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10 TRENDS IN STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
    FOR DEFENCE AND SECURITY
              STEPHAN DE SPIEGELEIRE
              HCSS SENIOR SCIENTIST
           STOCKHOLM, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
Strategy is about „the big picture‟




                   ?   ??
„Armed Force‟ as a Reflection of the Age
                  Nomadic
              (Hunter/gatherer)    Agrarian society Industrial society


     Age


     „Arms‟    Bare Hands+              Cold                 Hot
     Energy       Human              Mechanical           Thermal
     Unit          Clan           Settlement  City     Nation-State
                         Post-industrial society:
                     Information and knowledge age



     Age

     Arms                                 ?
     Energy                               ?
     Unit        ? [..., networks, cities, societies, individuals,…]
STRONG in the 21st Century:
  STRategic Orientation and Navigation Guidance

      Strategic Orientation                                          Strategic Navigation

                                                                        1        Performance
                                                                                  indicators
                         External                                                 (design/collect)

                         Analysis     Strategic portfolio
                                                analysis                         2
             Strategic
Foresight   boundary                                                 Strategic        Act                    CD&E
                                                                     direction
            conditions                 Capa-      Eco-
                                                            Policy
                                       bility    system
                                                           options
                                      options    options
                         Internal
                         Analysis
                                                                                     Decide



                                                                                                          1 – Strategic learning
                            Strategic Risk Assessment
                                                                                                     2 – Strategic feedback loop


                            Value for Money Analysis
Trend 1 – (A bit) more „serious‟ strategic analysis
  … but differentially so
      Strategic Orientation                                          Strategic Navigation

                                                                        1        Performance
                                                                                  indicators
                         External                                                 (design/collect)

                         Analysis     Strategic portfolio
                                                analysis                         2
             Strategic
Foresight   boundary                                                 Strategic        Act                    CD&E
                                                                     direction
            conditions                 Capa-      Eco-
                                                            Policy
                                       bility    system
                                                           options
                                      options    options
                         Internal
                         Analysis
                                                                                     Decide



                                                                                                          1 – Strategic learning
                            Strategic Risk Assessment
                                                                                                     2 – Strategic feedback loop


                            Value for Money Analysis
Trend 1 – (A bit) more „serious‟ strategic analysis
                                    Personal and notional drawings!

                      Strategic                           Strategic
    Strategic




   Operational       Operational




    Tactical           Tactical


       US               Europe                     Europe
                      (Best case)               (Typical case)
Foresight and Defence Planning
A Short History
                                                                                     I
                                                                                     n
   Fore-            Point        Parameterized      Foresight                        s
                                                 Risk/Uncertainty   Meta-Foresight
  casting         Scenarios        scenarios                                         i
                                                                                     g
                                                                                     h
                                                                                     t


 Teleological   Multi-scenario      Robust            „FAR‟             First
                  planning
  Planning        (1-on-1)         planning         planning         principles



   from “plan and pray” to “sense and respond”
FORESIGHT FOR DEFENCE:
10 TRENDS
10 trends
 1.   Foresight for defense (still?) going strong
 2.   More balance between time horizons
 3.   Towards whole-of-government/society
 4.   Diversification of types of foresight
 5.   Diversification of foresight tools/methods
 6.   From foresight 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0
 7.   Towards better actioning of foresight
 8.   More balance between outside-in/inside-out
 9.   Towards new foresight products
Trend 1 – Interest in foresight (still?) growing
Trend 2 – Better Balance between Planning Horizons:
Away from Presentism?
                                Personal and notional estimates !!!
P     High
 L
 A
 N
 N
 I
 N
     Medium
 G
                                                   Defence Planning-
 E
 F
                                                   Horizons:
 F                                                 • current
 O
      Low                                          • medium-term
 R                                                 • long-term
 T            60s   70s   80s   90s    00s   10s
                           YEAR
Trend 3 – Towards whole-of-government (slowly)
                                                       Integrated
                                                         security
                      Whole-of-
                                                        foresight
                       Society
  Internal security




                       Whole-of-
                      Government




                      Stovepiped      Whole-of-         Whole-of-
                                     Government          Society
                                   External security
Planning for National Security –
      The Dutch Model (2007)
                         Foresight                        Risk assessment                         Capabilities planning

