After 9/11 there was a strong uptake of futures methodologies, notably scenarios, recognising the uncertainties that organisations faced. At the same time, many futurists were developing new tools to aid thinking and action for an increasingly complex world.
In looking beyond the pandemic, organisations are faced with climate change, developments in technologies and changing work places and  differing values across different generations, just to identify a few challenges.
Faced with both complexity and uncertainty, this talk explores some of the  approaches to thinking long term and acting in the short term.
It is often said that we can learn more from our mistakes than we can from what worked in the past. However,  experience suggests that few organisations are  well equipped to avoid repeating past errors. The speaker will outline the lessons in both start ups and larger organisations that are rarely learned.