Anticipatory Governance™ Icon Set

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ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE™ ICON SET

CREATING A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Gold Mercury International presents the Anticipatory Governance™ icon set.

A set of 40+ icons ready for you to use. The Anticipatory Governance™ Icons will enhance and enrich your communications material by creating a visual and convenient shorthand to aid with the explanation of key concepts and complex ideas and to help enforce your organisation’s commitment and focus to Anticipatory Governance™and Global Sustainability. The Anticipatory Governance™ icons can be utilized in a wide spectrum of communications from internal presentations to conferences, client meetings, training documents, workshops, reminder notes and notices.

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THE ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE™ ICON SET: A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE FIVE REASONS WHY YOUR ORGANISATION SHOULD ADOPT AND UTILIZE THE ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE™ ICON SET AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF YOUR ORGANISATION’S COMMUNICATIONS.

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To bring Anticipatory Governance™ related concepts into your communications that will reinforce your organisations culture and values.

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To help all stakeholders to absorb and process information more efficiently.

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To reinforce specific concepts and ideas within your communications material.

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To make your communications friendlier, more inviting, focused and easier to comprehend.

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Icons are universal as are the Anticipatory Governance™ concepts we want to integrate into your organisation.

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ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE™ ICON SET GLOSSARY

A simple guide to the concepts and ideas that the Anticipatory Governance™ icon set encompasses and communicates.

STRATEGIC PLANNING: is an STRATEGIC organisation’s process of defining PLANNING its strategy / direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.

GLOBAL GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: the political interaction of transnational GOVERNANCE actors aimed at solving global issues.

VISION: an outline of where you VISION want to be and where you want to go in the future, acting as a source of inspiration and providing / simplifying clear decision-making.

MISSION: the fundamental purpose MISSION of an organization, spelling out its overall goal and ambition.

CHANGE: the process of becoming CHANGE different, transformed or modified.

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: meeting GLOBAL the needs of the present without SUSTAINABILITY compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

GLOBALISATION

GLOBALISATION: the greater movement of people, goods, capital and ideas due to increased economic integration.

VALUES: a set of shared beliefs, VALUES objects and ideals that truly matter to your organisation.

A simple and fun way to communicate concepts and to enliven information in a way that engages users and enhances understanding. Use the Anticipatory Governance™ icon set to create clear and compelling communications and to reinforce specific concepts within your oragnisations.

We use them in a wide range of communications material, such as on the cover of one of our Anticipatory Governance™ papers.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: a INTERNATIONAL concern with relations among states RELATIONS and other political and economic units within the international system.

Strategic Future Perspective & Governance Culture & Organisation

CORPORATE VISION

Stakeholder Engagement

provides innovation & insight

purpose, structure & process

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Activity Perspective

connected to customer’s needs

Product / Service

Key Activities

Customer Perspective

Client Relationships

supported by

enables

performs

addresses

contributes

Partner Network

Offer

builds on

targets

Client Segments

established through

is required by

provides

is delivered by

Key Resources

Financial Perspective

Distribution Channels

generates

Cost Structures

Profit

generates

reaches

generates

Revenue (Model)

Strategic Future Perspective & Governance CULTURE & ORGANISATION What kind of culture & organisation do we need?

What are our true core competencies?

Activity Perspective

KEY ACTIVITIES What are our key activities and how difficult are they to perform (by others)?

PARTNER NETWORK What can partners do than us or at a lower cost (and thus leverage our business model)?

CORPORATE VISION® How do we see the future and our role in it?

What do we believe in and are passionate about?

What is the emerging paradigm/opportunity?

What sustainable contribution do we add to society?

Value Proposition

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT Who are our stakeholders and what do they expect/need from us?

Customer Perspective

PRODUCTS/SERVICES Which one of our customer’s problems are we solving and why will he work with us rather than with a competitor?

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT What type of relationship does our customer expect us to establish and maintain with him?

CUSTOMER SEGMENTS What are our customer’s needs and desired ambitions today and in the future?

DISTRIBUTION & COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS Through which means does our customer want to be reached and addressed by us?

KEY RESOURCES What are our key resources and how difficult are they to copy (by others)?

Financial Perspective COST STRUCTURE What is the cost structure of our business model and is it in harmony with the core idea of our business model?

PROFIT EQUATION

REVENUE STREAMS/PRICING What value are our customers really willing to pay for and how will they pay for it?

© 2009 Corporate Vision Strategists adapted from Osterwalder Business Model Ontology

The Anticipatory Governance™ Icon Set has been devised to introduce visionary concepts into your organisation to strengthen your communications and aid the absorption and digestion of information for all stakeholders. Here is an example of how we use the icons within some of our internal communications and tools.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: CORPORATE the set of processes, customs, GOVERNANCE policies and laws that affect the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled.

ACCOUNTABILITY/ ACCOUNTABILITY

RESPONSIBILITY: acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for ones actions and to be answerable for the resulting consequences.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: the act of GLOBAL being the citizen of one community, CITIZENSHIP the global community.