Process         1. Government-wide analysis                                                        2. Strategic planning                  3. Follow-up

                                                                                                                                              Policy
             A. Strategic              B. Horizon-                                                         Required         Current
              foresight                 scanning                                                           capabilies     capabiliities
                                                          C. National                        Planning
                                                                               Risk
                                                             risk-                           assumpt
                                                                           prioritization                                                    Measures
                                                          assessment                           ions


                         B. Thematic in-depth
                               foresight                                                                        Capabilities gap
                                                                                                                                            Legislation



              Report           Report           Report            National                         -
                                                                                            Work
Product      strategic       themes and         Threat            Risk                      programme
                                                                                                                  Capability
             foresight        scenarios         picture           Assessment                                      requirements
                                                                                            tasks and
              Cabinet                                               Cabinet                 capabilities        Cabinet decides
Decision-   decides on                                               selects                                     on capabilities
            themes for                                            priorities on                                       to be
making       thematic                                               basis of                                      strengthened
             in-depth                                             national risk                                 through normal
             analyses                                             assessment                                     budget system
Government-Wide National Risk Assessment
Methodology
Government-Wide National Risk
Assessment- – Assessing likelihood
                                         Hazards
     Class   Quantitative (%)             Qualitative description of danger
     A       < 0,05                       Highly improbable
     B       0.05 – 0.5                   Improbable
     C       0.5 – 5                      Possible
     D       5 – 50                       Probable
     E       50 – 100                     Highly probable
                                   Dangers
 Class       Qualitative description of danger

 A           No concrete indication, and event is thought to be inconceivable
 B           No concrete indication, but event is conceivable
 C           No concrete indication, but event is conceivable
 D           Event is thought to be quite probable
 E           Concrete indication event will occur
Impact assessment


 Territorial   Human         Ecological Pol-Soc stability

                       Economic
Government-Wide National Risk
Assessment – Assessing Impact
Government-Wide National Risk
Assessment – 2008 Risk diagram
Trend 4 – Diversification of types of foresight
                                                          Strategic security                After Paul Davis
                                                              planning

                                                                               (Deep(ening?))
                                           Risk
                                                                               Uncertainty
planning
Type of




                         Operational    Contingency
                          planning       planning
                                                           Risk planning      Uncertainty planning
  Planning Foresight




                                                          Broader foresight
                       No-surprises
                          future
                                        Point-scenarios
                                                              toolbox          ‘The Black Swan’
  Pinciple




                         Optimization    Robustness         FRANKness           First principles
Trend 5 - Diversification of foresight methods
HCSS „flares‟: 8 different angles …
                                   …along (at least) three dimensions
                        Level of Abstraction

                      High
                  Very abstract




                      Low
                  Very concrete        Long         Short
                                                            Timehorizon
                                Quantitative




                  Qualitative

           Research method
„Events‟ in scenario framework
Online expertforum


              • What do you see as the major
                risks to national and international
                stability and security in the
    Risks       coming 5-15 years?



            • International
            • National
  Relevance • Criteria



             • Driving forces
             • Actors
 Elaboration • Regions
TRADITIONAL ARMS RACE - CONCEPTUAL VIEW
                                              Sensitivity of opposing
                                                arms production B
                        Bias in estimating                                 Time to perceive
                        opposing arms B                                  arms opposing arms B

                                                      +          +
                                                 + Estimated -
                                                 opposing arms A
                                                                 +

                         +
                                                                                         Arms B
                 Desired arms A
                                                                                                 +
                                  -



        +                                                            +
                                                                            +
New arms under                          Estimated                  Estimated                          New arms under
development A                         domestic arms A            domestic arms B                      development B
                                        +                                                                +
                                              +




                    +                                                                -

                      Arms A                                                         Desired arms B
                                                                                             +


                                                  Estimated
                                               opposing arms B
                                                 -
                                             +          +
                   Time to perceive arms                                Bias in estimating
                     opposing arms A                                    opposing arms A

                                             Sensitivity of opposing
                                               arms production A
Trend 6 – Towards Foresight 3.0

