Like many large organisations and consultancies, the EU’s JRC maintains and monitors a list of megatrends. In their case they have identified fourteen in their “Megatrends Hub”. Although mostly these…
Category: Decision making
Why we are optimists - 2022
It has been a rough year. We’d like to brighten up your thoughts by sharing a few things that make us optimistic, from 2022. Most important is that the serious…
New World Disorder: Welcome to the Diplomatic Kaleidoscope
Our recent blog looked at the emerging concept of “polycrisis” – how in a polynodal world, different problems collided, often with the effect of amplifying each other. The replacement of…
How ‘risk blindness’ threatens the effectiveness of board decisions
A board’s highly sophisticated procedure for making risk decisions can often be undermined by a failure to identify risk in the first place. While behavioural economics aims to understand why…
COP 27 – the road to disaster
As COP27 has staggered to a halt, it’s time to revise your climate change scenarios. Keeping the increase in global temperature to 1.5˚C now seems to be an unlikely outcome,…
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 Sustainability Innovation Pathway Framework. This week’s blog is…