Alex Osterwalder from Arvetica has been commenting here at CPH127 before - his work over at Arvetica is highly relevant, not only for Private Banking Professionals, but business in general.
He just published a podcast with John Hagel about how strategy is formulated by most companies, and more interesting, how it should be done when coping with uncertainty and complexity.
Personally I believe that most companies are organized to handle different problems, and thereby also strategy, as is the reality of today. We are shifting away from handling complicated matters to coping with complex problems, and that with a rapidly shift and increase in speed and uncertainty.
I also believe that a shift in mindset is heavily needed. A shift towards a more adaptable mindset, a mindset where each and every individual in the organization sees control as a nice thing, but not needed always, where competencies like intuition and improvisation is highly valued, and where diversity is embraced.
But then again - maybe I’m wrong? What do you think?
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Hey Hans,
Great to see you blogging again! ! agree that mindset is often the key or the barrier to success…I’m always interested in new activities that help shift mindset (so far that toolkit involves getting people involved in design itself through activities like participatory design, field research, and prototyping, and design games; and in publicizing the success from small pilot projects to provide social proof that a shifted mindset can produce better results).
BTW, the permalinks for CPH127 are all broken - maybe you could fix them?
Hi Jess
Nice being in touch with you again 
I just went by nform - great site and approach. It got me thinking on how you maybe work with opening up mindset’s in your company? The list you mention is good, and I truly believe that everything starts in our head’s - like you. It’s a kind of mind setting exercise.
….We just moved to Wordpress, so there is still a few things to be done on the blog to make sure that everything is running okay. Please be patience