Our approach begins with a review of what you’re doing and pursuing now to meet your organization’s purpose, through the lens of the trends already upending you, as well as other changes that our ongoing scanning tells us are “over the horizon.”
We look at the impacts of these changes, trends, and emerging signals on your current goals and objectives … on your initiatives underway and planned to achieve those goals … and on the critical enablers that your strategy relies on for success.
From there we can help you identify what should be next:
Updated goals, objectives, and initiatives – and new ones that may not have been possible before.
Alternatives for enabling your new way ahead.
Your “business narrative” for the future.