Scenario-planning – David M Law

Encounters with Madiba

August 3, 2018

As South Africa and the world marks the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, I am reposting a piece I wrote on the occasion of his death in 2013.

Global Futures and their Underlying Drivers

March 22, 2018

For my take on the emerging global futures and the drivers shaping them, read this input into a discussion on the TopLink platform of the World Economic Forum, originally posted in March 2018 on my site and in a slightly revised version on that of the WEF on June of this year.

The Gathering Storm

January 23, 2017

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With Donald Trump now sworn in as the American President and Commander–in-Chief, here are some thoughts on where the world may be headed.

Scenarios for the World’s Strategic Futures

January 8, 2014

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Scenario-planning is a methodology that can help us think about the different ways the present can became future. This blog looks at four of the world’s possible strategic futures from the perspective of early 2014.

Encounters with Madiba

December 12, 2013

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I never met Nelson Mandela but our paths crossed, remotely, on three occasions. Here is my salute to one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.