The Anticipatory Organization

Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage

Daniel Burrus

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781626344464
• eBook ISBN: 9781626344471
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Leadership
• Index: Business

Technology-driven change is accelerating at an exponential rate, but moving fast in the wrong direction will only get you into trouble faster! Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough. The Anticipatory Organization teaches you how to separate the Hard Trends that will happen, from the Soft Trends that might happen, allowing you to jump ahead with low risk and the confidence certainty can provide. Accelerate innovation and actively shape the future—before someone else does it for you! Digital transformation has divided us all into two camps: the disruptor and the disrupted. The Anticipatory Organization gives you the tools you need to see disruption before it happens, allowing you to turn change into advantage. In The Anticipatory Organization, Burrus shows us that the future is far more certain than we realize, and finding certainty in an uncertain world provides a big advantage for those who know how and where to look for it. Inspired by the dramatic results that organizations are experiencing from his award-winning learning system, The Anticipatory Organization offers a comprehensive way to identify game-changing opportunities. Using the principles of this proven model, you will learn how to elevate planning, accelerate innovation, and transform results by pinpointing and acting upon enormous opportunities waiting to be discovered. Readers will learn how to: • Separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen
• Anticipate disruptions, problems, and game-changing opportunities
• Identify and pre-solve predictable problems
• Accelerate innovation (both everyday innovation and exponential innovation)
• Pinpoint and act upon enormous untapped opportunities
?• Skip problems and barriers to succeed faster

Index

A

abundance factor (collaboration), 149, 153

accelerated results, 113. See also elevated planning; results

agility, value of, 2

Airbnb, 7, 120

Amazon

moving beyond competition, 66, 68, 73

struggle to keep up with change, 13

Anticipatory Mindset

defined, 167–68

encouraging, 52–54

Futureview Principle and, 104

opportunity management and, 94–95

risk management and, 74–76

Anticipatory Organization Model. See AO Model

Anticipatory Organization Video-Based

Learning System, 181–85

benefits of, 183

features, 182

overview, 181

reviews, 183–84

AO Model (Anticipatory Organization Model)

defined, 167

as everyday habit, 158–59

overview, 15–16

Apple

as disrupter, 132

iPhone

excitement level for, 39

Exponential Innovation, 59

Three Digital Accelerators and, 38

unknowability of future misconception and, 13–14

Redefining and Reinventing strategy, 67

Siri, 34–35, 37

assumptions (Soft Trends)

Hard Assumptions, 23, 27, 94, 174

Soft Assumptions, 23–24, 27, 94, 178

awareness of opportunities

execution of plans and, 120

innovation and, 46–47

B

Baby Boomers, 18, 24, 86–88

Bandwidth. See Burrus Law of Bandwidth

benchmarking, 64–65, 69

Bender, William, 184

Blackberry, 13–14, 48

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• SECTION ONE: Know What’s Next—Transform Planning
• SECTION TWO: Develop Opportunities—Transform Innovation
• SECTION THREE: Shape the Future—Transform Culture
• SECTION FOUR: Accelerate Success—Transform Results
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Appendix A: 25 Proven Strategies to Shape the Future
• Appendix B: Definition of Principles and Key Terms
• Appendix C: Anticipatory Organization Video-Based Learning System
• Index