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Riel Miller is a
specialist in long-run strategic thinking. For over two decades his
work has concentrated on how to assess and direct the potential for
socio-economic transformation in the private and public sectors. He is
one of the world’s leading practitioners of scenario methods and has
developed “hybrid strategic scenarios” for clients around the world.
His work covers topics such as the future of: money, public services,
education, the Internet, identity, information technology, the
knowledge society, etc.. Riel works closely with clients to design and
implement scenario processes that reveal the assumptions underlying
current policies and the potential, often hidden, in the world around
us today. Using an approach that Riel calls “rigorous imagining” he
helps build new decision making capabilities and ratchet-up the
innovative output of an organisation. From sector specific challenges,
like the future of cash for financial institutions, to more societal
challenges, like the future of globalisation in a learning intensive
society, Riel brings a wealth of experience, an extensive international
network and a solid reputation for creativity. |
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To experiment or not to experiment – that is the question.
Sunday, October 5th, 2008, Paris
We
are living a moment when the swirling clouds of evolutionary complexity
part, offering a glimpse of a landscape where three features stand out
and what needs to be done becomes clear. It is time to embrace
experimentalism.
The shocking
The first feature is that the
emperor has no clothes. The financial system’s detachment from the
“real economy” is evident for everyone to see. This is not an
artificial divide due to malice of forethought or some particular form
of pernicious greed. It is a common event in the history of firms and
sectors that get drawn away, initially by innovation and the good
profits that go with it, to a point where the core role of what they
produce is forgotten. There are famous examples of firms and indeed
even whole nations that lose sight of the essential, focusing on doing
things that end up being peripheral and ultimately non-resilient...
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