Joel Barker's Implications Wheel ®
In today's dynamic business environment, where the future is anything but certain, unintended consequences happen to everybody and in every organization... and they almost always cost money to correct. Any organization that knows how to anticipate the long-term implications of change will have a HUGE advantage over those who do not.
Critical decision making requires a disciplined commitment to rapid and diligent exploration of the future, combined with the organizational flexibility to act early. The thing that is most disturbing about change is not the immediate consequences, everybody is good at thinking about those. It is the long-term consequences, the cascade of consequences that carry the most important implications.
Until recently organizations just 'did the best they could' as they considered the future. Now, for the first time in the UK, they can access a powerful strategic exploration tool called the Implications Wheel®. This tool can be applied to potential decisions to discover in a matter of hours what the long term implications of any proposed action or event might be. Not just the immediate implications of a decision, but also the 2nd and 3rd order implications - to ensure many opportunities or risks are uncovered.
The Implications Wheel® is the result of 30 years of applied research and development by Joel A. Barker a leading international business strategist. The technology combines advanced software with collaborative group wisdom to rapidly generate powerful insights into the consequences of any change. It works on such topics as:
- Innovations - both for client organizations and their competitors
- Emerging trends
- Monitoring and predicting competitor responses
- Changes in policy - both internal and external
- New laws and regulations at every level of government, and
- Significant events.
What types of organisations have already benefited from the Implications Wheel ®?
- Major corporations - Assessing the risk surrounding new product development and launch
- Government Organizations - for the evaluation of a major policy change
- Large corporations - for the evaluation of strategic options
- Small businesses - for understanding the implications of implementing a new product
- Not-for-profit organizations - with diverse stakeholder requirements
Implications Wheel is a registered trademark.
The Implications Wheel graphic is a trademark of Joel A. Barker.
More information can be found at the team's website www.implicationswheel.com. The site contains some introductory presentations.
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