Events
Scenario Planning & Option Analysis - Intensive workshops in Singapore and Malaysia
Thursday 16 July 2009
The Asia Business Forum has engaged Strategic Futurist Marcus Barber to conduct two Scenario Planning & Option Analysis workshops in September in Malaysia and Singapore
The intensive two day programs are ideal for senior managers, directors and board members looking to gain greater insights into ways to understand the nature of change and how to prepare their organisations for a shifting operating environment.
The Asia Business Forum is one of the leading providers of high-end organisational training.
The program in Singapore will take place on the 7th and 8th of September at the Royal Plaza on Scotts Hotel. The brochure and booking information can be downloaded here
The program in Malaysia will take place on the 9th and 10th of September at the JW Marriott Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The brochure and booking information can be downloaded here
Marcus Barber is delighted to be involved with this program. "It is a great honor to be asked by the Asia Business Forum to conduct these workshops on their behalf - they have an excellent reputation for world class programs. I'm looking forward to working with some of Malaysia's and Singapore's smartest executives and organisational leaders and work with them to show that if they are more fully aware of events that might happen, they are better able to prepare for what will happen - the positive outcomes for their organisations are extensive."
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Friday 16 July 2010
A series of recent activities has me writing on the idea of 'future strategy' and how different organisations are approaching their future development. What is interesting is the strong sense that preparing for your potential future requires multiple paths forward, not a single 'home run'. To that end I've recently considered sporting bodies and local community driven programs which has triggered these 'thought bubbles'
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Monday 5 July 2010
Stephen Downes is one the handful of bloggers I follow consistently. I do so because Downes (unlike many others unfortunately) like to write about his thinking AS WELL AS promoting the thinking of others, whether or not he agrees with them. In that way you get a solid collection of alternative views within his field of endeavour (learning & teaching et al). The link below will take you to a presentation by David Harvey that walks you through an interesting interpretation of the Capitalist model and where we are at in the world affairs. Whether or not you agree with the content, it is highly recommended
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Monday 28 June 2010
Coming off what has been undoubtedly my busiest period (3 months) in the past decade, I'm in the throws of catching up on some light reading. I usually have at least two books on the go and my preference is for the books to be about diverse topics because it allows the mind to seek out random connections. I once 'solved' the nuclear fusion problem whilst reading books by Umberto Eco and John D Barrow. A physicist friend of mine suggested my idea was radical and yet theoretically possible. But I digress. Right now I have a wide combination - 'From Poverty to Peace' by Duncan Green looks at ways in which we can empower people to help themselves more effectively, whilst looking at the myriad of mistakes so commonly made in the area of 'aid'. 'New knowledge in Human Values' is an older book edited by Ambraham Maslow with a wide contribution of thoughts from the likes of Pitirim Sorokin, Dorothy Lee and Paul Tillich (among others) and is a walk through some of the thinking about Human Values emerging in the late 1950's. The chapters are appropriately dense undertakings and I'm finding it hard to stick with, especially as I'm more inclined to lean towards the model of Clare W Graves and his Value Systems Thoery; 'Coercion as Cure' by Thomas Szasz is a ripper of a book thus far, though I'm only a few chapters in, I can tell the quality of a book by how much 'tagging' I do within a text
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