FSG OUTLOOK

When it comes to disaster preparedness, no one comes out looking all that good.

"It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

Clients are using FSG's capsule scenarios to jumpstart planning for a post-COVID world.  Gerard Smith explains. 

What's ahead for the US after the 2020 election and beyond? Prediction is perilous. But FSG has collaborated on a set of short-term scenarios that suggest several plausible paths ahead for US politics, policy and the economy.

Wicked problems resist resolution, but as guest contributor Mark Trexler argues, the uncertainties surrounding climate change should not prevent organizations considering the implications and planning accordingly. 

Intelligent technologies are so woven into our lives that we no longer see them.  They are not us.  Yet we permit them to decide for us...

Are we nearing a tipping point?  

There have been a lot of historical analogies being thrown around lately.

The presidency of Donald Trump has caused a lot of smart people (and a lot of less-well-educated ones) to dig up stuff from the past that they see as relevant to our current situation - and to where we may be headed in the near future.