One of the lesser known long-running RPG series is Ys (pronounced ees). The story is shot through with humor that plays out in the script, but also in the many expressive character animations packed into the game. An abundance of quests and the freedom to carve out your own path in its world is almost overwhelming. There's a great quote by an activist. Now I know this from my own personal experience, my other half is Spanish, how something seemingly innocuous, just words or comments can be taken in completely the wrong way. And just for the context of the audience as well, like before I took on my current role, I used to be a management consultant. Coal is terrible for carbon. ), Presentation (Is its sound, music, and/or visual style particularly strong? Even if WoW never evolved past this vanilla state, it would still be remembered fondly as an incredible RPG filled with epic dungeons, surprisingly compelling Player vs. A Sega Game Gear game, Shining Force: Final Conflict, linked the plots of Shining Force and Shining Force II. Yeah, if I make it really hard for people, of course they won't do it to the extent we want. I always kind of felt like, "OK, well, it's OK. So what will it do to the vulnerable, to the poor? But on the front of the drag queen being in the office, it's well announced; it's optional attendance. We can measure it with the way that our eyes respond to things. [ October 31, 2022 ] Florida Officials Look Into Allegations of Ballot Harvesting Operation After Democrat Blows Whistle News [ October 31, 2022 ] Global Digital IDs Are Coming To America and Nobody Is Allowed to Talk About It News [ October 31, 2022 ] We Were Lied To: Ben Shapiro Finally Admits He Was Wrong to Promote Vaccines News It's just absolutely not necessary to be that person to be a great CEO or a great C-suite executive. We've just for some reason chosen to ignore it. You need to have a CEO, the board, the leadership team of the company, ready to put the spotlight on procurement, ready to have a person from procurement join the board, ready to have that person from procurement sitting on the same floor as you are.Why? That cannot last forever. With the traditional story of a martial arts student thrust on a quest to save their master, Jade Empire wowed players with its engrossing world and its surprisingly nuanced dual philosophies, the Way of the Open Palm and the Way of the Closed Fist (mirroring BioWares success developing light and dark paths for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic). Or 50% or 90%, reasonable people can disagree. It singlehandedly breathed new life into the genre with its polished presentation, deep farming systems, and remarkable freedom. So, it's not like you have to invest now, for a return in ten years time.And I think that's one of the challenges of companies, is to make sure that you're actually generating value as you go, and building the capabilities and extracting the value from those capabilities as you then focus on the next wave or the next dimension of this.GEORGIE: I hear what you're saying about the benefits of changing into a company that can try something, innovate, risk failure. The inspiration, if you like. When we have had say, for example, floods in Thailand or we have had tsunamis in Japan, or it's not uncommon that we have hurricanes on the Gulf coast of the United States, we have disruptions in supply chains and particular industry value chains suffered during those times.Right now we have several of those things at once. I work with a fairly conservative base of clients as it is, and I've always been out, but for whatever reason, and I've never had an issue and I've been very lucky there. Because, well, my mom was always the main breadwinner. It's a privilege for a CEO to have the license to do that versus just thinking about like what they're going to deliver over the next year or two in terms of performance.It's a privilege to realize that coming with this leadership role is the responsibility, but also the opportunity to make a difference in the world beyond, and that's no longer seen as: you're not doing your job, it's now seen as it's part of you doing your job. They need to be presented both. reach out to those people who make decisions in the company. "NAN: Heck no, as my daughter would say. So it's possible, but in large companies, it's almost exactly the opposite is a much more common scenario. So it's really about identifying what are the drivers behind the carbon emissions to be able to identify where to act. He's a holder of 12 patents and author of "Trillions: Thriving in the Information Ecology. Had you ever looked at it in the same way that you do now? This is The So What from BCG.JOHANNA BENESTY: Health equity is not about charity anymore. I don't think there's a way back to source in Russia quite soon. But what if you looked at it as an opportunity to build that advantage, an opportunity to actually think, well, what if we are prepared better than the competition for the next shock that might come. As is my role. Sometimes all a game needs is a second chance, and Odin Sphere got one with Odin Sphere Leifthrasir in 2016. I'm not going to solve everything.You know, I think there's been a lot of very well intended work on topics like racial equity and the like that have been trying to bring a lot of discourse into the workplace, and it's really interesting and it's really important, but at some point you start to say, "Okay, is that book club, is that going to be the thing that actually changes the outcome for somebody at work?" With splashy