The Anticipatory Organization® Learning System

Learn the Missing Competency

Make the Anticipatory Organization® Learning System Your Competitive Advantage

Hear first-hand results from two CEOs who implemented and continue to use the AO Learning System for their firms. There is a major impact when a company takes their leadership team through the Anticipatory Organization Learning System.

The AO™ Learning System

What is the Anticipatory Organization Learning System?

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The Anticipatory Organization® Learning System is a results-driven process for executives and their teams to develop the skills to accurately foresee and take critical actions before disruption strikes.. Developing the competency of Anticipation is a powerful enhancement for organizations who have adopted other process improvement methods like Agile, Lean, Six Sigma and others. The program focuses on four key areas of development:

Trend Analysis

Understanding directional changes in your industry will enable you to better identify market certainties. Are you faced with cyclical change (such as seasonal,  economic or sales cycles)? Or linear & exponential change (such as the shift to mobility, virtualization, and advanced cloud services)? Knowing the difference can give you a powerful window to the future.

As you learn to separate the HARD TRENDS that will happen from the SOFT TRENDS that might happen, you will learn to foresee and profit from change and disruption.

Customer Needs

Suppose instead of trying to meet your customers’ expectations, you could predict their future needs.

To create the best products and provide the best services, a company must correctly gauge what trends, environments, and situations will address their customers’ current and future unmet needs.

Discover how to rise above the competition by using Hard Trends to predict what your customers will need before they ask for it—and provide them with a solution at just the right time.

Sales Obstacles

Tie your solution into the HARD TRENDS that will shape your customers’ future. Certainty brings a high level of confidence. Use that confidence as a powerful closing tool. Hurdle over sales obstacles by foreseeing and solving problems before your customers can identify them.

New Opportunities

The most exciting part of active anticipation is being able to identify and capitalize on new business opportunities. Learn how to jump ahead with much lower risk to gain  and maintain a healthy advantage over your competitors.

What Clients Are Saying

What clients are saying about The Anticipatory Organization® Learning System

CEO Testimonial: The Biggest Benefit of The Anticipatory Organization® Learning System

“We used Daniel Burrus’ Anticipatory Organization Learning System for a very-talented group of finance professionals. The experience was fantastic, very productive, innovative and inspirational. I personally recommend this approach to anyone that would like to be more strategic, more impactful and better prepared to solve complex problems.”

Emma Santiago, Finance Competence Development Leader, Nokia

“The Anticipatory Organization Learning System provides a solid framework for how current and future leaders can learn to be better at identifying opportunities and shape decisions in a dynamic environment.” –

William Bender, Lt General,  USAF-CIO

“The feedback we are hearing from our team members is overwhelmingly positive. We are empowering our professionals to be thought leaders in an industry where that is the most important distinguishing trait a business advisor can offer. What makes The Anticipatory Organization Learning System unique is that it goes beyond spotting future trends or foreseeing industry fads and trains our professionals to know what our clients will need down the road so they are prepared to offer those services to them now.”

Christopher Allegretti, Managing Principal/CEO, HBK

The Anticipatory Organization Learning System has allowed us to efficiently and cost effectively train over 200 of our Top Leaders and as a result, we have significantly elevated our company’s strategic plans. We have  also accelerated our investments in specific technologies and new products, which has given us a significant new competitive advantage.

Jim McIntyre, President & CEO Greenheck Group  

“The Anticipatory Organization Learning System helps establish a mindset, a common language and eventually a culture of being anticipatory for our clients. By making this anticipatory skillset a core strength of our teams, it brings creative and new ideas that make us more valuable to our clients and it creates a game changer for our firm.”

Joey Havens, Executive Partner, HORNE LLP

“The Anticipatory Organization provides a compelling methodology to enable each of us to identify future trends and meaningful opportunities in a time of hyper change.  Simple in its approach, yet truly transformational in its results.” 

Joel Doherty, Head of Global Strategy and Business Development, EPSON Cloud/EPSON America

“Every one of our partners went through the AO Learning System and it’s outstanding, we heartily recommend it. Undergoing this mind shift transforms you from your current role to an elite advisor — capable of adding tremendous value to clients and dramatically increasing your marketability.”

