When to Do Scenario Planning – and When Not to
Scenario planning is a powerful tool, but it’s not the right remedy for all organizations worried about the future.
The Future
Scenario Planning for a Wicked Problem – Climate Change
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.
“The Past is the Only Thing We Know”
The iconoclastic historian John Lukacs, who died this week, was skeptical of the value of prognostication. So is FSG.
Capitalism and the Long Term
The stability of capitalism is threatened by an excessive focus on the short-term. The long term must be a part of decision making, and scenario planning can help.
Intelligent Technology and the Coming Liability Crisis
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…
Alternative Crispr Futures
We’re not yet to designer babies or Gattica, but those futures are no longer science fiction.
23 and Me, You, Everything
Biology is not destiny, but the field of genomics is chock full of powerful implications — for science, medicine, commerce, society and just about anything we can think of.
Scenario Planning for Sustainability
Scenario planning and alternative futures are powerful tools for building corporate consensus around sustainability policies.
40 million people go missing in the future
Demographics, unlike many other scenario-planning factors, is not prone to serious uncertainty, right? Hang on…
Older and Wiser?
This is the second of two pieces about demography, focusing on another aspect, less to do with the population’s overall size than with its structure – specifically the changing composition by age group.