4/24/07  Roch Parayre

Scanning the Periphery

The biggest dangers to your company are the ones you don't see coming. How to spot them early and respond effectively.

When Roch Payayre appeared at The Masters Forum in 2005 to discuss the essential skills for improving individual decision-making, he was rated as one of our best speakers ever, earning top marks on every dimension of our rating scales. Over eighty percent of the attendees who evaluated his session said it would have a significant impact on their professional lives. He is a great presenter with important, useful messages

So, we have asked him back to address his other consulting specialty: heightening organizational alertness to the threats and opportunities that exist in the blurry zone at the edge of an organization's peripheral vision. "Making sense out of weak signals is increasingly important in a world of uncertainty," he says, and he has worked with scores of companies--including American Airlines, Disney, EDS, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, Merrill Lynch, and Microsoft--to create straightforward and cost-effective systems for doing so.

Dr. Parayre, who is a Senior Fellow at the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School and Senior Partner of Decision Strategies International, will teach you how to decide what to look for, where to look, and how to interpret what you see by learning from the past, evaluating the present, and envisioning the future. He'll cover related topics, too, such as how to balance your time between focusing on your core activities and checking the periphery.