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Foreword

The world we live in is changing. While change is nothing new, the challenge we are now facing is that the pace of change has accelerated beyond all previous experience. Over the past century, it has advanced to such an extent that we can no longer anticipate how our lives (and particularly our working lives) might look – even in five years’ time. So what does this mean for us? I t means that the old rules don’t – and can’t – apply any more. We cannot continue to operate without a powerful and committed response to change; with business models that are outdated in today’s climate; with a playbook that was created decades before. Organizations need to rethink their structures, ways of working, and methods of leadership, seeing the challenge of change as an opportunity to be innovative. If organizations fail to adapt, to bridge the gap between the scale and pace of change around us and the change that must be implemented within the business, the future will threaten their very existence, just as it did for those organizations that now fill the graveyards of the obsolete.

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When you’re finished changing, you’re finished – Benjamin Franklin

Adapting is not an easy process, but in this white paper we will give you some guidelines to follow to set you up in the possible future world.

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