VUCA
VUCA is an acronym for the English terms
- volatility ' volatility ' (instability),
- uncertainty ' uncertainty ' ,
- complexity ' complexity ' and
- ambiguity ' ambiguity ' .
It describes difficult framework conditions for corporate management . The term originated in the 1990s at the United States Army War College (USAWC) and was initially used to describe the multilateral world after the end of the Cold War . The term later spread to other areas of strategic leadership and other types of organizations, from education to business.
A strategy for survival in the VUCA World also derives from the abbreviation, namely: vision , vision ' , understanding , comprehension' , clarity , clarity ' , agility , agility ' .
literature
- Oliver Mack, Anshuman Khare [and a.] (Ed.): Managing in a VUCA World . Springer, Heidelberg / New York 2016, ISBN 3-319-16888-6 (English).
- Robert Johansen: Leaders Make the Future. Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World . 2nd Edition. Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco 2012, ISBN 978-1-60994-487-2 (English).