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inform issue #28 - 3rd of February 2009

 

Prescience Revisited

Dorenda Britten - Monday, January 19, 2009

The article that follows is one we wrote in December of 2005 for NZBusiness magazine. It was based on our reading of the economic climate at the time and on the ever-increasing prevalence of opportunism – rather than sustainable delivery of value – seen in global economies.

We didn’t see the credit crisis coming, nor did we expect the housing market in the US to bring the world to its knees so dramatically and so quickly.

But we did see the ‘storm’ coming, and the inherent ‘unsustainability’ of many commercial activities.

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Stanford Design Thinking Process

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