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Peter Evans-Greenwood is a strategist, systems thinker, and Senior Fellow with the ADC Forum. He works at the intersection of emerging technology, institutional change, and business transformation—helping leaders make sense of complex environments and unlock new paths to growth.

Drawing on a background that spans software engineering, management consulting, and applied research, Peter integrates insights from diverse domains to map unfolding system shifts. His work focuses on how institutional legitimacy erodes, how ecosystems adapt, and how we might lead collaboratively through uncertainty—not by predicting the future, but by noticing the patterns already reshaping it.

Peter was a founding Fellow of Deloitte’s Centre for the Edge in Australi ...more

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	The New Instability really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Enterprise Architecture for Business Success by Inji Wijegunaratne, George Fernandez, Peter Evans-Greenwood (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Frank: The Voice

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The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

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