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E-book Management and Visualisation : Seeing Beyond the Strategic
The aftermath of a global pandemic, warfare in Eastern Europe, increas-ingly uncertain supply chains, spiralling cost of living, populist politics and the consequences of disastrous climate change: all these challenges bring the uncertainty of a hostile world into our most immediate focus. What was once only known through history or television news reporting from a different continent is now– in varying degrees of severity– a daily reality for everyone. Many wits and some more serious reporters even draw upon references and imagery associated with the Four Horsemen of the Apoca-lypse to punctuate their commentaries (Crabtree 2022; Harris 2022). Such imagery is overly figurative, but the many examples of external threats that can be currentlyidentified confirm the presence of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) throughout our everyday experience (Fletcher and Griffiths 2020). These are ever-present risks to both organisa-tions and individuals (Bennet and Lemoine 2014). The presence of external VUCAin whatever form it assumes distracts from being able to effectively deal with the multiple smaller and more day-to-day challenges that we need to face, even if we know that these can be more easily managed (Baran and Woznyj 2020).In response to the evolution of VUCA, Grabmeier (2020) has further developed the observation to describe the contemporary situation as now being Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible (BANI). BANI does offer a more nuanced description of the many challenges we now face as well as providing a target for what we should be seeking to gain individu-ally, collectively and organisational from our actions.
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