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Chandler, Arizona Facility

"Future of E-Business and the Supply Chain in the Internet Economy"

Future Mapping® Exercise Endstates
The following 'endstates' were developed by NerveWire of Boston as part of their "Mapping the Future Architecture of Business" workshop. NerveWire offers this as a description of an 'endstate' as a reference with this exercise."An endstate, in the Future Mapping® process, is a snapshot of a particular point in the future (in this case, 2005), which focuses on key issues deliberately chosen to illustrate strategic alternatives. The endstates are written to be as different from each other as possible while still remaining plausible. They are also designed to make clear several alternative business architectures that could emerge. Not all issues are described in every endstate." NerveWire proposes 5 separate endstates for the year 2005:

A. The Net Rush
B. The Customer-Centric Company
C. Global Open Value Webs
D. The Swarm Economy
E. Complex Adaptive Giants

In considering these endstates, one often discovers being attracted to some of the ideas in every endstate. Remember that no endstate is written to be THE complete answer. Consider the net of the trade-offs in each and compare them relative only to each other on the ranking dimensions. Chances are, your choices will be highly subjective, driven by just a few endstate characteristics that are most important to you.