real-time combat and eye-catching anime cut scenes, this collection helped prove that CD was the gaming medium of the future. I want you to be as creative as you can. And I built more capacity because things that are high cognitive load can either deplete you or they can help you regenerate. That's a place to value hunt. We can bring a lot of innovation to this and there's some energy now but it's a very early stage. What's the plan?GEORGIE: Charmian, thank you so much. With that out of the way, lets look whether the science supports whats being said. Even after you get a grip on the current inflation problem, you'll still live in the next many years with more upside risk to inflation, as opposed to the downside risk that we had pre-COVID.I mean, it's easy to forget, but the last 20 years or so was about managing too-low inflation. I'm a financial journalist, people wanted to know about their finances. So, even that in itself is an unlock on innovation, which is quite exciting.GEORGIE: We've spoken about hidden talents, and the main focus of this podcast was of course about internal hires, but just briefly, Nithya, with all your research, where else can we look?NITHYA: Yeah. Luca Blight is an especially twisted and evil villain in a genre filled with great villains. And it actually made me, I would say, worse. Do they feel they're appreciated or even celebrated for the unique identity and diversity they bring into work on a daily basis? Like, do I have a pre-planned approach that I say, okay well, whenever the forecaster says, the odds are more than 70%, I bring my umbrella. Few things stick out more in black American speech than the pronunciation of ask as ax. And when I say that it sticks out, Im being polite. We spend justover $3 trillion every yearin the United States on health care. Terra is actually Tina in the Japanese version, but playtesters hated it. We're definitely not getting diversity in tech that's racial, and we're getting more gender diversity, but there's an opportunity for more. But it's a huge progress compared to the situation we were in. That I mean, there's many people who have a view that we will move into this world of in real life where sort of utilitarian functional and in our virtual worlds, our true self comes out. The other thing also is using your expertise as companies to influence decisions, right? So I think corporations must lead, to be honest. How do I measure my employees? You'd have AI that can adapt with that child?LEILA: Yes, children change, but technology is also very adaptive. As big as the Dark Souls games are today, it's still pretty easy to find players who've never even heard of their PS3-exclusive predecessor Demon's Souls. Climate change, migration, and COVID have exacerbated longstanding problems, not just between countries, but within them. And that's why that bias against caregiving, the fact that we don't recognize caregiving as valuable, we often don't pay for it, or we underpay for it. They seem so linear and not just linear, they work within an ecosystem that is large and seemingly so immovable. Role-playing games have a long and fascinating history. Throw in a magic system that uses an element grid that ties into the stamina meter, and youre looking at a mighty deep combat system. Most notably, Ni no Kunis visuals were heavily inspired by famed Japanese animators Studio Ghibli makers of films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away and Ghibli provided the games gorgeous animated cutscenes. For many in the travel industry, and I'm thinking big airlines, for example, where do you see their space for that sort of adaption? That you can actually build that culture in any environment. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas functionally extinct. Extinction Rebellion said Billions will die and Life on Earth is dying. Vice claimed the collapse of civilization may have already begun., Few have underscored the threat more than student climate activist Greta Thunberg and Green New Deal sponsor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But she highlighted that what mattered most to Gen Z consumers, was authenticity of brand. These are just three examples of where we need to make sure businesses play the right role to ensure education evolves in the right direction.GEORGIE: Before we end the podcast, I want to go back to the start if that's all right, when you spoke about what we can do to thrive, and your third point, and I like this because I think it's a quite nice, hopefully uplifting, end to the podcast when we've spoken about perhaps some of the troubles that lay ahead, but you said it could lift each other up working towards a better social equity. So let's go with the first one, see how this works. We'd love to know your thoughts. It does require a change of mindset, it does require reprioritization, it requires some investment. But every company can control their culture. Compared to other games in its genealogy like Baldurs Gate and Planescape: Torment Icewind Dale II is much more focused on action. You know, we actually are righting what have been intensely discriminatory and unequal processes that have manifested through time, and we are trying to reshape behaviors and outcomes such that they reflect what should be sort of everybody getting their fair share at the end of the day, and that is very painful.But I think the there's another piece of it, which is you can focus on how do I better allocate a total quantity of things or you can say how do I actually make that quantity of things bigger and more substantive and