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SAMI
Strategy & Management Insights
Robust decisions in uncertain times
Scenario Planning
for long tail high impact events
triggered by
Global Resource Constraints
Gill Ringland
November 2013
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WEF Global Risks 2013
Impact
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Likelihood (next ten years)
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Global Scenarios
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Community based
Many Hands
Long Hand
Virtual connections
Geography matters
Second Hand
Visible Hand
Washington consensus
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Questions
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• Which of the WEF risks is most likely to cause a
break down of the Washington consensus?
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Scarcity driving geopolitical conflict
Cyber attack
Severe income disparity – civil unrest
Complacency – not a WEF risk
Failure of global governance
Climate change
Food scarcity – implications for energy & food
Ocean governance
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Questions: for each scenario
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• How could you innovate to deal with these?
– Security forces expanding into resource management
– Water shortages? Crops?humans? use salt water?
– Self-sustaining mega-communities – disruptive
change in governance – risk of anarchy
– Innovations in food supply chain could reduce
wastage and disparity, c.f. Water
– Energy use as leverage point
• Education, health, reduce waste, etc
– Innovation needs a context of informed
population
– THIS IS A TIME OF
DISRUPTION
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