Learn how we have helped clients across industry verticals to chart successful paths into the future.
Scenario Planning for Leadership in Stressful Environments
Alternative futures (scenario) planning has traditionally been the tool of choice for leaders concerned about potentially disruptive long-term challenges in their future operating environment. Alternative
Scenario-Based Strategic Planning for Specialty Medical Boards
FSG has developed and applied a powerful and dynamic strategic-planning process for medical specialty boards. Specialty boards (e.g., the American Board of Internal Medicine) certify
Scenario Planning for Health Care and Medicine
Since 2012, Futures Strategy Group has been deeply involved in exploring the future of health care and medicine in the US. This work has evolved in partnership with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), a relationship that continues to the present day.
The Future of Recreation and Sport
What will be the social-political-cultural-economic backdrop for sports and recreation in 2025? This was the big question facing planners at a global marketer of consumer products and services facing both competitive challenges and uncertainties in a rapidly changing marketplace.
Enterprise Strategy for Consumer Products
Across diverse business sectors, many of FSG’s clients have effectively adopted scenario-based strategic planning as a tool to spur creative and innovative thinking. But equally impressive are the firms, often in mature sectors, which have embraced scenario planning primarily as a means of strategic prioritization and alignment, with break-out thinking a secondary priority.
Guiding Strategic Direction in Financial Services
In a pilot exercise, FSG helped a division of a major life insurance company both critically evaluate its current direction and identify some potential new business ideas in what is now a mature market segment.
Hands-On Training in Scenario Planning
FSG believes there’s only one way to properly learn how to do scenario planning, and that is to actually do it, in a real strategic context, and not as a generic business case from outside the organization.
The Future of Transportation Infrastructure and Development
NASA Aeronautics has the responsibility to provide high-risk, high-payoff technology capabilities and research infrastructure to support the nation’s aeronautics sector. This meant anticipating the needs of a huge and vital national economic sector – and further, anticipating the potential desires of the consumers, businesses, and government of the future.
Using Scenarios to Build Robust Retail Drug Strategies
A major regional drugstore chain with an excellent reputation for customer service was concerned about the threat arising from Internet-based competition. The company needed a long-range plan that would take into account the future retailing environment for general merchandise, OTC products, and regulated pharmaceuticals.
Alternative Futures for Enduring Business Continuity Solutions
A major investment bank hard hit by the September 11th terrorist attacks engaged us to apply the scenario planning methodology to help them develop business continuity plans.
A New Strategic Direction for a Global Securities Firm
A financial services firm was facing major risks and challenges as a result of government regulations, technology change, globalization, cost pressures and non-traditional competition. We
Scenario Planning for Emergency and Disaster Management
For the past several years, FSG has provided strategy and long-term planning support to a range of administrators, managers, and operators challenged with building preparedness in the face of increasingly complex and impactful emergency- and disaster-management situations.
Project Horizon: Interagency Collaboration in Global Affairs
In 2005, there was a growing realization that agency silos were not serving the United States government well. A number of incidents had dramatized the need for greater contact and more effective cooperation among the departments and agencies that had critical roles to play in foreign affairs.
Strategy and Contingency Planning in Agriculture
A large chemical company had made a huge, multi-billion dollar bet on a new technology. Together, we identified some future conditions that could occur that would devalue that investment.
Scenario Planning for Automative Product Strategy
The client was one of the world’s largest corporations and a full-range global manufacturer of automobiles and trucks. It was also one of the world’s largest financial services organizations. The firm’s mission was to provide vehicle transportation for businesses and consumers worldwide.
Evergreen II: Instilling Strategic Intent in the US Coast Guard
In 2006, we began work on the second cycle of Project Evergreen under Commandant Thad Allen. Evergreen II was a comprehensive four-year strategy and planning cycle, envisioned both as a tool for developing long-range enterprise strategies and as a process for instilling strategic intent throughout the Coast Guard.
Scenarios to Guide R&D in Global Pharma
FSG developed a model and evaluation process for assessing the viability of yet-to-be developed products.
Imagining the Air Transport System of the Future
FSG facilitated a scenario-planning process for Next Gen – the Joint Planning and Development Office for the Next Generation Air Transportation System. This resulted in the development of long-term strategies for the US air transportation enterprise.
Long-Term Scenario Planning for the Panama Canal
We’ve been involved in some pretty big decisions, but one of the biggest was the one that had to be made by the Panamanian government about the future of its patrimonio nacional, the Panama Canal.
Evergreen I: Building Strategic Foresight at the Coast Guard
The Chief of Staff of the U.S. Coast Guard launched “Project Evergreen” in the fall of 2003 to create a new set of strategies for the USCG in the post-9/11 operating environment, in which the Service was now part of the Department of Homeland Security.
USCG Scenario Reassessment Post 9/11
In 2002, the Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard invited us back to reassess “Long View” in light of the events of 9/11 and the imminent migration of the Coast Guard to the new Department of Homeland Security. FSG succeeded in reuniting most of the former Long View Core Team for this exercise.
Providing a Long-Range Look for the U.S. Coast Guard: Project Long View
In 1998, the U.S. Coast Guard hired us to develop a long-range strategy using our scenario planning methodology. The project became known as “Long View.” Five scenarios were developed to evaluate both current and potentially new missions and strategic options for the Coast Guard, across a range of plausible national security and maritime transportation environments.
Scenarios for Product Introduction for a Medical Equipment Manufacturer
The client had two new products about to be introduced into the medical imaging market. The company anticipated needing its first modification/upgrade within a short timeframe. They wanted a scenario-based forecast of future customer needs and intervening competitor actions to identify the product characteristics necessary for a competitive advantage in the out-year market.
Scenarios to Estimate Future Motor Vehicle Demand in Latin America
Market planning in Latin America is difficult in the best of circumstances. Markets historically have tended to undergo boom and bust cycles; this complicates the job of capital investment and financial planning.
Pursuing Globalization and Identifying Contingencies at a Professional Services Firm
When the leadership of a major professional services firm decided to globalize, we offered them a scenario-based planning approach to create a cohesive strategy while helping the new executive group to come together. Over the course of an intense three-day executive workshop, a range of future market conditions was considered and explored.
Regional Bank Strategy to Thrive Under Deregulation
The client was acclaimed as one of the most successful and best managed banks in the U.S. in the mid-1990s, but top management was concerned that their existing strategy had little room for sustained future growth. Using a scenario-based approach, we helped them formulate a new strategy for regional growth in banking and simultaneous national growth in non-banking sectors.