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Feb 21
4 min

Why uncertainty matters to boards

We’re proud to have been able to publish excerpts from SAMI Associate Garry Honey’s new book, “Navigating Uncertainty” over recent weeks....

Oct 20, 2023
4 min

Adaptive Planning in National Infrastructure

SAMI have long advocated the development of Adaptive Plans as a means of developing “robust decisions in uncertain times”. The concept is...

Sep 28, 2023
7 min

China – A Superpower’s Growing Pains

In January 2022, we published a blog looking at possible futures for China. This was part of a series of blogs based on the scenarios...

Sep 13, 2023
3 min

New National Risk Register announced.

The Government has formally announced and published an updated version of the National Risk Register. It is the external version of the...

May 11, 2023
3 min

Widening Your Stakeholder Analysis

A good stakeholder analysis has always been an important part of policy or strategy development, especially in the area of futures...

Apr 27, 2023
2 min

Software resilience and security - BCS view

BCS (the Chartered Institute for IT, formerly the British Computer Society) has recently answered a “Call for views on software...

Jan 26, 2023
3 min

Adaptive Plans – a dynamic approach to putting scenarios into action

How do you plan in a world that is so uncertain? How do you prepare when so many different futures could emerge? The experience of the...

Nov 17, 2022
3 min

Introducing the Sustainability Innovation Pathway Framework

Those of you who get our monthly newsletter, "Foresight and Strategy" , will have seen our announcement of the launch of our...

Mar 31, 2022
5 min

Transatlantic Co-operation on Strategic Foresight

On 14th March, 2022, Maros Sefcovic, Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight held a...

Nov 25, 2021
6 min

EC SAFIRE Scenarios: The Journey Game

This is the third in a series of ten blogs based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK,...

Nov 10, 2021
7 min

Using foresight to develop strategy and policy

This is the first in a series of blogs based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus,...

Oct 21, 2021
4 min

COP26: Goal Two – ambition meets politics

Last week’s blogpost looked at COP26 Goal 1, which we concluded was too little, delivered too slowly. Today’s news from the UN...

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