CIPS CIO breakfast presentation March 5 2009. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity – that’s the world we live in – it’s a VUCA world. This talk will explore how IT can provide strategic vision and dilemma management that will enable their companies to maintain sustainable growth during this tumultuous economic downturn. The process of strategic leadership and decision making is more vital than ever, companies will either succeed or fail and it will happen faster than ever. As leaders, we cannot predict the future, but we can certainly provoke it by using a “foresight-to-insight-to-action” approach in sensing the future to compete in the present.

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