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The Academy of Business Futures

A strong correlation exists between the digital and innovation fluency of management teams and the performance of the business relative to its peers. Winning businesses are increasingly embarking on digital fluency programs as a business performance accelerant. Future-proofing a workforce and their respective leadership teams by bolstering their digital and innovation fluency levels on topics related to the rapidly changing contexts of the digital economy, represents a high-return and critical investment that all companies seeking to compete in an increasingly digital future must make. Top management teams and their respective resources perform better when they have good mental models, frameworks, and practical toolkits to guide them through digital constructs that they are challenged with. To drive successful digital and innovation initiatives, organisations need to be supported by the right leadership mindset, which results in the correct organisational behaviours.

 

The Academy of Business Futures provides organisations with a structured and dynamic fluency capability, delivered by leading and recognised experts who share their real, practical, and hard-earned experience, insight, models, and interpretations of new trends.

Digital & Innovation Mental Models

We provide access to critical digital transformation and innovation mental models and frameworks, that leaders must be fluent in to navigate the modern economy. These are based on a blend of research and trends, with authentic experience, and delivered by seasoned digital and innovation leaders. This offers the appropriate stimulus to re-thinking how a leader’s role, business, industry and economy must function into the future.

Activation Bootcamps

We re-frame the complexity of digital and innovation, through a structured combination of mental models, methodologies and actionable insights, providing “how to…” pathways for activating new initiatives or solving old challenges. These bootcamps are delivered through topical deep dives with domain experts who provide interactive perspectives, encourage engagement and debate, as part of the learning activities.

Immersive Work Sessions

We catalyse insight to action through activating the newly developed Digital and Innovation toolkits (from the previous pillars) with a practical and structured intervention to address opportunities or solve for real challenges. New learnings are put to work to create immediate and tangible value. These action-based learnings drive accountability and are repeatable into the rest of the business.

Custom Fluency Programmes

We work with organisation to customise and integrate fluency programmes to address their leadership or organisational requirements. We have established a 3-pillar fluency programme, that guides participants from developing digital and innovation mental models, to understanding the correct use and deployment of methodologies and frameworks, and onto their practical application in the workspace. Programmes are customisable within or across the pillars.