| Why this partnership? | |
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Lodestar is a partnership of three specialty firms, each with distinguishing strengths in scenario planning, collective innovation and business management. The common thread among them is a tradition of collaboration with clients. The Lodestar Collaborative—Board Advisory Services, Collective Intelligence and The Futures Strategy Group—work with a roster of well-known organizations in the United States and around the world. |
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| About Board Advisory Services | |
| Board Advisory Services' contribution to Lodestar is to provide insight into the integration of growth strategies with business- and risk-management practices. About Board Advisory Services, Inc. BAS has a long record of helping executives improve their decision-making processes, gain a better understanding of the risks inherent in their businesses, and embed a better appreciation of risk throughout their organizations. Clients have leveraged BAS expertise—drawn from decades of experience in business management and professional consulting—to gain insight into their businesses, turn that insight into action, and implement remedies to complex business challenges. BAS has a stellar reputation for advising clients on issues affecting governance, business planning, executive coaching and compliance programs, and transferring their knowledge to the client. | |
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| About Collective Intelligence | |
| Collective Intelligence has carved out what is virtually a new discipline, reinventing the traditional communications function to support not just how ideas are shared but how they become revenue—what CI has named “the sociology of innovation”. This is a crucial element in assuring a permanent shift in outlook among Lodestar’s clients. Since 1996 CI has worked in broad support of strategic communications and change-management efforts for such clients as McKinsey & Co., Booz & Co., The Futures Strategy Group, Korn-Ferry International, United Way of America and the US Department of State. Lessons from this client work were spotlighted at MIT’s “Groupware & Electronic Communities” and the 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture & Change in Organisations at Cambridge University. | |
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| About the Futures Strategy Group | |
| The Futures Strategy Group LLC is responsible for many of the critical innovations in scenario planning over the last two decades. Scenario-based strategic planning, the capstone of FSG’s offerings, is a central element of Lodestar’s Resilient Governance process. It is a powerful method of managing future ambiguities, and of developing and executing strategy in the face of market change and disruption. FSG helps its private and public clients develop and execute durable strategies to navigate through disruptive events and uncertainty. Past and present clients include IBM, Pfizer, Deloitte and the US Coast Guard. | |
