Thoughtpost Edge

Too often we imagine our companies and the markets in which they operate to be vast mechanistic clockworks. As a consequence we design organisations that are totally out of touch with today’s world. These relics from the past cling to 19^th century notions of management. They are caught napping by the speed of change, confused by unforseen events, and utterly baffled by new business models. Orthodoxy is rewarded in these companies while creativity is choked. Banality and blandness are preferred to uniqueness. Ruthlessness rampages over joy while lacklustre performance prevails over passionate enterprise. All of this need not be so.

Code, both digital and genomic, is dramatically changing patterns of human productivity and consumption. The global economy is essentially flows of information and transactions. Knowledge continues to expand at an unprecedented rate. Today it pays to be smart.

Meanwhile, our experience of the world is changing and with it the need to engage a different reality – global, innovative, connected, technologically literate and, above all else, collaborative.

We now know that what happens in organizational and community life also occurs in nature. Indeed, when conditions permit, organisations express almost every characteristic of viability in living systems - irrational and capricious yet dynamic, adaptive and astonishingly inventive.

Directed by Dr Richard David Hames, a leading strategist and one of the world’s most eminent corporate philosophers, Thoughtpost Edge works in collaboration with business and government organisations to address the new realities of globalisation. We do this by moderating strategic conversations focused on:

Explicitly shaping environments that are amenable to innovation and interfaces that are open to the possibility of exceptional performance
Deploying collaborative strategies to amplify brand resonance while capturing new spaces, dominating new markets and rendering competitors obsolete
Re-designing the business to be as nimble and as adaptive as change itself in order to enhance the organisation’s learning metabolism
Finding ways to liberate human capital and value innovation by focusing on people’s passions, intellect and imagination.

For more information contact:

Dr Richard Hames
E-mail:	richardhames@thoughtpost.com.au