Author: Juan Landman

Would you allow your children, partner or parents to be admitted to a hospital with a record of killing 10% of the patients who undergo major surgery? Dr Ken Catchpole who specialises in understanding how people act in stressful situations was shocked to discover that the error rate in patient care after medical operations had been successfully completed was up to 10%. He compared this to other high risk industries and the military experiencing an error rate of 0.001%. He reported that “On an aircraft carrier you have hundreds of people, technology, explosives, fuel, and planes landing every couple of minutes – yet they rarely have accidents. Apply healthcare statistics and one in ten planes would be falling into the sea!” Research at 21 hospitals across the U.K. revealed that surgeons and their…

Today, companies face an array of daunting new challenges: the commoditisation of knowledge, the emergence of ultra-low cost competitors, the rapid growth of employee and customer power, unrelenting change and collapsing barriers to entry.   These unprecedented problems demand unprecedented solutions – solutions that will only emerge when top management learn to innovate as boldly in the area of leadership as they do around products, services and delivery.   The problem facing most Executive Teams is that they do not possess the experience or technology to create either strategic plans or a leadership culture which fully integrate the creation of sustainable competitive advantage and growth with energising the creativity and talents of their people.   We at FWI have built our business around Enabling executive teams to identify future niches…

Future Winners International Limited has evolved since it was founded in 1978 to become a leading exponent of twenty first century future studies and strategic game planning.   Our clients around the world report favourably on their ability to transform their organisations as successful enterprises despite the current uncompromising business environment characterised by unrelenting change, the commoditisation of knowledge, the emergence of ultra-low cost competitors, the rapid growth of customer power and employee expectations, collapsing barriers to entry, on-going mergers and the disappearance of boundaries to industries.Future Winners International has an excellent reputation for assisting our clients to: Generate scenarios of the futureIdentify and select niche markets with viable future potentialWrite motivational and meaningful vision goalsDevelop a Strategic GamePlan© using FWI technologies designed for this decade and the nextEnsure that…

I seldom recommend a book in this newsletter – especially one published as far back as 2005! I however recommend unreservedly that you should get your hands onto ‘The Singularity is Near’ by Ray Kurzweil even if only to read the first two chapters. Ray is possibly the world’s most famous serious futurist. In these two chapters he combines fifteen studies of the evolution of life from the big bang until the present. These studies were compiled by highly respected academics and organisations including The American Museum of Natural History, Encyclopedia Britannica, Scientific American, the biochemist Paul D. Boyer who won the Nobel physics prize in 1997, Carl Sagan and Phillip Tobias the world famous paleoanthropologist. He discovered an absolute fit of the milestones in evolution in each of the studies…