FSG Blog

Getting Ahead of the Incident

Managing today’s incident while also planning for tomorrow is not easy, but we leave ourselves vulnerable to being consumed by the crisis if we don’t.

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. 

Scenario Planning for Sustainability

Scenario planning and alternative futures are powerful tools for building corporate consensus around sustainability policies. 

The Wrong Way to Use History

There have been a lot of historical analogies being thrown around lately.

The presidency of Donald Trump has caused a lot of smart people (and a lot of less-well-educated ones) to dig up stuff from the past that they see as relevant to our current situation – and to where we may be headed in the near future.

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?