A Letter to a Great Client
I've had this one written in my head for at least ten years, because some clients are so good that you take nothing for granted.
Scenarios
Mideast Scenarios, or “Damn, We’re Good”
Where will the Arab Spring and Syria take the Middle East? Well, we kind of called it in 2011.
Where Pointy Heads Meet Pointy Pencils: Scenario Planning and Market Modeling
Scenario planning and quantitative modeling can often be clashing analytical tools. But two FSG consultants innovatively combined them for the benefit of a car company in South America.
The Inevitable Not Happening?
The importance of including the seemingly impossible when writing scenarios.
Airline Scenarios: American-US Airways
Normally we are into alternative scenarios. But airlines seem to be stuck in one scenario.
Scenario Planning for the “Overexamined” Life
"It's rampant narcissism!" our client said last week, exasperated.
Two Very Bad Scenario Planning Data Points
Illinois and Ireland and the downside of austerity.
Edward Snowden, Government Surveillance and the Future
Scenarios of future surveillance.
Scenario Planning in the US Government
The U.S. Coast Guard, FSG’s longstanding scenario-planning client, is recognized for its pioneering foresight work in Project Evergreen.
The War on the Future
Some say our era is dominated by the war between the left and the right. But the real war right now is the war of the present against the future.