Recent Press

Recent Press

The role of multilateral and donor organizations in combating poverty is ever evolving alongside that of corporations. The past decade has seen increased recognition of market-based solutions. One encouraging sign? Upon taking office this summer Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, quickly invited in Michael Porter to talk about shared value concepts.

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Reos Partners is pleased to be working with the Rocky Mountain Institute on the Electricity Innovation Lab (e-Lab), a state-of-the-art forum for collaborative innovation to accelerate the transformation of the U.S. electricity system to a more efficient, renewable, and affordable future. More than 30 participants including utilities, technology providers, NGOs, customers, and regulators, are meeting in San Diego to kick-off this multi-year effort.

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Reos Partners is pleased to announce that Adam Kahane’s new book, Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future will be published in September by Berrett-Koehler in San Francisco. Transformative Scenario Planning is a methodology for using scenarios—stories constructed by teams of actors from across a given social-political-economic system, about what could (not will, not should) happen in their system—as a tool not only for understanding the future but for working together to influence it.

On October 29, we facilitated a session called "The Creative Process of Entrepreneurship", held at the Emerge Conference at the Said Business School in Oxford, England (see www.theemergeconference.org). One hundred and twenty participants attended the mini-workshop. The purpose of the session was to introduce them to an experience of the U-Process and for them to create physical models of their ideas of social enterprises.

A collection of photos from our recent innovation festival in The Netherlands, part of a ten-tier Change Lab called Pluk.

Clem Sunter, News24

Last year I wrote about the Dinokeng scenarios produced by Old Mutual under the guidance of Adam Kahane. A few months ago in this column, I recommended an Economic Codesa. This article shows how the two are linked.

"Walk Apart" was a scenario where South Africa ended up as a racially polarised society or, even worse still, was riven by a perpetual civil war. Although South Africa got its act together in Codesa I and II in reaching a negotiated political settlement in the early 1990s, the economy proved to be a nut too hard to crack.

Read the whole article at News24 Here.

Social change expert Adam Kahane suggests that to master complex challenges, leaders need to learn to act and empathize simultaneously.

Kaospilots and Reos Partners

We're exited to share the thoughts and reflections of 6 Kaospilots who were invited to join a three day facilitation course in Oxford in November 2010.

Reos Partner Zaid Hassan's reflections on Egypt

It’s been a little over two hours since Mubarak gave his speech; twenty-four hours since the Muslim Brotherhood announced it would not be fielding a presidential candidate in post-Mubarak elections; a week since Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Khamenei tried to paint the Egyptian Revolution a shade of ‘79; eighteen days since protests began in Egypt; and thirty-seven days since Mohamed Bouazizi died in Tunisia from self-immolation, sparking the deepest and most widespread changes within the Arab world in generations.

Please read the whole piece online at Religion Dispatches Magazine.

Reos Partners London is pleased to announce the launch of a new Reos newspaper that digs deep into the office’s team members, methods, tools, and projects.

In this first issue, the Review covers a number of diverse topics: Yemen: Confronting the Perfect Storm; The Anatomy of the Change Lab; Don't Plan, Prototype, and more.

To read more, please check out The Reos Review.