Governance - the overlooked route to transformation: How can we best organise for change? - The Futures Centre

As a new leader or entrepreneur, rather than having a crystal ball and knowing the future of your company, your job as a leader should be to design the systems to allow for discovery. Planning for discovery is a powerful way to help us navigate through uncertainty and can make organizations nimble and powerful.

The future can’t be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being. Systems can’t be controlled, but they can be designed and redesigned. We can’t surge forward with certainty into a world of no surprises, but we can expect surprises and learn from them and even profit from them. We can’t impose our will on a system. We can lis

Socialstructed governance, as exemplified in the New Agora scenario, has four key elements: rich and open data for making informed decisions; sophisticated decision-support tools for exploring alternatives and uncovering complex interdependencies; engagement platforms for wide citizen involvement and deliberation; and microparticipation of regular