TAPESTRY for Strategic Planning

Organizations are in the midst of transformational change that is reshaping our world and expanding our reach into worlds we create and those we have yet to explore. This degree of change will force shifts in how people, and businesses, relate to each other. Old challenges remain, new challenges unfold and endless opportunities abound. Executive leaders should promote the use of technological, political, economical, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal and environmental (TPESTRE) — which Gartner refers to as a “Tapestry” — as a planning tool for uncertainty. Gartner’s Tapestry should be used as a starting point for an ongoing trendspotting initiative (see The Gartner Trendspotting Framework: Driving Operations, Innovation and Strategy). To succeed in a disruptive future, enterprises must continually scan and respond to disruptions. These disruptions threaten corporate positions in the marketplace and jeopardize the digital transformation wins that companies have worked so hard to achieve (see Inventing the Future With Continuous Foresight). Executive leaders must evaluate a variety of trends, beyond just technology, and their impact on strategic planning. Gartner’s Tapestry research is a 360-degree perspective of potentially game-changing technological, political, economical, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal and environmental trends that will assist leaders in their strategic planning efforts. In this podcast, our expert analyst Marty Resnick joins us to explore how you can utilize Tapestry for strategic planning. Host Frances Karamouzis is joined by our expert analyst Marty Resnick. He is one of the leaders of Gartner’s Futures Lab, our home for unconventional, speculative and futuristic research. The mission of the Gartner Futures Lab is to prepare leaders for uncertainty by exploring new ways of imagining the future. By starting with the question “What if …,” we help you determine your uncharted next mission-critical priorities.