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Figure 7: Exhibit 2 from “Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company”, January 2021, McKinsey & Company, www.mckinsey.com. Copyright © 2022 McKinsey & Company. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
Figure 8: from The Global Risks Report, 17th Edition, Insight Report, © World Economic Forum
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Figures 11, 12, 13 and 14: from Simon Sinek's Start With Why? page 37. Sinek S. (2011)
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Figure 17: from Porter, M. (2008) Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, New York, Free Press.
Figure 18: from: Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework, Policy and Society; John Alford & Brian W. Head (2017)
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Figure 21: Future Generations Commissioner for Wales; https://www.futuregenerations.wales/
Figure 22: Rafael Ramirez and Angela Wilkinson, Oxford University press, 2016
Figures 24 - 28: based on Islands in the Sky by Matt Finch of mechanicaldolphin.com, derived from the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach".
Figure 30: © 2020 Sooner Safer Happier Ltd
Activity 19: Islands in the Sky by Matt Finch of mechanicaldolphin.com,
Table 5: Blythe, J. (2001) Essentials of marketing, 2nd edition, Harlow, Financial Times/Prentice Hall.
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