Looking Back on the Year
We wish our clients, collaborators and friends happy holidays and a prosperous New Year.
Strategy
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.
Designing the Office of Strategic Need
Organizations are managed by people who acquired expertise from experience in an existing operating environment. But operating environments change unrelentingly. How does one get out ahead of this change?
Hate to Say We Told You So…
But we told you so.
Two FSG Clients – One Lesson
Going in two directions at once in the Panama Canal
Scenario Planning and Alternative Futures
Uncluttering the jargon that describes what we do.
How We Might Not Have Gotten to Now
Steven Johnson’s How We Got to Now – and why we might not get to Then.
A Purely Cognitive Argument Against “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”
Why torture almost certainly can't work in the real world.
Unknown Unknowns, Scenarios and Strategic Judgment
Errol Morris’s documentary on Donald Rumsfeld is in the theatres. The film, plus a companion four-part series on the former secretary of defense in the The New York Times, raises interesting questions about knowledge, uncertainty and corporate strategy.