The 21st century business: success in a changing world

This article identifies six design principles that can inform the shape of businesses as they respond to the big external challenges brought about in the 21st century by technology, economics, values and resources.

The 21st century business: success in a changing world

Andrew CurryThe Futures Company

The changes brought about by technology, economics, values and resources are creating a world in which traditional business models are not fit for purpose. Andrew Curry describes the six principles that underpin these changes and provides signposts to the ways in which corporations must change.

Business is at a crossroads. A number of deep changes have combined in such a way that the businesses we have grown up with, and the business models that underpin them, face deep challenges. They are being reconstructed, from within and...

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