Rodenberg Tillman & Associates executes the Two days International Master Class Strategic Intelligence twice per year for the European market. With the Six Building Blocks™ all aspects are covered to become successful in strategic management and strategic intelligence. Our Master Class is applicable for professionals, managers, and leaders in international business from all various company functions: sales, marketing, strategy, innovation, business development, research & development, technology, purchasing, human resources and beyond. Every business individual who can’t just rely anymore on…
The ‘Holy Grail’ in forecasting is 51%. Imagine if it could be increased to 65%+. It is seen as incredible. However, we managed to do this with the crime rates of the City of Chicago, with the price of the Bitcoin 4-6 weeks ahead of the game and with the turning point of the “bull” market into the “bear” market at Wall Street in October 2018. We offer similar solutions with many other topics, which no other what-so-ever predictive analytics…
Our Market Intelligence professionals give indepth answers on your questions and issues the company is facing or will face the next couple of years. We deliver the insights & foresights on the dynamic changes in your organization’s business environment and concerns markets – customers – consumers – technology – research & development – competitors, business development & innovation, legislation and beyond. Change and innovation come in over 65% of all cases from outside your traditional and current markets. Therefore we…
The most effective way for an organization to implement its Intelligence process is to create a physical or virtual (MI7™) Company Radar Room that will allow people to work efficiently within this process. We can design & implement custom made Company Radar Rooms for your organization.
Rodenberg Tillman & Associates created a state of the art Knowledge Platform named MI7™, this Platform allows for easy Retrieving, Storing, Managing, Visualizing, Collaborating and Communicating of knowledge within your organization. MI7™ can be seen as your virtual Central Radar Room and be integrated into a physical Central Radar Room.
We provide different kinds of Audits. The Strategic Audit is a systematic process to define the requirements of the intelligence process. The challenge is to develop an intelligence process that accomplishes the major objectives of avoiding surprises, identifying market opportunities and minimising threats.
Over the years Rodenberg Tillman & Associates have created many types of Intelligence Tools that are used during different parts of the services provided. Some of these tools are also available to you and your organization. We can give you access to these tools and educate on how to use and implement these within your organization.
As part of Rodenberg Academy™, we provide different Master Classes and Webinars, from beginners to experts in Intelligence. With a proven track record, Rodenberg Tillman & Associates Educational services is the No1. provider of Intelligence Education within Europe. After completing your course, each attendee, will receive its Rodenberg Academy Certificate, which is Recognized by SCIP.
As part of Rodenberg Academy, Rodenberg Tillman & Associates provide twice per month our Free Intelligence Briefs. In these Intelligence Briefs different kinds of subjects are covert which include Predictive Foresights on events to come and identified Black Swans, Gray Swans and Gray Rhinos.
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In the previous post “Companies compete in arenas, not in sectors of industry” we explained how crucial it is to go beyond an industry analysis towards analyses of arenas. This means it is no longer enough to look at the industry sector in which your company competes. A further step Is required, namely conducting an analysis of the ‘competitive arena’.
Management needs to get out of its defensive mode and must be open to intelligence and welcoming to news, even if it is bad news. Companies need different systems for managing their core business and for managing new opportunities. Industry analysis is part of the core business, while arena analysis deals with new opportunities.
Choosing a strategy entails making decisions that explicitly cut off possibilities and options. It is a natural reaction to make the challenge less daunting by turning it into a problem that can be solved with tried and tested tools. The strategic plan is supported with detailed spreadsheets that project costs and revenues quite far into the future. At the end of this strategy process everyone feels much less scared; so this is about coping with fear of the unknown.
We have reported on the continuous threats to banks, and have identified that these are not Black, but Grey Swans. Black swans are large-scale unpredictable and irregular events of massive consequence for which we hardly can prepare ourselves. Grey Swans, on the other hand, are events which have a very high impact, but one for which organizations are able to prepare themselves. Banking is such a huge Grey Swan. Why is this?
You will have the ability to out-think your rivals in the marketplace if your company is able to observe emerging trends before its competition does. A key challenge is to organize the early warning signs of critical changes.
Can you imagine that five years after the financial crisis, the financial system in Europe has still not yet improved? Banks still continue to package ‘risky financial products’ into special entities. Our bankers still behave the same as they did before the financial crisis. Why is this so? Bankers think they are better protected against the next financial crisis, because they have a higher percentage of equity on total assets. It’s business as usual all over again.
Peter Diamandis founded the prestigious US Singularity University, active in research on new technologies and author of the bestseller “Abundance”. One of his visions is that technology developments do not just follow the linear curve of growth, but do, however, follow the curve exponentially. Many Boards underestimate the speed of technology change and when this happens exponentially the company loses ground. There are numerous examples where this occurs, the latest being Blackberry and Nokia.
In November 2013, Professor Admati was in Amsterdam presenting her book “The Bankers’ New Clothes” and speaking about the false lobby of the Dutch National Employer’s Organization VNO-NCW on Dutch banks. The professor sees herself as “a voice in the wilderness” because banks in the Netherlands and Europe want to keep to the 3% requirement of equity on total assets.
How can these systems-based organizations survive, when inspiration, passion, enthusiasm, motivation have faded away a long time ago? These organizations now jump on ‘big data’, however, although big data can gradually improve our abilities as we work with it, it does not grant instant omniscience, and is not an automatic cornucopia or substitute for insight. We have a much more crucial phenomenon available to us these days, ‘open data’.
One cannot do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and expect to be in business tomorrow! Do you want to learn new methods, new insights and foresight, new perspectives, and techniques, to get motivated, inspired and learn how to compete successfully in the future? Why is this of importance? The best ideas in the world are not in your head, your organization, or your industry: most come from looking around.
