Hanging at Annabelle's with @gregarious and @suthakamal. They are trying to convince me that my idea of a new KcKinsey sort of strategy company won't work. I am holding out hope, though, no matter what they say tonight.
I am convinced that part of the answer is technological -- new tools -- and part is a shift away from client-specific projects toward larger trend-oriented initiatives. Clients would participate with thought leaders on activities and meetings linked to trend areas, like social software, green technology, new government, and media futures. An alternation of web and f2, large and small forums, closed and open events, diastole and systole, bringing together thought leaders and market leaders to collectively attack major issues.
This isn't a replacement for consulting, even strategic consulting. It's more what the Institute For The Future and other futurists might be involved in, but based on a more open and social model. But it's not about the future, its about the present.
At a recent event where I was working in a group involving a bunch of smart people, including my pal Jamais Cascio, the futurist, I stated that I wasn't a futurist, but a presentist.
So, I will refer to this idea as the Presentism Collective.
More to follow.
so, sort of like the "multi-client research" model cross-pollinated with the idea of a salon/junto club?
Posted by: christopher carfi | May 03, 2008 at 09:35 AM
We didn't say it wouldn't work... just that we need to give it more thought ;-)
Posted by: sutha kamal | May 06, 2008 at 11:39 PM
Chris - Exactly. More to follow in upcoming post.
Sutha - Actually, you didn't; it was Gregarious who was really down on it.
Posted by: Stowe Boyd | May 07, 2008 at 02:18 AM