{"id":5740,"date":"2021-11-10T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2023-02-17T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:52:13","slug":"learning-to-create-value-in-the-highly-uncertain-post-covid-19-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/tomorrow-choices\/learning-to-create-value-in-the-highly-uncertain-post-covid-19-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to create value in the highly uncertain post-Covid-19 era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It\u2019s often been said that nothing is certain in this world except death and taxes. Now the Covid-19 crisis has brought uncertainty to dizzying new levels. Over the past months, the world has been grappling with unanswerable questions \u2013 from pangolins and masks at the height of the crisis, to economic damage and a possible new normal in recent weeks. Yet, although it seemed lockdowns were slowly lifted&nbsp;and business picked up again, the early fall dynamics prove that the fog has not cleared and is not likely to clear quickly. <strong>Uncertainty has seeped into every domain on a massive, unprecedented scale.<\/strong> Companies must navigate more unknowns than ever in the aftermath of the crisis: Will our business model still work? What do we do if it does not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Uncertainty competence\u201d is a necessary skill in all companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><mark>Those life-and-death questions (yes, they <em>are<\/em> questions of survival) are par for the course for entrepreneurs.<\/mark> In fact, it is pretty much a tenet in the field of entrepreneurship that the ability of entrepreneurs to interpret and respond to [\u2026] uncertainty [\u2026] determines the degree of success or failure achieved by the venture. We believe that \u201cuncertainty competence\u201d, or the ability to create new value in the face of uncertainty, is a necessary skill in all companies, even the most established ones, to adapt to the post-Covid-19 world. However, as present as uncertainty may be, there is substantial confusion about its real nature and implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>How uncertainty is different from risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank Knight\u2019s seminal work on the matter was written almost a century ago, yet is still relevant. Knight defined true uncertainty as a situation in which there is no basis for classifying potential outcomes. Conversely, risk can be quantified, with probabilities assigned to possible future outcomes. But in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, there is no solid prior experience, hence no way of estimating the likelihood of different scenarios, or for some even no way of knowing the range of possible scenarios. <strong>Uncertainty permeates everything: What can I do now that will make me successful given all these new circumstances?<\/strong> But while uncertainty is different from risk, from a business perspective is it important to view uncertainty, risk and certainty on a continuum that companies have to navigate. And the degree of uncertainty therefore determines the choice of the right tools and concepts to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tools to handle (and decrease) uncertainty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standard management practices adopted from the realm of business administration (business plans, pitching, market analysis\u2026) may have been helpful in making burgeoning ventures more professional, but are less so when dealing with uncertainty. On the contrary, <mark>approaches such as design thinking, improvisation, effectuation and bricolage, are effective under uncertainty, as they allow entrepreneurs to explore and co-create possible futures.<\/mark> These tools and methods are based on small iterations (testing and experimenting), agility, early customer interaction and collaboration \u2013 all principles which, over the past decade, have sparked interest even in traditional companies in their permanent quest for innovation. Now that even the most established organisations are in a post-coronavirus haze it is time for them to build uncertainty competence. We even call for it to become a fundamental element of today\u2019s management education included in business school curricula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The three steps to building uncertainty competence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Broaden the range of decision logics<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><mark>Leaders, managers and employees need to have the knowledge to assess the specific decision-making situation they are in, determine its position on the uncertainty spectrum, then decide on an adequate approach.<\/mark> For instance, in the face of high uncertainty, business planning is not only time-consuming but also ineffective. We therefore propose that companies develop and allow a wide range of decision logics with matching methods and tools, again borrowed from entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Figure 1. Entrepreneurship as uncertainty reduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-1-mauer-kupp-sept-2020-1024x480.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-1-mauer-kupp-sept-2020-1024x480.png 1024w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-1-mauer-kupp-sept-2020-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-1-mauer-kupp-sept-2020-768x360.png 768w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-1-mauer-kupp-sept-2020-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-1-mauer-kupp-sept-2020.png 1273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em><strong>Source: own visualisation based on Grichnik et al. 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li><strong>Shift from an optimisation mindset to an exploration mindset<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Methods and tools most suited for highly uncertain situations have a bias towards action, collaboration, iteration and customer centricity. In order to successfully apply them, people must shift from an optimisation mindset (finding the best solution to a problem) to an exploration mindset. <mark>We need to become a lot more like artists.<\/mark> The required mindset allows acting without knowing what the right direction is. Failure needs to be part of the process \u2013 not quite a standard operating procedure in companies today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\"><li><strong>Develop leadership and make room for creation<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><mark>While company rules are not always conducive to creation and emergence, it is up to leaders to be aware of this limitation, and make room for the entrepreneurial mindset to explore.<\/mark> This room comes through developing leadership skills in people who are supposed to do [exploratory] projects, they need to feel safe in following their procedures and take other people with them on their journey of exploration. However, this is not about replacing an existing operating system with a new one, but rather about running the two in parallel and creating fruitful connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The project of building uncertainty competence \u2013 a worthwhile investment \u2013 is in itself\u2026 a decision under high uncertainty.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-accent-background-color has-accent-color is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article was originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/businessreview\/2020\/09\/21\/to-create-value-in-the-covid-19-era-set-aside-standard-risk-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LSE Business Review<\/a> under the Creative Commons licence&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It is based on the authors&#8217;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.escp.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/PDF\/Kupp_Mauer_impact%20paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">impact paper<\/a>&nbsp;published as part of ESCP Business School\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.escp.eu\/news\/first-impact-papers-meant-help-business-and-society-following-unprecedented-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cManaging a Post-Covid19 Era\u201d series<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Martin Kupp\" class=\"wp-image-1610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/kupp_3x4-2-e1606227809540.jpg 1305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Martin Kupp&nbsp;<\/strong>is an associate professor for entrepreneurship and strategy at ESCP Business School, Paris, and a visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin. Martin mentors start-ups in various accelerator programs, focusing on positive impact start-ups in emerging economies. In 2019, he helped launch Renaissance Fusion with the objective of bringing fusion energy out of the lab and onto the grid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019_rene-mauer_7051_small_square.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Ren\u00e9 Mauer, ESCP Business School\" class=\"wp-image-5261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019_rene-mauer_7051_small_square.jpg 454w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019_rene-mauer_7051_small_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019_rene-mauer_7051_small_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019_rene-mauer_7051_small_square-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong><strong>Ren\u00e9 Mauer<\/strong> <\/strong>is a professor for entrepreneurship and innovation at ESCP Business School, Berlin. He received his PhD from RWTH Aachen, and his area of expertise is entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty in venture and corporate contexts. Ren\u00e9 has been involved in different start-ups and regularly works together with established companies when it comes to developing uncertainty competence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make decisions in such an unpredictable context, and indeed survive and thrive, companies need an exploratory mindset. 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