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Why Tilt?

Written by David Gautschi on . Posted in About Tilt.

In the unfolding global energy transition, business decisions are becoming harder and harder to make. Why? There is significant disruption which presents itself as complexity, uncertainty, and confusion. These conditions create pronounced risk in making decisions for companies that need to commit scarce resources… 

  • When the future is unclear 
  • When there are multiple stakeholders with inconsistent objectives 
  • When timing of action is critical
  • When incentives are misaligned
  • When adverse consequences for others not party to the decision are possible 

But DISRUPTION by another name is INNOVATION!

So, what can you do when you and your organization are on the receiving end of innovation that is foisted upon you? How can you innovate to produce the outcomes you desire?

Consider sources of complexity, uncertainty, and confusion that magnify the risk:

  • Technology progress
  • Changing market/industry boundaries
  • Evolving public policy, driven to some extent by the complexities of geopolitics and divisive political factions, which reduces clarity in the direction that states are taking
  • Advocacy masquerading as debate and the inability of decision-makers to understand the distinction.  
  • Shrinking or changing stores of resources, such as…
    • Demographics (e.g., immigration, diversity, cultural conflict, health, education, longevity, mobility)
    • The environment (e.g., food, fresh water, fuel, natural resources, climate)
    • Decaying infrastructures built for an earlier time and obsolescent principal use (e.g., design of cities, transportation systems, electricity systems)

The Goal
In facing disruption that presents complexity, uncertainty, and confusion, adapting to innovation becomes the coin of the realm in business. 

Learning to think out of the box requires:

  • Identifying what box you are in…how to think of the energy systems and how those systems relate to other systems to define life on this planet
  • Understanding the trade-offs that each choice presents
  • Exploring wild ideas – ones that come out of some other boxes, perhaps
  • Thinking critically in judging the wisdom, cost, and risk of any deviation from what you perceive to be the status quo
  • Conjuring comprehensive possible alternative futures that permit you to hedge your strategic bets.

Tilt Global Decisions was established to build a means for decision-makers, especially in business, to grapple with the challenges presented by the global energy transition. We accomplish this in a SAFE setting, one that does not threaten participants’ jobs, the stability of their enterprise, government, or the natural environment. Tilt’s Decision Making Laboratory Experience permits participants to re-learn the basics and apply them to their company’s situation as they acquire new skills to apply to the new environment.

We do not tell clients what to do.
We help them to use what they know
to think critically and imaginatively
in making their own decisions
with confidence and humility.