FUTURE DESTINATION: the place / FUTURE position that one wishes to be DESTINATION in the future.

CORPORATE VALUE: The sum of CORPORATE the value of a firm’s operations / VALUE tangible assets and the value of its non-operating / intangible assets.

ORGANISATIONAL ENERGY: the ORGANISATIONAL force with which an organisation ENERGY pursues and executes its work.

DECISION MAKING: the outcome of DECISION mental processes that leads to the MAKING selection of a course of action from several alternatives.

ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE: ANTICIPATORY producing long-term GOVERNANCEorientated policies with vision and foresight.

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COOPERATION COOPERATION: the process of working or acting together.

REALITY: the states of things REALITY as they actually exist, as it is now.

GOOD DECISIONS: GOOD the selection of aDECISIONS course of action that may have a positive effect upon others.

BAD the selection BADDECISIONS: DECISIONS of a course of action that may be negative or have a detrimental effect upon others.

GLOBAL CHALLENGES: GLOBAL a demanding task or situation CHALLENGES that requires the response of the international community.

BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION: BUSINESS the reinvention MODELof a business into an INNOVATION entirely different company to enhance its value proposition.

GLOBAL PUBLIC OPINION: GLOBAL PUBLIC the complex collection of opinions OPINION from the international communities and the sum of all their views.

SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS: SUSTAINABLE theSOLUTIONS means to solving a problem that may be continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment.

The Anticipatory Governance™ Icon Set is simple and easy to use. The icon set comes supplied as ready to use high resolution image files that are compatible across all computer platforms. Simply open the icon set folder

and begin using them. The Anticipatory Governance™ icons are ready to use, all you need to do is exercise a little bit of creativity, flare and imagination to set about enriching your organization’s communications material.

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PEOPLE: humans being in general.

PEOPLE

FUTURE: time, events and FUTURE conditions that are yet still to come.

The Anticipatory Governance™ icon set will enable you to create a universal language that transcends normal language barriers, and enables you to communicate your concepts, ideas and beliefs to a greater audience whilst creating a dynamic and exciting visual feel to your organisation’s communications material.

Here’s an example of how we use the Anticipatory Governance™ icons within our presentation slides.

WORKSHOP: a brief intensive WORKSHOP course emphasizing interaction and the exchange of information among a small number of participants.

STAKEHOLDERS: a group, STAKEHOLDERS organisation, persons or system who affects or can be affected by an organisation’s actions.

MEETING: where two or MEETING more people come together for the purpose of discussing a predetermined topic.

COMPLEXITY: something COMPLEXITY consisting of many different and interconnected parts that is difficult to understand.

UNCERTAINTY: a state of having UNCERTAINTY limited knowledge where it is impossible to exactly describe the existing state or future outcome.

TRAINING: the acquisition of TRAINING knowledge, skills and competencies as a result of imparting vocational or practical skills and knowledge.

WORK SESSION: a meeting WORK SESSION between two or more people devoted to the discussion of information.

OPPORTUNITY: a favourable OPPORTUNITY juncture of circumstances, a good chance for advancement or progress.

LARGE SCALE EVENT: an LARGE SCALE oberservable occurrence of EVENT considerable size.

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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: an COMPETITIVE organisation’s superior position ADVANTAGE over its competitors.

PARADIGMS: an existing pattern, PARADIGMS model or framework.

GLOBAL CIVICCIVIC SOCIETY: GLOBAL a collection of organisations and SOCIETY institutions that form an uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values.

PHILOSOPHY: a system / set of PHILOSOPHY principles for guidance in practical affairs.

CORPORATE SOCIAL CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: SOCIAL the need for corporations to monitor and ensure RESPONSIBILITY their adherence to law, ethical standards and international norms.

PURPOSE: the anticipated PURPOSE result that drives you and your decision-making.

PRESENTATION: the practice of PRESENTATION showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience or learner.

CULTURE CULTURE: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes your organisation.

IDEAS:IDEAS a thought, concept or suggestion about a possible course of action.

GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS: GLOBAL PUBLIC a public good ie peace & security GOODS which is non-rival and non-excludable throughout the whole world.

GLOBAL SOCIAL JUSTICE: GLOBAL SOCIAL a global community which affords JUSTICE individuals and groups fair treatment and an impartial share of the benefits of society.

ETHICS: a set of moral principles, ETHICS with the respect of the rightness and wrongness of actions and the motives / outcomes of such actions.

The Anticipatory Governance™ icon Set has been devised to introduce Visionary Leadership concepts into your organisation to strengthen your communications and aid the absorption and digestion of information for all stakeholders.

Here is an example of how we use the icons within some of our communications and tools.

THE ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE™ ICON SET: WHAT’S THE NEXT STEP? USE THEM, LEARN FROM THEM. USE THE ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE ™ ICON SET TO COMMUNICATE YOUR VISION INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY. IT’S FUN, IT’S EDUCATIONAL, IT’S INSPIRATIONAL.