Current business environment requires new, proactive leadership culture. One of the mounting pressures on business leaders is the need to systematically manage uncertainty. Amidst complexity and change, good decisions require inputs of many stakeholders across the organization.
Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad note in their book "Competing for the Future" that on average, senior management is devoting less than 2.4 percent of its time to building a collective view of its firm as a whole for what markets the firm should serve, what technologies it should master...*
While the need to leverage collective understanding has never been greater, only a few companies can claim that they have mastered the art of Strategic Conversation.
Strategic dialogue is often sporadic and fragile and suffers from disconnects between short- and long-term perspectives, personal and divisional experiences and loyalties, as well as geographical and hierarchical divides.
Future Map provides a shared, real-time "holding environment" for strategy development and change management. It connects holistic, systematic, future-focused thinking to core management processes of the organization. It makes future strategies actionable and creates a Dynamic ScorecardTM of progress towards future objectives.
Future Map builds an inclusive, comprehensive Future Management System that drives and supports Anticipatory Leadership.
* Quoted from Anticipatory management cannot be compromised. by Harper, Stephen C., Glew, David J. Industrial Engineer • August, 2008