Does an outcome centred approach increase the likelihood of unlocking unknown step changing opportunities … the opportunities that become game changes in industries, that change the rules of the game, that drive a focus on experiences, and aspects that sit outside of the “factory” gates and energizes teams to achieve career defining moments.

The last n decades with the somewhat output centred approach have ticked the box of the prediction based accountants, assessing cost savings and growth targets but have they restricted and constrained ultimate performance as the approaches reinforce the status quo approach to business benefits and qualitative results, that constrain effort to processes, templates, and spreadsheet filling, that lead to tracking against a budget set in the past rather than the opportunities that unfold as we progress into the future.

Are we all working in a world that is evolving to one where we can all be game changers, where the businesses we work for will incrementally move forwards in a more progressive exploratory way, where results of driving up adoption and achieving the outcomes are assessed.

We have to let the generations that are following us – not follow in our footsteps but instead enable them to make an impact in ways that we were never able to do.

Let them build partnerships focused on shared progressive outcomes rather than sign supply chain contracts to optimise the status quo.

Let them bring in the new, in a way that is not constrained by improving the ways of the past.

Let them really turn the dial up on the experience outcomes, environmental outcomes and find ways of working that individual work for them and enable them to achieve outcomes as a team.

We are in the 2020s not the 1990s … we are only scratching the surface of the next stage of the industrial/information revolution .. we are able to consider options that are far better for the planet than we ever could before .. and we can use tech to change what we do and where we do it.

Let’s see what outcomes and experiences we can achieve as we progress beyond 2030 – let’s look forwards not back and let’s change how things get done