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• Our offer• Who we are • Strategy cycle• What we do• Our expertise• Beyond Crisis• Current clients

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Published in 2013

• Our offer– To enhance the capability to anticipate – To transform emergent thinking into strategy and

implementation– Consulting, backed up by executive education and research

to deliver “robust decisions in uncertain times”

• “You can never plan the future by the the past”– Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

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• Formed in 1989– Until 1999 based at St Andrews University– Now virtual, owned by staff– Celebrated our 20th anniversary at the Royal Society– Over 200 projects delivered in 21 countries– Will celebrate our 25th virtually and over a year

• People:– 11 Fellows, Director level experience in major organisations, public and private

sectors: consult, teach & write on business, policy, strategy and futures, leadership

– 8 Principals, Senior experience in major organisations, public and private sectors: experts in aspects of futures, strategic planning and organisational development

– Also 56 Associates with specialist expertise e.g. – Sectors: oil & gas, ICT, FS, construction, government, health, NGOs,

renewables, infrastructure, transport– Functional specialists: risk, innovation, creative spaces, audio-visual

communication, occupational psychology, reconfiguration -----

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• The hard bit starts here!

• Horizon scanning, interviews, research, leading to drivers of change

• Consultation, , communication, strategy and wind tunnel workshops, detailed planning, stakeholder engagement, Board meetings

• Taking the drivers of change and creating mental models (scenarios) which expose the big questions

Sense Making

Setting Priorities

ImplementStrategic

Intelligence

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Our focus

• We work around the strategy cycle to• bridge between the external world and futurists , and decision makers, to drive

robust decisions and the resulting implementation• cover creativity and innovation, insight and options, through to implementation

and managing stakeholders

• We work• in collegiate mode with senior teams, Boards and Cabinets• in public, private & NGO organisations globally

• We are a network of networks, enabling us to bring global experience to your concerns: our approach harnesses the energy and talents of the organisation

• We offer Executive Education, Training and Research to back up our consultancy

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Specialist areasFutures, visioningHorizon scanningScenarios, Govt Policy development Board reviewsCreativity & InnovationCorporate GovernanceSkills and leadership

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Core SAMI USP Strategy, scenario planning and strategic policy development

PESTLE informed

SectorsInternational DevelopmentUK Central GovernmentNGOs, EC & AgenciesFinancial servicesHealth and social careInfrastructure & ConstructionPharmaceuticals and foodTMTUtilities and energy, renewables

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Integrates SAMI’s philosophy & approach and positions it in today’s uncertain context.

As Rupert Pennant-Rea, formerly editor of The Economist wrote: "In today's stormy waters, beware the guide who promises to take you safely back to port: that way lies the scrap-yard.  If instead you want to know how countries, companies and individuals can master the winds and the waves that will dominate the next decade, this is the book for you."

©2009 Lustig, Ringland, Sparrow

• Academy of Medicine – Board workshop on public health in 2040• ACCA – workshops and report on scenarios for the future of

access to finance• Department for Transport - year long horizon scanning project,

quarterly impact analysis• European Commission – advisory to DG R&I• Grant Thornton – Future Perspectives with UK, client events with

UK, futures provocation with International• HMRC – the context for HMRC to 2030• MirandaNet – taking education research into FS• NFU Mutual – Board level scenarios• Social Housing Think Tank – scenarios to 2030

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