The Disruption Game Plan: New rules for connected thinking on innovation and risk

by Ruth Murray-Webster, Eleanor Winton

Overview

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED TITLE***

Disruption is everywhere: it presents both great opportunities and significant threats.
Do you know how to shape your strategy to respond?
What if you had a game plan to navigate disruption?

The Disruption Game Plan presents a tried and tested framework to help senior leaders think differently about disruptive trends and emergent risks, and to act differently when making decisions, joining up thinking on innovation, risk, sustainability and strategy.

By revealing how we can more effectively deal with challenging business environments, this book will help any curious and ambitious senior leader to go beyond a short-term, fire-fighting response, and instead set out to ‘change the game’.

Ruth Murray-Webster is a consultant and expert in risk and organizational change. A former head of the Risk in the Boardroom practice for a major consultancy with extensive senior practitioner experience, Ruth now works with a wide range of public, private and third sector clients through her consultancy Potentiality UK to unlock the potential performance from uncertainty and change.

Eleanor Winton is a consultant and expert in disruption, innovation and foresight and the former head of the Future Institute for a major consultancy. She has extensive experience of working with senior teams to stimulate creative thought and action. Through her consultancy Foresightfully, Eleanor works with organizations to understand what the future might hold for them and to develop innovative strategies in response.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788602488
Publisher:	Practical Inspiration Publishing
Publication date:	05/18/2021
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

RUTH MURRAY-WEBSTER is a consultant and expert in risk and organizational change. A former head of the Risk in the Boardroom practice for a major consultancy with extensive senior practitioner experience, Ruth now works with a wide range of public, private and third sector clients through her consultancy Potentiality UK to unlock the potential performance from uncertainty and change.
ELEANOR WINTON is a consultant and expert in disruption, innovation and foresight and the former head of the Future Institute for a major consultancy. She has extensive experience of working with senior teams to stimulate creative thought and action. Through her consultancy Foresightfully, Eleanor works with organizations to understand what the future might hold for them and to develop innovative strategies in response.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Part 1 The Call to Action 1

Chapter 1 Why the need for a game plan? 3

Why do organizations need new rules? 10

The beginning of the end for profit at all costs? 11

What are the priorities for change? 14

A game plan for a disrupted world 17

Chapter 2 Conditions for success 19

What is making us predictably irrational? 20

Overcoming decision-making pitfalls 23

Our solution - a facilitated process to build your game plan 29

Part 2 Developing and Maintaining your Game Plan 31

Chapter 3 Stimulate and Motivate 33

Starting with the right question 34

The design mindset 37

Facilitation 40

Stimulus 46

Stimulate and Motivate: in summary 53

Things to watch out for - the 'jazz hands' effect 54

Chapter 4 Facilitate Debate 55

Focusing on value, from chain to cycle 56

How much uncertainty and change is too much? 66

Aligning on the vision and promising candidates 71

Facilitate Debate: in summary 80

Things to watch out for - don't substitute tempting for promising 82

Chapter 5 Innovate and Mitigate 83

Mindset for innovating and mitigating at strategic and tactical levels 86

Prioritizing and selecting investments from promising candidates 87

Reconciling the competing priorities of stakeholders 98

Organizing to deliver and dealing with barriers to change 100

Innovate and Mitigate: in summary 107

Things to watch out for - don't take your eye off the external environment 109

Chapter 6 Update and Anticipate 111

Monitoring and learning from the projects you've decided to invest in 114

Keeping an eye on the external environment 116

Integrating your Disruption Game Plan 119

Update and Anticipate: in summary 124

Things to watch out for - finishing a book and then not doing anything with what you've learned 126

Part 3 Getting Started 127

Chapter 7 What now? 129

Acknowledgements 131

Editorial Reviews

This is a powerful book – do not underestimate how much it will challenge the strategic thinking you might have on disruption, innovation and risk which can make it feel hard at first. But like most approaches that will lead to useful and tangible change, if you stick with it, you will reap the benefits. It’s packed with practical and detailed guidance and stories, illustrating how to make the Game Plan work for you and your organisation

HR Director

I had a chance to read ARC of this book and it has some thought provoking moments when you start working on your company's Disruption Game Plan. This plan is a framework that guides any company leader to create a new way to engage teams in innovation, support move outside comfort zone and drive team's engagement in creativity and disruption. There are different stories that support suggested concepts and it is easy to read through. Important of all is the encouragement to put the knowledge into action.

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