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The Futures Strategy Group

The Futures Strategy Group LLC (FSG) is a management consulting company dedicated to helping private and government clients develop and execute superior strategies. The capstone of FSG’s offerings is scenario-based strategic planning. Scenario planning is a powerful method of anticipating and strategically preparing for future changes and discontinuities. FSG principals are responsible for many of the critical innovations in scenario planning over the last two decades. More important than this, however, are the testimonies of our clients—that our work conveys enduring value long after final project results have been delivered.

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Who We Are

• Leaders and Innovators in Scenario Planning
• Our Roots & Heritage: From Ted Gordon and The Futures Group to the founding of the Futures Strategy Group
• FSG People
• Charles Perrottet
• Charles Thomas
• Peter Kennedy
• Patrick Marren
• Thomas J. Buckley
• Jack Clarke
• Cathy Johnson
• Kevin McDermott
• Maria Robotham
• Mark Safford

Our Work

• Tools to Manage Uncertainty: Futures Audit, Scenario-Based Strategic Planning, Technology Sequence Analysis, Trend Impact Analysis, Strategy Workshops, and Emerging Markets
• Scenario Planning Up-Close:  Beyond Traditional Strategy and Business Planning to Rigorous Strategy Workshops and Contingent Strategies
• Unique Scenario Approach: Managing Uncertainty with Rigor & Creativity

Clients & Projects

• Who We Have Served (links)
  • Deloitte
  • Land Rover
  • U.S. Air Force
  • Pfizer
  • IBM
  • U.S. Coast Guard
  • Panama Canal Commission
  • NASA
  • The Options Clearing Corporation
  • 3M
  • Jefferson Health System
  • Merrill Lynch
  • PSEG
  • American Airlines
  • Joint Planning and Development Office (NGATS)
• Indicative Project Descriptions: Clients, Projects and Innovative Strategy Consulting
• Private Sector Scenario Planning Projects
  • Alternative Futures to Shape Enduring Business Continuity Solutions
  • Scenario Planning for Pharmaceutical Product and Market Strategy
  • Medical Equipment Manufacturer: Product Development Scenarios
  • Retail Strategy to Offset Internet Competition
  • Resource Planning for an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System
  • Motor Vehicle Industry: Scenario Planning for North America and Global Market Positioning
  • Scenarios to Inform Forecasts of Latin American Motor Vehicle Markets
  • Fleet Financial Group (Bank of America): Strategic Positioning Post-Deregulation
  • Professional Services Firm: Scenario Planning to Consolidate Globalization and Identify Contingencies
  • Financial Services Planning: Building Board Support for Scenario-Based Strategies
  • Agricultural Products: Strategy and Contingency Planning
• Public Sector Projects
  • The U.S. Coast Guard: Project Evergreen
  • Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO)
  • The U.S. Coast Guard: Project Long View
  • The U.S. Coast Guard: Reassessing Long View Post 9/11
  • NASA Aeronautics: R&D Prioritization, New Organizational Challenges and Emerging Forces for Change
  • National Reconnaissance Office: Project Proteus

News & Publications

• FSG News
• January 2010
  • Management implications of recovery scenarios
  • Critiquing McKinsey’s scenario process
  • Revisiting Brazil scenarios
  • Lodestar Collaborative site goes live
  • Reading economic tea leaves for 2010
• October 2009
  • FSG to Lead Coast Guard's Evergreen Project
  • Briefing Irish MBA Students
• August 2009
  • Perrottet Elected to Millennium Project Position
  • Introducing "The Lodestar Collaborative"
  • Panama Canal Looks to the Future
  • FSG Reading Recommendation
• June 2009
  • Recession Strategies - and Recovery Readiness
  • Conversations on Arctic Strategy
  • Robert Avila Brings Scenario Modeling and Forecasting Capabilities to FSG
• April 2009
  • FSG Introduces the Recession/Recovery Decision Matrix^sm
  • R/RDM Application in Financial Services Risk Management
  • Updates on the Arctic Futures Initiative
• January 2009
  • Beyond Strategic Risk Management
  • Arctic Futures Update
  • Scenario Skill-Building at Boeing
  • New Ground with the Coast Guard
• September 2008
  • Back to the Panama Canal
  • Anticipating Strategic Impacts of Change in the Arctic Region
  • Internal auditors Wrestle with Alternative Futures
  • Corporate and NGO Groups Weigh in on Maritime Challenges
• May 2008
  • Project Evergreen II with the U.S. Coast Guard
  • Enterprise Risk Management State-of-the-Art
  • How to Act Strategically in the Current Downturn
  • Making Sense of Scenario Planning's Multiple Flavors
• January 2008
  • Exploring U.S. Political and Economic Futures
  • Managing New Global Risks
  • Rethinking U.S. Foreign Policy Options
  • Forging U.S. Coast Guard Strategies
  • Supporting NASA Research
  • Writing and Training Plans for '08
• November 2007
  • FSG Facilitates the USCG's Project Evergreen
  • Teaching Scenario Planning at the Boeing Leadership Center
  • Thoughts on the Future of Transportation
  • A Futures Perspective on Managing Risk
  • Creating Strategic Alignment at NASA's Langley Research Center
  • FSG at World Futures Society's 2007 Conference
  • Project Horizon in Year Two
  • The Moving Target of Performance Metrics
• December 2004
• June 2005
• November 2006
  • Project Horizon in Year Two
  • FSG welcomes two new partners
    • Patrick Marren
    • Tom Buckley
  • FSG opens Washington, DC office
• Map to FSG, 1250 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
• Charles Perrottet in China
  • FSG Outlook - inaugural edition
• FSG Outlook
  • McKinsey, Scenarios, and Us
  • Chasing Black Swan Tails
  • The Big Mistakes Obama Has Already Made
  • How Scenario Planning Improves Forecasting by Reversing Cause and Effect
  • Crisis Planning in an Eventful Year
  • The End, or the Beginning?
  • Recesson Planning: Turning Fog Lamps on the Current Uncertainty
  • Types of Scenario Planning
  • Begging Indulgences: Bleak News from the Economic Front
  • The Wisdom of Scenario Crowds
  • Coase Encounters
  • Meet the Metrics: The New Math of Measuring Effectiveness
  • On the Road in the Middle Kingdom
    
• FSG Publications
• Resource Articles