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Disruption is everywhere: it presents both great opportunities and significant threats.
Do you know how to shape your strategy to respond?
What if you had a game plan to navigate disruption?

The Disruption Game Plan presents a tried and tested framework to help senior leaders think differently about disruptive trends and emergent risks, and to act differently when making decisions, joining up thinking on innovation, risk, sustainability and strategy.

By revealing how we can more effectively deal with challenging business environments, this book will help any curious and ambitious senior leader to go beyond a short-term, fire-fighting response, and instead set out to ‘change the game’.

Ruth Murray-Webster is a consultant and expert in risk and organizational change. A former head of the Risk in the Boardroom practice for a major consultancy with extensive senior practitioner experience, Ruth now works with a wide range of public, private and third sector clients through her consultancy Potentiality UK to unlock the potential performance from uncertainty and change.

Eleanor Winton is a consultant and expert in disruption, innovation and foresight and the former head of the Future Institute for a major consultancy. She has extensive experience of working with senior teams to stimulate creative thought and action. Through her consultancy Foresightfully, Eleanor works with organizations to understand what the future might hold for them and to develop innovative strategies in response.

I had a chance to read ARC of this book and it has some thought provoking moments when you start working on your company’s Disruption Game Plan. This plan is a framework that guides any company leader to create a new way to engage teams in innovation, support move outside comfort zone and drive team’s engagement in creativity and disruption. There are different stories that support suggested concepts and it is easy to read through. Important of all is the encouragement to put the knowledge into action.

NetGalley

Easy to read and packed with insights and stories. Thank you!

Amazon

Will help forward thinking Boards and Business leaders embarking on building a sustainable game plan.
Clear concise well thought out framework so relevant for the VUCA world!
Having supported change & transformation projects, Ruth and Eleanor keep it real and get the balance right with practical advice, insights and “connected” thinking on innovation, risk, sustainability and strategy to help you put that game plan into long term action. The advice embodies some crucial leadership skills and mindsets required for a post Covid World.

Amazon

This is a powerful book – do not underestimate how much it will challenge the strategic thinking you might have on disruption, innovation and risk which can make it feel hard at first. But like most approaches that will lead to useful and tangible change, if you stick with it, you will reap the benefits. It’s packed with practical and detailed guidance and stories, illustrating how to make the Game Plan work for you and your organisation

HR Director

Table of Contents

Include the full Table of Contents, with detailed summaries of each chapter. You’re aiming to give a comprehensive, detailed map of what the book will contain.

Part 1: The Call to Action

1. What’s disruption and why the need to act? Establishes the premise and rationale for the book – what’s broken and how we can act to fix it.

2. Dealing with uncertainty without a crystal ball: Outlining the organisational barriers to establishing an effective and consistent game plan for addressing disruption – provides the warrant for the framework described in Chapters 3-6 incl.

Part 2: Developing and maintaining your Game Plan

3. Stimulate and Motivate

Requiring a creative mindset to look widely at what’s happening and what’s possible

4. Facilitate Debate

Requiring an explorative mindset which ensures that alternative viewpoints and options are considered

5. Innovate and Mitigate

Requiring a decisive mindset to commit to action

6. Update and Anticipate

Requiring a curious mindset to ensure the game plan stays relevant

Part 3: Getting started

7. What now?

Bringing the key messages together and a reminder of the call to action. Gives the reader a start point as soon as they put the book down.

FORMAT / ISBN / PUBLICATION DATE / RRP

Hardback / 9781788608435 / December 30, 2025 / £29.99

Paperback / 9781788602488 / May 18, 2021 / £19.99

Ebook / 9781788602471 / May 17, 2021 / £9.99

Paperback and eBook Bundle / £22.49

Ruth Murray-Webster

Dr Ruth Murray-Webster is recognized as a leader of project-based organizational change and risk management performing roles as a practitioner, advisor, facilitator, researcher and author. For more than 30 years Ruth has practised and advanced change and risk management approaches, developing commercially astute strategy, centred around emerging risks and disruptive trends.

Ruth has experience in delivering change objectives in most sectors.
Prior to returning to her own company, Potentiality UK, in 2018, Ruth held appointments as Director, Change Portfolio and Group Head of Risk for a major port operator and Director, Risk in the Boardroom practice for KPMG LLP. Ruth researched organizational change from the perspective of the recipients of change for an Executive Doctorate at Cranfield School of Management between 2008 and 2012. She is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford: Saïd Business School and a Teaching Fellow at Warwick Business School.
Ruth’s interest in risk management arose from a passion to help organizations to take educated risks, not avoid them. She has co-authored four books on the human aspects of risk management and is a popular speaker at conferences and in webinars. She has also published papers in the areas of project complexity, organizational ambidexterity through projects and programmes and multi-paradigmatic perspectives on business transformation programmes. Ruth was Editor of the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition and Lead Editor for the forthcoming (5th edition) of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).
Ruth was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Association for Project Management in 2013 for her services to risk and change. The synergies between the two disciplines continue to drive Ruth’s thinking, writing and practice.

Eleanor Winton

Eleanor Winton is an experienced consultant and recognized keynote speaker on Disruption, Foresight and Innovation. In over 16 years as a consultant, she has helped hundreds of organizations in almost every sector to identify disruptive trends and develop a plan to address those. Prior to setting up Foresightfully in 2017, Eleanor led KPMG LLP’s Future Institute in the UK.

Eleanor is experienced in working with Boards and Executive teams and has designed and led thousands of workshops focused on driving innovation and change. She is well known for her high energy and engaging style which inspires those she works with to engage with the art of the possible and to break silos to drive collaboration.

Her background in forensic investigations is key to her unique approach, which combines creativity with rigour and analytical thinking to ensure that innovation is closely aligned with organizational strategy and results.

She wrote the foreword for UKWA’s report Feeding London in 2030