Future Ready How to Master Business

This is a well-illustrated, non technical guide for managers which explains how to build or enhance their organisations' capability to anticipate and manage the future. It draws on scientific understanding of the processes we, as human beings, use to help us cope with the future and demonstrates how these techniques can be exploited to run businesses more effectively.Relating insights from biological and systems sciences and familiar situations in everyday life to the challenges faced by business in developing more effective management processes Demonstrating how to apply this knowledge practically The body of the book is written in a punchy and accessible style with plentiful illustrations, cases and examples... ...with optional 'panels' for those with a need for more technical detail/explanation/different learning styles Easy links for readers interested in exploring deeper performance management topics e.g. Beyond Budgeting

Steve Morlidge has 30 years of practical experience in designing and running performance management systems in Unilever, including 3 years as the lead of a global change project. He is a former Chairman of the European Beyond Budgeting Round Table and now works as an academic and as an independent consultant for a range of major companies. He is a prominent public speaker, drawing on his years of experience at the leading edge of performance. management thought and practice

Contact: steve.morlidge@satoripartners.co.uk
Web: www.satoripartners.co.uk.

Steve Player founder and managing director of The Player Group, has co-authored and edited five industry-leading cost and performance management books. He is program director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table in North America. He served as the Managing Partner of the Advanced Cost Management Team of a global accounting firm. He is a top ranked speaker and consultant helping clients implement leading edge practices. he also writes a monthly column on Finance Transformation.

Contact: steve@theplayergroup.com
Web: www.theplayergroup.com.

Table of Figures	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xxv
'Why?'	p. 1
Why Change? Everyone Knows the Trouble I've Seen	p. 3
Forecasting Disease, the Symptoms and the Remedy	p. 17
Principles	p. 33
Mastering Purpose - the Cassandra Paradox	p. 35
Mastering Time - Delay and Decision	p. 57
Mastering Models: Mapping the Future	p. 87
Mastering Measurement - Learning to Love Error	p. 125
Mastering Risks: How the Paranoid Survive	p. 151
'Praxis'	p. 179
Mastering Process: The Mother of Good Fortune	p. 183
Recipe for success: tips and traps	p. 183
Coordination in a complex system: how different can we be?	p. 198
'Whose job is it anyway?' Roles and responsibilities	p. 210
Transformation	p. 219
Implementation: Beginnings and Endings	p. 221
Beyond Forecasting: The Biggest Barrier	p. 233
Beyond Budgeting: A New Management Model?	p. 243
Conclusion: Reconnection	p. 257
Glossary	p. 261
Design Principles: A Summary	p. 267
Important Concepts in Systems and Cybernetics	p. 275
References	p. 289
Index	p. 295
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