For almost 15 years we have been witnessing a fundamental shift in how we do business, how we live and how we envision the world. Some have referred to this as a Paradigm Shift (Senge, 1991) brought on by cheaper and more accessible technologies (Ashkenas et al. 1995). As business people, we are constantly faced with solving problems and driving results, but that task is becoming more difficult because the lay of the land has changed and is going to continue to change – for everybody and every industry. 

The fact that change and the unknown will have a deep impact on decision makers is not new, in fact Sun Tzu noted this almost 2000 years ago in the Art of War 

“We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country – its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.”

Our challenge is to find new ways to understand and model our environment in ways that will provide useful and relevant insight. In this blog we are going...