more kind of inclusive of everybody? So I find this discussion always a bit theoretical, but on a more fundamental level, in my view, the system that we have right now is the best that can come up with the enterprise, the degree of innovation to create the new business models that we will need to turn our economies net zero, to come up with the new technologies, we now need to fill the gap where we haven't found the solution yet.What we've seen in the past decade is that in power, for example, solar, which 25, 30 years ago was still a technology that you only used in space shuttles, is now one that in India is cheaper even for coal power plant operators to use than shoveling their own coal in their power plants. So many manufacturers in north America, for example, right now we're facing shortages of important residents that they need to make plastic products. As long as you keep those beliefs at the back of your mind, I think we're stalled. What about mass migration? So these are companies that have delivered a successful digital transformation and are starting to pivot beyond just fixing the basics, toward things like innovation. Which is, you don't have enough ideas or a big enough portfolio of future possibilities so that you renew yourself. It's a game that's focused on the outdoors, specifically a lovely region named "Alola" modeled on Hawaii, and the hours that follow deliver a satisfying balance of roleplaying and Pokemon battles. I think it's an incredibly good word for exactly what's happening in that moment, you know? I mean, hopefully we're never going to get a situation like COVID again, but it has exposed issues here.DUSTIN BURKE: Sure.GEORGIE FROST: Or can we just make certain tweaks at the side that will be enough to make sure that this doesn't happen again.DUSTIN BURKE: Right, I don't think tweaks will be enough. And, as I'm hearing, access to these talents has greatly helped them actually deliver on their pretty ambitious digital transformation roadmap.GEORGIE FROST: We have great technology. We have the metaverse. But the claim I'm making is that if you are a driver who has decent medium range vision and the ability to react well, then actually the brakes enable you to go much faster. Here's a new aspect of our employee value proposition, and we're actually going to reward managers who help their talent sort of find new opportunities. So you know, we are partners for other coalitions like Open For Business, World Economic Forum, Partnership for LGBTI Equality. If you like this podcast, why not hit subscribe and leave a rating wherever you found us? There are wildfires in Indonesia, the Amazon rainforest, Siberia, the Arctic, she said. That is happening on mitigation, but that is not yet happening here. If the causes are manmade, the solutions must be, too. Possibly not far enough. We're talking about spending $3 to $5 trillion a year for 30 years. And that's why leaning on allyship is just as important as leaning on fellow queer mentors who implicitly have a bit more license to go there with you.The problem is just by statistics and the realities of our corporate world, a majority of senior people are not queer, by a huge margin. News We can learn from this pandemic that people are motivated by the personal and the actionable. Is it a jovial tone? Early ideas for a title were "Dark Race" and "Dark Ring," but both were scrapped due to controversial connotations overseas. Op-Ed: Netanyahus return to power with a coalition of racists is appalling. It will take quite a while and it doesn't happen overnight. So by partnering our resources, that's actually also an agent for broader societal change.GEORGIE: Do you think that values have become, you know, more important for a company nowadays than they ever have been?KUSHAL: Yeah, I absolutely think that is the case. And it will not be enough to hike a few times and then cut again.Markets expect the Fed to cut as soon as early 2023 again, to cut rates again. So while all these drivers hopefully are moving in the right direction and we've seen hopefully the peak in inflation, policy must make sure that you now keep this on a downward trend. And there is a price premium of 30-something percent on average. I'm going to stick it to mom and get that cereal, right? It was a freak, one-in-a-million event that won't be repeated. So we're chatting and he said, "Hey, I just want to mention, like you deepen your voice in meetings. Maybe we built this cognitive bias when we were hunting wooly mammoths, and we don't need it anymore, but these systems and these companies have learned ways to do what's called dark patterns, which are basically design patterns that trap you in these cognitive capacity, draining situations.GEORGIE FROST: In that regard, then it's the answer to have solutions. And when we talk about education or certainly when I talk about education, I'm not thinking classroom and campuses. It's meant to have us rethink some of the boundaries and find new sources of advantage.At the core of this, sustainability is a source of advantage. Are we witnessing a reversing or indeed a reshaping of decades of what seems unrestrained globalization? It's not meant to be some fuzzy, theoretical approach. So we have to lean in on every possible solution in the market. And I said, "why?" Innovative for sure, but also preserving the right values. How much? So if there is a company which can create a local embassy of inclusion, you know, where at least within the four walls of the company, it actually becomes a huge unlock because you're tapping into talent.GEORGIE: