WHAT IS MANARA

Manara is the Arabic word for 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 face increasingly complex challenges, and have to constantly innovate and re-invent themselves, while their management and staff are stressed to the limit with daily management and operational duties.

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

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Systems Thinking & Business Models

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