Ian Welhman, Partner HaydenRock Solutions 

“The Anticipatory Organization learning system provides a solid framework for transforming an organization from being reactive to anticipatory. Learning how to anticipate disruptions and new opportunities is extremely important now and in the years ahead.”

Anoop N. Mehta, President, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

“The Anticipatory Organization Learning System (AO) has enabled our firm to understand a whole new way of helping our clients. We have trained our entire staff to help our clients identify Hard and Soft Trends which effect their businesses or their personal life, and how to address them. With the rapid changes in technology in today’s world, AO gives us a way to address changes, realize disruptions before they happen, and help clients in new and powerful ways.”

Allen P. DeLeon, Partner, DeLeon and Stang

“Everyone keeps telling accountants that they need to change their focus from the historic and the backward-looking, and to start being proactive and offering future-focused advice – but no one tells them how. The beauty of the Anticipatory Organization program is that it actually gives you a set of tools to harness the hard trends that are shaping the future, and use them to create new value for your firm and your clients.”

Daniel Hood, Editor-in-Chief, Accounting Today

“The Anticipatory Organization Learning System is one of the best courses I’ve ever taken. This course takes you into the concept of future thinking and provides you with a framework in which to identify the Hard Trends and Soft Trends that will impact your industry and provide you with insights on how to become a disruptor and not one of the disrupted. If you’re looking to take a course that will provide you with foresight and future thinking techniques this course will provide you with all of that and more.“

Gerald Leonard, CEO, Principles of Execution, LLC

“Anticipatory skills give us the confidence to drive transformative change in our firm and in our industry. Our people have a new language that allows them to work on innovation projects faster and bolder than before The Anticipatory Organization Learning System.” 

Jeff Wald, Managing Partner, KCOE ISOM

“The simplicity of the Anticipatory Organization™ model enables your organization to get out from under the weight of uncertainty and disruption; understand and apply complex ideas; and engage the future head on.

Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA

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Short Engaging Videos

Through a series of short, engaging videos followed by rapid application activities, participants within your organization will learn to:

  • Anticipate disruptions, problems, customer needs and game-changing opportunities
  • Separate Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen
  • Use Hard and Soft Trends to identify game-changing opportunities
  • Identify problems before they happen and pre-solve them
  • Drive Everyday & Transformational Innovation using the Eight Hard Trend Pathways to Innovation
  • Create a compelling, aligned, and shared FUTUREVIEW® plan based on the forces that will shape the future to accelerate success
  • Jump ahead with low risk and the confidence that certainty offers to actively shape your future

Collaborative Learning Facilitation and
Coaching Services

We help our Anticipatory Organization Learning System clients apply and implement the specific AO principles, behaviors, guidelines and tools for creativity, and the proven methodology created and continually refined by Burrus Research. Collectively AO implementation enhances our clients as market differentiators, and thus their overall success in the market.

Facilitation Services

Developed for AO Learning System clients who would like the experience of a “hands-on” collaborative facilitation for each of the four modules within the AO Learning System.

Maximize the successful implementation of the AO Learning System with facilitation of individual sharing of learning (in a team setting) to create a common language and results-based transformation.

The result of this team learning is the creation of an organization-wide sustaining habit of “Anticipatory Thinking and Acting.”

Coaching Services

Designed to accelerate self-sustaining Anticipatory behaviors where participants develop a common language, and over time become unconsciously skilled at applying AO principles in multiple contexts to Elevate Planning, Accelerate Innovation, and Transform Results.

We provide custom client-defined coaching that focuses on creating a self-sustaining post-learning culture and habit of Anticipatory Organization® Model behaviors in multiple contexts and complex situations.

Robert Hiebeler

Robert has a passion for innovation and transformational change that has been developed and refined over a 50+ year business career. He began working with Daniel Burrus over 25 years ago, and shares his passion for helping companies develop Anticipatory Competencies so critical to success.

Bob has a long history in executive roles in leading world-wide innovations in Global Best Practices.

 

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