Today, I'm talking to Kushal Khandhar, Global Pride@BCG Manager and responsible for shaping the company's global LGBTQ diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy.KUSHAL: The way I look at it, values are part of the DNA of the company. The original plan was to publish on XBLIG, but the games scope widened during development and was picked up by publisher Chucklefish Games. I mean 10% seems very low, but I'm wondering if there's an ideal number of internal hires you would like to have. Children are developing and changing all the time. It helps other people find us too. Do we need to get this out more? But for whatever reason, in this instance, I felt the need to hide it. The first Witcher game, based on Polish author Andrzej Sapkowskis novels, was great in its own right, but the sequel, Assassins of Kings, exploded the series out of its niche and into the mainstream. But incipient trends, nascent trends, anomalies that could become a trend, are quite important. So, it's coming, but we need more.GEORGIE: What conversations are you having or hearing in boardrooms?CHARMIAN: A lot of it is around how do we decarbonize, what's the way to do that? Companies best job candidates often are often their own overlooked employees, explains BCG's Nithya Vaduganathan and Gloat's Brian Hershey in the latest episode of BCG's flagship podcast. "This is where the engines can actually proactively suggest things based on their skills and say, "Hey look, have you considered X, Y, and Z?" I call it digital reengineering. How can you measure it? So, it's very exciting for me, but apart from mansplaining, how else does language manifest itself in your role? It built on everything fans love about the series, from its strategic turn-based battles to its focus on story and characters. We've got so many more things begging for our attention, whether it's the social media, asking us to thumbs up something or like something. Those are all ethical questions that need to be posed and agreed on universally by everyone so that education moves in the right direction.GEORGIE: Glad you mentioned that because I was going to talk about, as a parent yourself, just looking at the risks at the moment, that being online and being in a digital world for children, pose--online bullying, and we can go very dark and very deep-- troubling for a parent? Are we first steps there?SARAH WILLERSDORF: Yeah, it's interesting. We know that users love it, they don't want to fill out complicated applications and screening questions. This isn't just some trickling. So for me, it's always been there. I think the opportunity is finding those green shoots, those places where the consumer is going to be optimistic. Thats because there are basically two games on the disc. And we can think, okay, first of all, make sure they're a useful set. And then in my virtual world, you know, I'm an exhibitionist and that's where the real me shows up. But in fact, it's many different countries with many different regulations and different distributor networks and different health system structures and different languages.And so if you want to address Africa, in fact, you really have to address 54 different countries and understand 54 different situations. It's helping bring you to the decision that the best version of Georgie Frost would make for herself were it not so overwhelming to be out in the world.So, I mean, it cuts a little bit both ways. You're there to coach and inspire and help and provide connection. "GEORGIE: That's made me think of two things. Now, the difference between an anomaly and a trend is manifold, actually. Later games that were influenced by Ultima Underworld include Deus Ex, System Shock, and The Elder Scrolls. Climate change seems to many an armageddon in slow motion and its dangers can feel impersonal and its causes diffuse. There's always a lot of complexity. If you think about a Roblox or Fortnite or Animal Crossing or any of these, because they're already transacting in that world, they have relationships in that world, they have communities in that world, they build things, they play things, they socialize.And so, you know, fashion and luxury I think is experimenting in that place. Modders managed to activate the code for the multiplayer mode Troika abandoned. Docking the ships allowed you to strut about towns or venture deep into menacing dungeons, where you'd partake in a unique combat system that made your party share one pool of spirit points for spells and thus added a fun dose of risk to each action. So because you went from double digit inflation in the 70s down to very, very low inflation in the last many years, that trip from double digit to very low levels of inflation and rates allowed valuations of many asset classes to spike.You have a lower interest rate, you discount future revenue with a lower interest rate, that pushes up the present value of many assets. Or maybe it comes down to the game's impressive malleability: you can craft any type of hero you want, go where you want, do what you want, and do it when you want. Those are just unappetizing and they're really not sustainable in the face of intense competition.So we need, I think some major rethink of how we actually get to more resilient supply chains in a way that people will find acceptable and stick with.GEORGIE FROST: Well, talk to me about that. When it initially launched in 2004, Blizzards World of Warcraft rapidly became the most popular and beloved MMORPG ever made thanks to its accessibility, exceptionally high degree of polish, and its sheer size and scope. It's