What if culture is the solution: Big Pictures 005

Some of the requirements for building better big pictures are falling into place. We are creating ecosystems, a veritable culture of innovation.

As we get older, we seek a bigger picture than a school boy. We learn our lines and something about the rest of the world around us, the community, the economy, the profession, we occupy. We become more worldly. Until recently this was enough for a lot of people. All they really cared about was a rough idea of the world around them. A big picture, ... See more

most important we need to put our big picture capability to work on the problems that now haunt us. Most of these problems are systemic. Their causes are deep and multiple.

Bigger pictures should eventually give birth to a profession of specialists. These could look like McKinsey consultants, but these people leave so much out of the problem-set that I find it hard to think of them as big picture experts. There was a moment when “design thinking” looked precisely like the profession that would be good at big pictures.... See more