The Reut Institute
Designing a Future
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September 2008
Reut Institute: Agent of Change
Challenges
Decision
Support
Vision
Training
Mission
Model to
Emulate
Strategy
Complexity of Challenges
Weakness of Tools
The Challenge
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Flat
World
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Rise andinFall
Strategies
Paradigm
‘relevant’ to
reality
New Paradigm
A few years
Relevancy
Paradigm
Eroded
Paradigm
Loses Relevancy
Rise of
Competing
Paradigms
Generations
Time
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Why Reut?
Short, Unstable Tenures
Complex Challenges
Fragmented Knesset & Gov
Volatile Environment
Short Term, Populist,
Sectarian conduct
Long term, Substantive
Broad View
Address for
Decision Makers
Training Future
Strategists
Model to Emulate
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The Vision
21st Century
Zionism
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Vision as a Guide ?
Where there is no vision, the people perish
(Proverbs 29.18)
21st Century Zionism – State whose Jewishness synergizes
with its democratic values and prosperity, as well as with its
role as a leader among the family of nations .
National Security
Fierce Competition over:
Talent
ISRAELTechnology
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Added Jewish Value
Investment
Moral high ground
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Reut’s Mission
To sustain significant and substantive impact
on the State of Israel and the Jewish people
Substantive: Design of strategies
Significant: Issues of national importance
Sustained: Continuous action over time
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Decision
Support
Identifying Strategic
Surprises & Opportunities
Focused Research
Impact
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Identify, Research, Communicate
Identifying
Mapping basic assumptions;
Testing
their relevancy;
Decision-makers’
Identifying potential
world
view is based
strategic surprises &
on implicit and
opportunities
UK-K
K-K
explicit assumptions
Researching
Fundamental
Layer
UK-UK
K-UK
K-UK
Creating new knowledge
using experts and texts
Impact
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Reut’s Work Cycle: Strategy and Leadership
Identifying a Strategic Gap
Creating New Knowledge
Mapping Community of Impact
Mobilizing Forces for Change
Closing the Gap
Exit
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Training
Grooming Strategic Leaders
for Public Service
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Reut as a School
The Reut Charter
“The Reut Institute sees itself,
among other things, as a school
and a training center for those
able to significantly and
substantially contribute to
realizing our vision.”
“Therefore, Reut will recruit
people who have the will and
capacity to serve this vision,
and will train them for a lifelong journey of contribution.”
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Training Process
1-3
Months
Individual
Capacities
4-6
Months
Teamwork
7-9
Months
10-12
Months
Decision
Support
Project
Management
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Training Components
Technical Skills
Theory
Strategic
Suprise
Relevancy Gap
Placing Strategists
in Public Sector
Methodology
Zionism & Judaism
Policy Reality
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Strategy &
Structure
Model to Emulate
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Reut: Innovative Strategic Units
Current Model
New Model
Core Capacity
Research
Decision Support Services
Human Capital
Content Oriented
Process Oriented
Focus
Gathering & Analyzing Information
Perceptions
Model of Influence
Answers
Questions
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