Shaping the Future of Your Business : How To Enable Your Organisation To Manage Market Changes and Crises

Foreword by Olaf Mergili, CEO of Microplex Printware AG -- Management in medium-sized companies as a bottleneck? -- How innovative are medium-sized companies? -- About the (in)probability of being able to predict the future: Typical thinking errors, the role of chance in planning and why waiting is nevertheless not a serious option -- What SMEs can learn from other companies - or not (cases): the deep fall, tunnel vision, retreat instead of innovation, making the future an issue -- Preparing for the future: evolution - revolution - disruption? -- The swarm, the swarm bird and the consultant -- Ten steps to your own vision of the future -- Process and workshop design: a do-it-yourself guide -- Encore: The future process as a basis for crisis management. .