Emerging Risks

The risk landscape for your business is evolving. Geopolitical shifts, technological disruption and climate change are altering the environment and transforming how you and your businesses operate. Society must adapt because resilience is not just about surviving today but being ready for tomorrow.

Organisations must explore a range of future scenarios to test their resilience strategies and consider whether their approach to resilience will suffice in those scenarios. Are new threats emerging? Are changes in your business model and supply chain structures creating new vulnerabilities? Could technological advances or political shifts create new risks?

Scenario planning can help you explore multiple futures as you test your resilience. They’re a hybrid of trend analysis of the social, technological, economic and political factors shaping our world, merged with creative thinking to explore how these forces might interact. These future scenarios can be brought to life by creating “What if…” examples to challenge your assumptions and uncover any blind spots.

Some trends, such as demographics, can be predictable, as can technological developments such as quantum computing, AI and robotics. Geopolitics can shift rapidly and unexpectedly, challenging our assumptions. While corporate strategy looks to position organisations for business success in these variant futures, our focus is on the resilience of the organisations to the disruptive events which may materialise in these future worlds.