Arkaro Insights: adapt and thrive in complexity
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Arkaro Insights: adapt and thrive in complexity

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Arkaro Insights: adapt and thrive in complexity brings together practitioners and researchers for honest, practical conversations on leadership, change and innovation in a complex, adaptive world.

Each episode gives B2B executives the thinking and tools to lead transformation, not just manage it — whether in agriculture, food, chemicals or any industry where complexity is the daily reality.

We explore four interconnected themes:

The AI Implementation Blueprint — how leaders cut through the hype and embed AI as a genuine organisational capability

The Human Edge — the neuroscience and psychology of change, creativity and decision-making under uncertainty

Outside-In Innovation — customer needs, market signals and the disciplines that turn insight into growth

Strategy for Complex Adaptive Systems — emergent strategy, integrated business planning and leading organisations that learn and adapt

Hosted by Mark Blackwell, founder of Arkaro, a B2B consultancy that works alongside clients in a collaborative 'do it with you' approach, leaving behind sustainable solutions, not just a slide deck.

"We don't just coach — we get on the pitch with you."


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💬 We'd love to hear from you! What topics would you like us to explore in future podcast episodes? Drop us a message or connect with us to learn more about Arkaro's approach.


🔗 Visit us at www.arkaro.com

👥 Follow our updates: Arkaro on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkaro/

📧 Email us at: mark@arkaro.com


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English
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73 episodes
since July 1, 2022
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Crafting the Future: Thomas Gillier on Visionary Concepts and the Network Structure of Ideas

Crafting the Future: Thomas Gillier on Visionary Concepts and the Network Structure of Ideas

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What should a team do when there is no problem to solve, only a future to imagine? In this episode of Arkaro Insights, Mark Blackwell talks with Thomas Gillier, Associate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management and scientific coordinator of the ANR InnovAI project. Their subject is visionary conc…
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Beyond Borders: Why Culture Is the Hidden Variable in Every IBP Implementation | Eric Wilson

Beyond Borders: Why Culture Is the Hidden Variable in Every IBP Implementation | Eric Wilson

Two regional business units run the same S&OP or IBP software, trained by the same team. One flies, one flounders. It's rarely the technology. It's rarely even the process. It's culture. In this episode, Mark is joined by Eric Wilson, Director of Thought Leadership at the Institu…
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From Ought to Is: Deborah Rowland on the Bouncers on the Door of the Night Club of Truth

From Ought to Is: Deborah Rowland on the Bouncers on the Door of the Night Club of Truth

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Most transformation programmes don't fail from poor project management. They fail because leaders are managing how they believe the world ought to be, rather than facing how it actually is. In this episode, Mark speaks with Deborah Rowland, one of the world's foremost thinkers on leading …
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Engineer or Gardener? David Hurst on AI, the Ecocycle and the Rigidity Trap

Engineer or Gardener? David Hurst on AI, the Ecocycle and the Rigidity Trap

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Most senior leaders in mature businesses know something is wrong. Their organisation is efficient, profitable and increasingly unable to move. What they lack is a language for what to do about it.** This podcast references a number of slides. You may prefer the version on www.youtube.com/@arkaro **…
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Value Centric: Why Your IBP Process Is Executing the Wrong Things Brilliantly | Dov Shenkman

Value Centric: Why Your IBP Process Is Executing the Wrong Things Brilliantly | Dov Shenkman

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Many businesses are brilliant at execution, and brilliant at executing the wrong things. Dov Shenkman, CEO of Atid Group and author of Value Centric, explains why efficiency alone is a downward spiral, and how AI is about to close the gap between planning and value.Profit is not the goal. Profit is…
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Junk Values: Why Corporate Values Fail and What to Do Instead | Erika Clegg

Junk Values: Why Corporate Values Fail and What to Do Instead | Erika Clegg

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Most corporate values are useless. Not because values don't matter, but because organisations have spent thirty years reaching for the same twenty-four words, integrity, collaboration, respect, excellence, and wondering why nobody believes them. Erika Clegg is the co-founder of Larkenby, creat…
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Regenerative Agriculture at Scale: Data, Satellites, and Smallholder Farmers with Defne Saral, ofi

Regenerative Agriculture at Scale: Data, Satellites, and Smallholder Farmers with Defne Saral, ofi

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Most people assume food miles are the enemy of sustainable sourcing. They are wrong. Transportation and freight account for less than 10% of a food product's total environmental impact. The real challenge — and the real opportunity — is at the farm. Defne Saral, Senior Vice President of Sales …
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Fusion Strategy: The $75 Trillion Industrial AI Opportunity | Venkat Venkatraman

Fusion Strategy: The $75 Trillion Industrial AI Opportunity | Venkat Venkatraman

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What if the companies that think AI is someone else's problem are about to lose their most valuable competitive ground? Professor Venkat Venkatraman from Boston University's Questrom School of Business is the co-author of Fusion Strategy (Harvard Business Review Press) and one of the worl…
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The Hidden Power of Messy Teams with Johnathan Cromwell

The Hidden Power of Messy Teams with Johnathan Cromwell

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What if the teams that struggle to define their problem early are actually your best innovation bet? Dr Johnathan Cromwell, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of San Francisco, shares findings from a study of over 1,100 real innovation teams at a Fortune Global…
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