How Audacious Goals and Collaboration Can Build a Better Future
Our modern entertainment and pop culture have taken a distinctly, alarmingly dystopian spin. When is the last time you saw the future depicted as a terrific time and place, filled with people thriving...
View ArticleInfographic: Work Life 2040
Based on current data, we know our lives will be different in 2040. To prepare for the opportunities and challenges of the near future, we must address the skills, technologies, and structures we will...
View ArticleRAPPORT // Anticipatory Democracy is Shaping the Future of the World
Anticipatory Democracy: The public’s active, conscious engagement in collectively shaping the future of their community, state or nation.[1]
View ArticleRAPPORT // These are the New Faces of Connection and Influence
“What I hope to achieve with this protest is attention in the media, so that the media will write about the climate crisis, so that people will somehow open their eyes and see the crisis and treat it...
View ArticleRAPPORT // Unleashing a New Kind of R&D in the ESG Environment
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw Momentum is building around the call for responsible investments focused...
View ArticleHow Upgrading Education will Secure the Future
“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”~ Alvin Toffler The future is discussed by prescient leaders but made...
View ArticleThe Future of Sports Entertainment
Sport entertainment environments, players, fans, and participation mechanisms are changing dramatically. Factors like the ability to generate more and better player analytics, Virtual and Augmented...
View ArticleApplying a 19th Century Innovation to Today’s Talent Crisis
“The public school system is designed to produce a workforce for an economy that will not be there.”- Alvin Toffler, 2007 In the late 19th century, John D. Rockefeller had a vision for the mass...
View ArticleEvery Day is Game Day: Why Enterprise Resilience Matters
For those of us who are Washington Nationals fans, 2019 was an extraordinary season. It even had a storybook ending – a World Series Championship that fans have anticipated since baseball returned to...
View ArticleThe Future of Education
Education is in flux. There is pressure to keep up with the accelerating changes in the workforce and industry. Companies are worried about hiring the specialized skills needed and as a result,...
View ArticleClarity in the Chaos: The Value of ALTERNATE FUTURES® Scenario Planning
We are living in interesting times. More than a century ago, at the dawn of the 20th century, British statesman Joseph Chamberlin declared: “I think that you will all agree that we are living in most...
View ArticleRAPPORT // How the Galapagos Inform Mental Models for Businesses
“A company cannot achieve long-term profits without embracing purpose and considering the needs of a broad range of stakeholders.”-Larry Fink, BlackRockHe did it again. This time head-on. In his 2020...
View ArticleCOVID-19: What Now and What Next
We are in fundamentally changing times. Over the last few weeks, like most people, I have been oscillating between personal stress and anxiety about my family’s preparedness and health, to overwhelming...
View ArticleThe Upside of Crisis Lies in the 'What If'
Pretty much everywhere you look, read, or listen, stories of advancement are met with reasons to think the sky is falling. The global battle against COVID-19 has many organizations scrambling to adapt....
View ArticleInflection Point: Exploring the Lasting Effects of COVID-19
The accelerating pace of change over the last half-century, and especially over the last two decades, has dulled our sense of the extraordinary. We’ve experienced awesome and tragic, seen the...
View ArticleDynamic Crisis Leadership and Business Resilience During COVID-19
A Different Kind of Crisis Requires Different Planning and ResponseWe are thankful for the years of experience we have guiding government and commercial clients through resiliency and disaster planning...
View ArticleA Letter From Our CEO
Digging deeper into the "What Now" and "What Next" of it allMost of the U.S. is currently about a month in to this new social distancing normal. We understand you're in crisis response mode, which can...
View ArticleHow Social Distancing Could Change the Education System
This week we’ll continue to explore the potential lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by looking at how an area familiar to everyone may change: K-12 education.Similar to other changes related to...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Recovery will not follow a V, U, or W curve. There seems to be a prevailing view that once strict stay-home orders are relaxed, then we’ll be in the “new normal.” However, we see society progressing...
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