WHAT IS MANARA

Manara is an Arabic word, meaning lighthouse. Traditionally, lighthouses exposed the hidden dangers that lurked in treacherous coastlines and guided sailors and pilots to safe harbors. They were symbols of clarity in darkness or stormy weather.

Today organizations large and small must navigate constantly shifting paradigms, where disruption is the operative word and confusing trends like globalization, convergence, generational shift, economic downturn, and web 2.0 reign.

We are your lighthouse through these interesting times. We help you anticipate future developments in your business environment through strategic foresight; we assist you in evaluating various scenarios with business modeling tools. We support you in planning and implementing the changes required to improve your organization’s performance and resilience.

For a no-cost no-risk exploration of how we can help you, just click here for the many ways to contact us.

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The Journey from Information to Innovation

August 16th, 2010

Next month the CIO Association of Canada is organizing the CIO Exchange, an event joining the conversation about the changing role of the CIO. It is all about the evolving meaning of the "I" in the "CIO" title, thus the event's title "From Information to Innovation". Read more >

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RT @NASA: Images from the Landsat 5 satellite show a Pakistani city engulfed by flood waters. Devastating. http://go.usa.gov/cnU 2 weeks ago

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Investigating “For Benefit” Business Models

Graduate students of the Strategic Foresight & Innovation (SFI) program at OCADU are presenting strategy reports for a group of organizations with new business models that they studied over the summer semester. Read more >