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The Future By Design, Not Default
 The 'CEO Series' at the Annual Meeting 2006 in Davos were a series of sessions and workshops allowing a small number of key executives to explore in more detail the emerging themes, risks and opportunities of the global economy.
Reports on this tremendously valuable series of workshops appeared on the website of the Financial Times as part of their Annual Meeting coverage. FT European edition editor John Thornhill's reports on the workshops have been reproduced below with the kind permission of the Financial Times.
Each workshop featured simulations and scenarios allowing CEOs to reveal and interact with the ‘whole system’ – the organization and the global environment – in an intense, timely fashion. Each workshop tasked CEOs with managing disruptions and designing strategies that responded to emerging risks and systemic changes.
By actively co-designing solutions with peers, participants learned what it will take for their corporations to succeed in a world of perpetual disruptive situations.
In order to have diverse groups come together and solve complex, systemic problems, the CEO Series was hosted by the WorkSpace, a special interactive environment including multimedia tools and processes that promote innovation and a high degree of creativity and collaboration.
Each workshop was designed in such a way that participants would not only wrestle with concrete challenges critical to the Creative Economy but also experience the iterative and collaborative design process while working - a process that ensured the creation of a future by design and not default.
Read the full report of the CEO Series in the private area of the World Economic Forum website.
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