Anticipatory Organization | Accounting & Finance

Shift From Playing Agile Defense to
ANTICIPATORY OFFENSE

WHY ANTICIPATION

WATCH THE PRODUCT DEMO

/CU

Already purchased? Click here to login »

The Anticipatory Organization® Learning System is a results-driven transformation accelerator for leadership teams to elevate relevancy and accelerate innovation and growth.

VIEW DETAILED SALES INFORMATION

You can use this model to:

Elevate Planning

Planning becomes highly focused, strategic and actionable when you identify the Hard Trends that will happen (future facts) and the Soft Trends that might happen (future assumptions). Plans are elevated when the opportunities to influence those trends are pinpointed.

Accelerate Innovation

Innovation becomes an urgent priority, and disruption becomes a choice when you use our Anticipatory Strategies and Tools. Become a positive disruptor by creating the disruptions that need to happen. Don’t risk becoming the disrupted, instead, learn to accurately identify disruptions before they disrupt

Transform Results

Results become predictable and exponential when anticipatory thinking is applied. Teams move from reacting to change to driving it—boosting agility, accelerating growth, and consistently seizing emerging opportunities ahead of the competition.

"Identifying future trends and seizing the opportunities in the present is the key to our success – and it’s a skill we can learn." - Daniel Burrus

This Is Not A Passive Online Learning Experience

It’s an Interactive Award-Winning Transformation Accelerator

Very seldom does a learning system spark innovative thinking & real paradigm shifts throughout an organization. That’s why we pair cutting-edge, engaging single-concept videos & rapid application tools with the following 3 key elements:

1.) Future-Focused Learning Frameworks

Unlike traditional training models that react to change, our system empowers teams to anticipate it. Leveraging Daniel Burrus’ Hard Trend methodology, learners are trained to separate future certainties from uncertainties—transforming disruption into opportunity. This proactive mindset becomes a foundational operating system for strategic innovation.

2.) Real-Time Application Tools

Each concept is paired with practical, fast-action tools that guide learners in applying what they've learned to their current roles and objectives. Whether you're an executive, manager, or team member, you’ll immediately use what you learn to identify problems before they happen and solve them before they become crises.

3.) Scalable Culture Shift

This is not a one-and-done course—it’s a scalable movement. Through short, digestible modules designed for high engagement, organizations foster a shared language of anticipation. As more teams adopt the anticipatory mindset, the entire enterprise becomes more agile, opportunity-focused, and resilient in a world of accelerating change.

The Result?

Organizations that implement the Anticipatory Organization Learning System experience measurable increases in innovation, speed to market, and employee engagement. This system doesn’t just train individuals—it transforms entire companies into opportunity-creating powerhouses.

A Results-Based Transformation Accelerator

BURRUS RESEARCH

Imagine Your Entire Organization Anticipating More & Reacting Less

For over 30 years, Daniel Burrus has been a strategic advisor to the highest levels of both business and government leaders worldwide, helping them to identify disruptions before they disrupt, problems before they happen, and game-changing opportunities.

He changes how his clients think about the future, planning, innovation, disruption, and, most importantly, what is possible.

Daniel’s AO Learning System teaches you his entire anticipatory methodology for accurately predicting & seizing growth opportunities.

VIEW BURRUS RESEARCH VIDEOS

The Anticipatory Organization® Model

When you use this transformation accelerator model, you’ll understand how to:

Know What’s Next —Transform Planning:

HARD TRENDS will happen; they are future facts – they provide Certainty. SOFT TRENDS might happen – they can be influenced. The Three Digital Accelerators provide accurate timeframes. Transformation becomes your advantage.

Develop Opportunities —Transform Innovation:

Every HARD TREND provides a new opportunity. Learn to use the Eight Hard Trend Pathways to Innovation and anticipate disruptions, problems, and customer needs, to identify game-changing opportunities.

Shape the Future —Transform Culture:

Apply a shared language, strategies, and tools to make rapid change an advantage. Use certainty to sell your ideas, transform how you Communicate & Collaborate, and become a Positive Disruptor.

Accelerate Success— Transform Results:

When your entire team shares the Anticipatory Organization Mindset that’s based around the certainty of HARD TRENDS, it will drive your organization’s strategic velocity and accelerate success.

A New Kind of Learning for a New Kind of Leader

The Anticipatory Organization® is an accelerated, results-focused learning system designed for today’s pace of change. Each video is:

FOCUSED

One powerful concept per video, delivered directly by futurist and innovation expert Daniel Burrus.

CONCISE

Built for the era of micro-learning. Each video takes just minutes, aligned with modern cognitive science to maximize retention.

ACTIONABLE

Immediately reinforced with a Job Aid and Rapid Application Activities that guide the learner to apply what they’ve learned in real-world situations—starting the same day.

First-Hand Results

The Anticipatory Organization provides a compelling methodology to enable each of us to identify future trends and meaningful opportunities in a time of hyper change. Simple in its approach, yet truly transformational in its results.”

We used Daniel Burrus’ Anticipatory Organization Learning System for a very-talented group of finance professionals. The experience was fantastic, very productive, innovative and inspirational. I personally recommend this approach to anyone that would like to be more strategic, more impactful and better prepared to solve complex problems.”

Anticipation is absolutely necessary. It’s a competency every individual must address."

The Anticipatory Organization Learning System provides a solid framework for how current and future leaders can learn to be better at identifying opportunities and shape decisions in a dynamic environment.”

Your businesses will be better able to adapt to today’s environment."

What makes The Anticipatory Organization Learning System unique is that it goes beyond spotting future trends or foreseeing industry fads and trains our professionals to know what our clients will need down the road so they are prepared to offer those services to them now. In many cases, this may mean identifying needs that clients have yet to realize exist…or will exist in the near future.”

If you want to be ahead, if you want to best-in-class, anticipation is a must."

Our world has gotten so complex and so rapidly changing that the issues get cloudy. [Gleaning] the certainty out of all that fog is critical."

This is a set of strategies for making your firm work better in the future."

Anticipation. I’ve never really thought about it being a skill you can learn. It gave me great hope for this profession. How do you take people who are not naturally futuristic, visionary people and give them that skill. Up until now we’ve heard you had to hire someone as a consultant. Today I heard, ‘You can do this! You’ve got to put time into this, you have to put work into it, you have to change the way you think. But this is something you can do.’ Anticipation is absolutely something you can do and use in your firm."

The Anticipatory Organization Learning System has allowed us to efficiently and cost effectively train over 200 of our Top Leaders and as a result, we have significantly elevated our company’s strategic plans. We have also accelerated our investments in specific technologies and new products, which has given us a significant new competitive advantage.”

The Anticipatory Organization Learning System helps establish a mindset, a common language and eventually a culture of being anticipatory for our clients. By making this anticipatory skillset a core strength of our teams, it brings creative and new ideas that make us more valuable to our clients and it creates a game changer for our firm.”

VIEW AO TESTIMONIAL VIDEOS

THE ANTICIPATORY ORGANIZATION® | ACCOUNTING & FINANCE EDITION CURRICULUM IS AVAILABLE NOW

To purchase for your group, contact Pam Devine, Director of Customized Learning | pam.devine@aicpa-cima.com | 410-736-9266

The Anticipatory Organization® is a trademark of Burrus Research, Inc. and is used under license.

Shift From Playing Agile Defense to ANTICIPATORY OFFENSE