2021-Paris-Steven-Spear

Conference Video|Duration: 30:22
November 3, 2021
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    Even before the social and economic disruptions of the pandemic, we were already in a period of non linear changes—huge advances in data sciences for retrospective (machine learning) and predictive (artificial intelligence) modeling and a revolution in biotech to name but a few all in the context of an international order trying to reconfigure its multipolarity and domestic situations being buffeted by once in a generation social fluxes. Non-linear change is particularly vexing; our past is abruptly a poor predictor of our future yet we still have to navigate ourselves and our organizations so they maintain a high degree of social relevance.

    Fortunately, even if we cannot extrapolate experience into prediction, we can discover where we need to go and how to get there by building mechanisms for fast and frequent exploration and prospecting of unfamiliar situations.  Done rigorously and reliably enough, we can push out quickly the frontiers of where we are comfortable and confident operating.

    These points about why and how to discover our paths forward in highly unfamiliar times will be illustrated by examples drawn from various sectors—high-tech, services, governmental and public sector operations, and others.  The objective is that participants will be exposed to a number of useful frameworks, the use of which in their own situations will offer clarity on how to manage in situations that are otherwise unfamiliar.
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    Even before the social and economic disruptions of the pandemic, we were already in a period of non linear changes—huge advances in data sciences for retrospective (machine learning) and predictive (artificial intelligence) modeling and a revolution in biotech to name but a few all in the context of an international order trying to reconfigure its multipolarity and domestic situations being buffeted by once in a generation social fluxes. Non-linear change is particularly vexing; our past is abruptly a poor predictor of our future yet we still have to navigate ourselves and our organizations so they maintain a high degree of social relevance.

    Fortunately, even if we cannot extrapolate experience into prediction, we can discover where we need to go and how to get there by building mechanisms for fast and frequent exploration and prospecting of unfamiliar situations.  Done rigorously and reliably enough, we can push out quickly the frontiers of where we are comfortable and confident operating.

    These points about why and how to discover our paths forward in highly unfamiliar times will be illustrated by examples drawn from various sectors—high-tech, services, governmental and public sector operations, and others.  The objective is that participants will be exposed to a number of useful frameworks, the use of which in their own situations will offer clarity on how to manage in situations that are otherwise unfamiliar.
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