going to be very exciting to see that intersection of digital and sustainability and how that's going to create the solutions that we need for tomorrow.I'm personally very excited in BCG for the team that has been working on leveraging artificial intelligence to help companies dynamically understand their very complex carbon footprint and be able to run scenarios and simulate their business decisions and democratize sustainability throughout the organization because digital is creating different interfaces to that very complex data to different parts of the organization and helping them understand and grasp and make decisions with sustainability data in the same way that you would with financial data.To me, that's one of the most powerful tools we are going to have as we move forward, is where can digital create a dialogue at the intersections? So you can explore, and investigate, and learn. You can have all kinds of theories about why that's happening and how the populations of those folks might be different, but the answer is pretty easy. What are some of my assumptions that need changing? This is menial beginning work but I was laughing about the concept.GEORGIE FROST: Exclusive BCG podcast, yeah?ASHLEY GRICE: Exclusive, you're right. There's some parallel there. So we're starting at a different point. So we do need action from government. The game was bigger and better in every way, with improved combat, celebrated graphics, and much more player freedom (though the series hadnt gone full open world yet, like it would with The Witcher 3). Its rare for a game to try to blend this many ideas into a single package. As people have been on online more and gaming in general has continued to accelerate. Why do you do that?" Its mature story was told through the eyes of a bystander sent on a journey thats rife with political intrigue, danger, and one of the best supporting casts in the series history. These were not things that happened by happenstance. A relatively complex class system and extensive backgrounds for each character helped make the game distinct, while its grid-based combat system made Shining Force II ahead of its time. World of Warcraft reached peak subscriptions in October 2010, at 12 million subscribers. And then of course, when you have done the action, being able to measure the progress.GEORGIE: OK, Charlotte, this is where AI comes riding to the rescue, is it?CHARLOTTE: Yes, it's a data issue, ultimately. And so I'm already seeing hopeful signs from teenagers, even who are very bluntly. We need to think about quality. So it's complicated, but there are ways that you can absolutely put a cost on both the economics and the livelihoods. I say this because I was at a financial services event last night actually, and there were a people there who were saying to me, do you think consumers really care about green anymore with the cost of living crisis, inflation so high, a war going on in Europe? Don't be led by where you think you can experiment because you're thinking too small.Think about where are the places where you can value hunt. All these young people have been misinformed. The only thing that matched its ambitious storytelling was its equally ambitious combat mechanics. It does cause discussion in our household over dinnertime, isn't that what we're supposed to be doing? Thats a good thing, too, because one adventure through this Baldurs Gate-like RPG spans dozens of hours. Rightly so.When you believe that say five, seven, nine, ten years into the future, you're still looking at 7, 8, 9% rate of inflation, well then you want compensation for that. Hopefully it'd be a little lower, but the drivers are so exhaustive and so all-encompassing, you'd still have inflation today even if they had hiked sooner and less aggressively.GEORGIE: What I want to ask as we're talking about the risks of higher rates for longer, but are higher rates always bad? And so that's actually positive stuff.GEORGIE FROST: Mickey, thank you so much. The latter said, The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. Says Thunberg in her new book, Around 2030 we will be in a position to set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will lead to the end of our civilization as we know it., Sometimes, scientists themselves make apocalyptic claims. But, nevertheless, from a political point of view, I think what I'm just outlining would be quite easily sellable in theory, but let's admit it hasn't happened yet. So if you realize that for instance, the issue is that people don't get access to the diagnostic. We think about that in terms of loss of livelihood, for those that were ill and may have long COVID. So do we need some sort of global leadership? Great products and great services are built on experimentation. It was an entire company process to identify all the little initiatives they could be doing, tweaking their own product, the packaging, the production, the energy mix, etc., etc.And at the end of the day, they were 25% of the way through the journey, and that's it. So for me, it's inconceivable to have a long-term strategy that doesn't include some element of the digital agenda that I've been describing. We've actually developed a new platform together called the Product Ecosystem platform which helps companies measure the life cycle impact of their carbon emissions across their product portfolio.GEORGIE: Charlotte, Dexter has outlined there the problem with emissions being so difficult to measure but why are they so difficult to measure accurately? 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