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October 2009

FSG to lead Coast Guard’s Evergreen Project …

FSG is proud to announce that it has been once again selected by the US Coast Guard to lead its strategic-planning process known as Evergreen. Evergreen is the service’s long-term strategy-development and strategic-renewal process. This will be the Coast Guard’s third continuous Evergreen cycle, the first of which kicked off in 2003. Evergreen in turn was preceded by another scenario-based strategic planning process, known as Project Long View, which ran from 1998 through 1999, under then-Commandant Admiral James Loy; Long View was also facilitated by FSG. The new Evergreen cycle will run through 2012. FSG has been very fortunate to be able to have a role in helping the Coast Guard to institute a continuous cycle of strategy development and strategic renewal that has helped them to anticipate the future with rigor and creativity. This four-year engagement will extend through the bulk of the next commandant’s term. Since Project Long View, more than 2,500 Coast Guard personnel, from senior officers to junior enlisted, and including civilian employees, have been exposed to the Evergreen process. Current FSG principals (then part of The Futures Group, Inc.) were there at the ground floor of this long-term effort; and much of the current leadership of the Coast Guard was there as well. In particular, then-Captain, now Commandant and Admiral Thad Allen has been a participant in every stage of this process, since 1998. We are truly happy and honored once again to have been chosen to support the Coast Guard’s Evergreen work.

Briefing Irish MBA students …

In September, FSG partner Charles Perrottet presented to a group of approximately twenty MBA candidates from Ireland’s Waterford Institute of Technology who were visiting on an educational tour of the U.S. He reviewed various types of scenario planning and the impact they have had on business and government organizations. This was one of a series of sessions that WIT has had with selected leaders in consulting and business.

Scenario Perspectives on the World After 9/11 …

FSG’s Peter Kennedy and Mark Safford have co-authored the lead chapter in a new book titled The Impact of 9/11 on Business and Economics, edited by Matthew J. Morgan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). The chapter distills a range of strategic insights from FSG’s recent scenario-planning work, particularly as they relate to the challenges of security, prosperity and global development over the coming two decades. The chapter appears in the second volume of a six-volume series entitled The Day that Changed Everything?

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