Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

by Roger Spitz

Overview

Disruption's far-reaching effects are inevitable, bringing both unprecedented challenges and opportunities to creatively shape our futures.

Disrupt With Impact is the ultimate guide to thriving in today's complex business landscapes. It offers strategies that will allow you to navigate uncertainty and change through strategic decision-making.

Covering major challenges such as sustainability, AI, geopolitics and cybersecurity, this book is your compass for exploring the uncharted waters of the future. These paradigm shifts will redistribute trillions of dollars, presenting opportunities for immense value creation, while those clinging to business as usual face growing risks of value destruction. Through fascinating research and original frameworks, Disrupt With Impact offers the knowledge and confidence you need to lead your business through disruption.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398616882
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	09/24/2024
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Roger Spitz is a futurist, author, and President of Techistential, a foresight strategy consultancy. He also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute, a global education hub which empowers organizations and entrepreneurs. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, such as Fast Company, WIRED, and MIT Technology Review. He is based in San Francisco, USA.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction; * Section - ONE: Disruption has always existed – what’s different now?; ** Chapter - 01: Exploring the dual nature of disruption – Challenges and possibilities; ** Chapter - 02: Embracing new mindsets for thriving on uncertainty and disruption; ** Chapter - 03: Scanning the horizon – What’s changing and what’s staying the same; ** Chapter - 04: Tools for navigating and anticipating disruption; * Section - TWO: How to drive systems innovation and transformational change; ** Chapter - 05: Disruption as a springboard for creating impact and value; ** Chapter - 06: Harnessing systems innovation to solve our complex challenges; ** Chapter - 07: Greenaissance – Value creation for sustainable futures; ** Chapter - 08: The next chapter of digital disruption – Industries converge and new fields emerge; * Section - THREE: The future of artificial intelligence, strategic decision-making and technology; ** Chapter - 09: Evaluating next-order impacts of exponential technologies; ** Chapter - 10: Our AAA framework – A survival guide for staying relevant in the age of AI; ** Chapter - 11: Info-ruption – The internet of existence, cyber insecurity and disrupted information; * Section - FOUR: Unleash your disruptive thinking; ** Chapter - 12: The Disruptive Thinking Canvas – Invent the future today;

Editorial Reviews

"Uncertainty, disruptions, cascading change... Roger Spitz is uniquely qualified to address these challenges. Backed by fascinating research, practical frameworks, and his original Disruptive Thinking Canvas, Disrupt With Impact is your operating manual for unpredictability."

Cathy Hackl

"Roger Spitz has done it again! Disrupt With Impact is an indispensable guide for navigating today's unpredictable business landscape. Roger provides actionable strategies and profound insights that empower leaders to make tough decisions with confidence. Truly a must-read for anyone looking to thrive in the face of constant change."

Jake Sotiriadis

"A must-read for anyone navigating uncertainty. Roger Spitz masterfully equips decision-makers for the steep slopes, crevasses and hazards of the world's fast-changing environments. There are no better frameworks to help build resilience for the shocks while seizing the windows of opportunities as you creatively shape your future."

Benedikt Böhm

"Today, boards are operating in uncharted territory and navigating through unprecedented challenges and uncertainties. It is crucial for them to learn how to turn disruptions into opportunities, leveraging innovation and strategic foresight to drive sustainable growth and resilience. Disrupt with Impact is a perfect guide for our boardroom community. It provides comprehensive, sector-specific insights that are crucial for today's leaders. The book introduces new concepts for governance through engaging case studies and well-explained nuances."

Manoj K Raut

"A stimulating and future-focused leadership guide, Disrupt With Impact seeks to understand and leverage the world's unpredictability."

Foreword Clarion Review

"In his new book Disrupt With Impact, Roger Spitz, a world-leading global futurist and venture capitalist, combines rigorous analysis with practical advice to provide a roadmap for navigating this ever-evolving landscape of business and technology. His insights are timely and essential, which makes this book a valuable resource for executives, entrepreneurs or anyone seeking to thrive in disruptive times...In a world full of books on how to be successful in business, Disrupt With Impact rises to the top. Pure gold!"

Booktrib

"Packed with practical and realistic advice that is presented in a conversational and approachable style, Roger Spitz's Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World offers a workable roadmap for those seeking to both futureproof their business against disruptions and leverage those inevitable disruptions to secure growth and a competitive advantage."

San Francisco Book Review

"This is an engaging and very enlightening read. It's the kind of book you can always refer to in the future, and I'm sure the content will prove valuable to anyone in business, regardless of your industry."

Manhattan Book Review

2024-08-09
A guide to business and entrepreneurship designed for a world of accelerated change.

