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?
Technology
Two FSG Clients – One Lesson
Going in two directions at once in the Panama Canal
This Never Happened
Future scenarios require a past, because there's no data about the future.
How We Might Not Have Gotten to Now
Steven Johnson’s How We Got to Now – and why we might not get to Then.
Why Driverless Cars Are Still Not
Autonomous vehicle technology has made great strides, but a fascinating confluence of non-technology factors continues to inhibit the sector.
Robust Near-Earth Asteroid Scenarios
Scenario planners are always on the lookout for “wild cards” — low-probability, high-impact events that can occur across multiple scenarios. Like near-Earth asteroids.
Scenario Planning for the “Overexamined” Life
"It's rampant narcissism!" our client said last week, exasperated.
Dearly Beloved
Scenario planning for the inevitable.
400-Word Scenario #7: No More Newspapers
Print newspapers seem to be going away. What happens when they do? It's not all about ink and paper.