strategic foresight

To meet these challenges and increase the impact of foresight work, we need to rethink our approach from the very beginning of a project.

Just like other iconic duos you already know — Simon & Garfunkel, Kirk & Spock, Sherlock & Watson — strategy and foresight are better together, because they amplify what each element could achieve alone. Strategy without foresight makes companies vulnerable to outside disruption. Foresight without strategy renders scenarios unactionable... See more

My observation is that leadership teams get caught in a cycle of addressing long-term risk with rigid, short-term solutions, and in the process they invite entropy. Teams that rely on traditional linear timelines get caught in a cycle of tactical responses to what feels like constant change being foisted upon them from outside forces. Over time, th... See more

Paul Valéry, the twentieth-century French philosopher, said, “Un fait mal observé est plus pernicieux qu’un mauvais raisonnement.” (A fact poorly observed is more treacherous than faulty reasoning