FSG Blog

Capturing Scenario Planning Value

With any strategic planning exercise, maintaining momentum through the implemention phase can be a challenge.  Here are some important insights we’ve picked up along the way. 

Future Anti-Vaccinators

Opposition to proven preventive measures is not a left-right issue – and metaphorically, it also affects a lot of businesses. 

In the past few days, a mighty attempt has been made by various Media Creatures to shoehorn a controversy over a measles outbreak and non-vaccination of children into yet another left-right bipolar fight.

The Valley of the Shadow

WIll the great institutions of society learn how to live with transparency before transparency destroys them?

Silos, seams and business model reengineering

“Silos” are an inevitable part of any organization; indeed, of any human activity. Even if you confine yourself to individual action, your own mind is thinking within certain categories, usually operating off a mental model that tells you what to expect – “If I do X, then Y will happen” – and what NOT to expect – Z or W or something completely different.

Coase Encounters

This month we salute an article that is a lifetime old, and use it to see where things might go in the next lifetime.