WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

High Beam leadership requires developing a High Beam strategy, one that builds on the ability to spot trends and react to them. It requires being able to take advantage of a trend or defend against its negative impact. Becoming a High Beam leader takes effort. The process involves staying current on three types of trends: organizational, industry, and macro, while tying these trends to your strategy and developing a robust investment portfolio.

1// PROACTIVE HIGH BEAM STRATEGY

If you cannot spot upcoming trends you cannot react to them quickly enough. Being a High Beam leader means you can leverage emerging trends to your advantage to be a leader rather than a follower. Every organization needs High Beam leadership to survive and outmaneuver the competition.

2// HIGH BEAM TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT

The business leaders who adopt and invest in a High Beam strategy are the ones who can see the furthest into the future, anticipate what lies ahead, and push their organizations at high speeds. In today’s high velocity environment, low-beam strategy just won’t cut it.

HOW DOES FPOV HELP?

Our High Beam Strategy Workshop is designed to teach organizations to better incorporate elements of the future that will have a big impact on results, and prepare a plan. Our process is a framework that teams can use to plan for the future in a concise and disciplined way. This is an increasingly important need because the velocity of the economy and social trends are increasing and the time to adjust elements of a strategy is shrinking. Becoming a High Beam leader will require changing the way you view the world and your industry. Future Point of View offers tools and techniques for adopting the Highbeam methodology, that includes teaching ways leaders can begin to:

• Identify Trends – Forecast trends in your industry that will be impactful
• Create a View of the Future – Build an illustration of what the future will look like in your industry
• Understand the Concept of Rivers of Information® and Work to Form a River – A River of Information is a stream of content that you build to develop your IQ on a subject or subjects (i.e. machine intelligence or data activation) that will help you develop your High Beam abilities
• Creating an Action Plan – Create a blueprint on how to guide your organization into this future and seize opportunities for growth
• Communicate this Vision with Employees/Staff/Co-Workers – Share this vision with those around you to inspire and motivate the whole organization