Remarks on the Scope and Deployment of Integrated Thinking in Business Firms

For at least two decades, some form of Integrated Thinking has been prescribed and initiated in a number of key business activities. These include product development, risk management, corporate reporting, and human resource management. This chapter briefly discusses the corresponding frameworks, in order to infer some insights for today’s implementation of Integrated Thinking. Three new criteria are thereby sketched, which have to do with the costs versus benefits of aggregated information, the contribution to sensemaking, and the room to be left to uncertainty.