“The future does not exist today,” writes author, educator, and consultant Spitz, “so we have the opportunity to imagine it, shape it and navigate towards it.” In business, that navigation can be disrupted by any number of factors, from the infusion of new money to the cross-pollination of previously unrelated fields to new regulations to unpredictable outside shocks to the system (like the Covid-19 pandemic). Surveying all of these vectors of uncertainty, the author paraphrases inventor Charles Kettering by pointing out that everyone should be concerned about the future since we’re all going to be spending the rest of our lives there. Spitz analyzes several of these sorts of disruptions and proposes a plan for dealing with them: his “Disruptive Thinking Canvas,” which he describes as “a living process,” noting that “interpreting disruptions, scanning horizons and creating positive value doesn’t stop after you do it once.” The author outlines the Canvas in six steps: “Reframing disruptions,” “Scanning and mapping” (for anticipating possible disruptions), “Ideating” (“embrace new mindsets to harness uncertainty”), “Dissent and alignment,” “Decision-making and driving change,” and “Iterating” (“Apply changes, assess impacts, incorporate new information and utilize feedback”). Spitz, drawing on his own extensive experience as a business professional and on a wide array of outside sources (all carefully documented in the book’s notes), delves into all aspects of capitalizing on “the inherent flexibility of reversible decisions” in the face of uncertainty.

The text weaves all of this into a visually stimulating and interactive presentation, full of graphs, charts, insets, and bullet points. The author echoes many of the common odd narrative ticks of other business-motivation books, from ritualistic mentions of Warren Buffett and Elon Musk, who’s likened to Aristotle: “Thinking from first principles, he proved you can develop and manufacture commercially viable, cost-efficient rockets.” Putting these routine genuflections aside, Spitz has many thought-provoking concepts to share with aspiring entrepreneurs who might be worried about the next major disruption lurking where they least suspect it. The strongest theme running through the book is can-do optimism—the author’s confidence that uncertainty is something to be embraced and leveraged instead of dreaded is convincing. Being anticipatory does not require formal tools. Often, common sense, mindfulness and critical thinking will beat any tools (“Being in the world is being anticipatory”). Spitz is particularly compelling on the concept of the “metaruption,” which he describes as “a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions, including shifts in the notion of disruption itself.” These “metaruptions” defy all the rules, and here, as elsewhere, the author itemizes the opportunities that can accompany the “unparalleled messiness” of change. He brings a refreshing clarity to the discussion of all facets of disruption, from the deep causes to the long-term consequences, and though he sometimes burdens his prose with cliches (“While history may not repeat, it can rhyme”), the sheer energy of his presentation will give readers resistant to change plenty of stimulating new perspectives on its inevitability.

A well-illustrated and wide-ranging new approach to large- and small-scale disruptions in the business world.

Kirkus Reviews

"Makes the case for organizational leaders to adopt new ways to anticipate and act in an era of exponential change. Old methods no longer suffice in our hyperconnected world. Roger Spitz gives readers the tools to flourish through systemic disruption."

David Jonker

"Roger Spitz is a visionary in strategic foresight and systems innovation, whose insights have consistently pushed the boundaries of what's possible in business and technology. Having known him from Singularity University, I have seen firsthand his ability to inspire and challenge leaders to think deeply about sustainable futures. This book is a vital resource for anyone aiming to navigate and thrive amid disruption."

global technology leader Pinak Kiran Vedalankar

"A compelling book that illuminates the complexities of our uncertain world. Through engaging examples, Roger Spitz skillfully provides practical insights that resonate deeply with today's fast-paced environment. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your journey in strategic foresight, Disrupt With Impact provides tools to not only survive, but excel."

Quentin Ladetto

"Roger Spitz, with his unique multi-lens perspective, offers insights on embracing disruption as a frequent phenomenon that can both destroy and create value. Disrupt With Impact provides a practical roadmap for leaders aiming to strengthen their "impossibility muscles" and make the world a better place."

Doris Viljoen

"A roadmap to visionary leadership, and Roger Spitz is the guide we need. He encourages leaders to think not only about surviving the next wave of disruption but about shaping it to their advantage - and for the greater good."

Michael J Keegan

"Organizations more than ever need to be vigilant about navigating uncertainty and disruption - their relevancy is at stake if they don't! Roger Spitz's Disruptive Thinking Canvas is an essential practice all organizations need to employ if they want to shape the future with impact and be around to see it. This is the "go to" guidebook for businesses who want to successfully navigate the modern world."

Kara Cunzeman

"Combining strategic foresight and systems dynamics principles, Disrupt with Impact offers a framework and tools for confidently moving ahead in an uncertain world. Readers will find value in case studies on business themes from bluetech to open banking, lessons from successes and failures, and new opportunities. This book will help you to harness "gray rhino" challenges ahead in order to become a disruptive force for good - instead of being trampled."

author of The Gray Rhino Michele Wucker

"Few subjects are as crucial as those covered in Disrupt With Impact, and no one understands them better than Roger Spitz. As value is either destroyed or created through change, this book is essential reading for leadership teams and investors to ensure sustainable value creation in a fast-changing world."

Sebastian Bihari