   Foresight 1.0         Foresight 2.0               Foresight 3.0




                        Connecting people /
     Prima Donna   Networks of (remarkable) people   Connecting visions
Meta-fore – Etymology and Meaning
                                          Meta- fore
                       Μετα-φορά                                Fore-sight
         A
                       (metaphora)
         n   G
         c   r
         i   e                                           fore                sight
         e   e    μεταφέρω (metapherō)
         n   k       “„I transfer, apply‟”                   ME, probably
         t                                                    translation of
                                                            Latin „providentia‟
          μετά (meta),               φέρω (pherō),
        “above, beyond‟”             “„I bear, carry‟”



     Meta-analysis of existing foresight exercises
     Without pre-conceived (ideological, methodological, cultural,…)
      notions
     (Attempt to) carry the field of foresight beyond its current status
Metafore C6+2 protocol
                            “Command and
                               Control‟


Conceptualize



                Collect



                          Code



                                     Cogitate


                                                Commit to
                                                 paper


                                                            Communicate
Collection - Method
     Sources             Search algoritm



                                       „Future‟
                      „Conflict‟



                                   „Serious‟




                           Sources                29
4. Processing - manual
Future contours of conflict
The sources - breakdowns




                Total: 265 sources
Global parameters - Overview




                              1                            2                                  3                                  4                          5
Actors            Blocs of States          Pairs of States                   State and non-state vs. non-state   State vs. non-state           Non-state vs. non-state      Actors
Aim               Physical degradation     Obtain/retain/occupy              Political/economic degradation      Stabilize                     Survive                      Aim
Definition        War                      Militarized interstate disputes   Tensions between non-state actors   Political/economic tensions   Between individuals          Definition
Distinctiveness   Low                      Leans low                         Medium                              Leans high                    High                         Distinctiveness
Domain            Traditional Dimensions   Modern military dimensions        Political                           Economic                      Human Terrain                Domain
Extensiveness     Global                   Regional                          Sub-regional                        National                      Domestic                     Extensiveness
Impetus           Data                     Interest                          Value                               Relationship                  Structural                   Impetus
Length            Years                    Months                            Days                                Hours                         Minutes                      Length
Means             Physical                 Political                         Economic                            Electronic/Cyber              Information/ Psychological   Means
Pace              Low                      Leans low                         Medium                              Leans high                    High                         Pace
Salience          Low                      Leans low                         Medium                              Leans high                    High                         Salience
                                                                                                                                                                                   36
                              1                            2                                  3                                  4                          5
Parameters – Values across Languages




                              1                            2                                  3                                  4                          5
Actors            Blocs of States          Pairs of States                   State and non-state vs. non-state   State vs. non-state           Non-state vs. non-state      Actors
Aim               Physical degradation     Obtain/retain/occupy              Political/economic degradation      Stabilize                     Survive                      Aim
Definition        War                      Militarized interstate disputes   Tensions between non-state actors   Political/economic tensions   Between individuals          Definition
Distinctiveness   Low                      Leans low                         Medium                              Leans high                    High                         Distinctiveness
Domain            Traditional Dimensions   Modern military dimensions        Political                           Economic                      Human Terrain                Domain
Extensiveness     Global                   Regional                          Sub-regional                        National                      Domestic                     Extensiveness
Impetus           Data                     Interest                          Value                               Relationship                  Structural                   Impetus
Length            Years                    Months                            Days                                Hours                         Minutes                      Length
Means             Physical                 Political                         Economic                            Electronic/Cyber              Information/ Psychological   Means
Pace              Low                      Leans low                         Medium                              Leans high                    High                         Pace
Salience          Low                      Leans low                         Medium                              Leans high                    High                         Salience
                              1                            2                                  3                                  4                          5
Drivers – Rank across Languages
5. Vizualization – manual (Papermachines)




              International Organizations
5. Vizualization – automatic
(Leximancer)              Academic literature
5. Vizualization – automatic
(Leximancer)               Academic literature
Trend 7 – More focus on non-‟known knowns‟ (1/2)



              Unknowns


    Knowns                 Knowns          Unknowns



  „Lesser and included‟       A few point scenarios
  „Wise Prediction‟/        (Point-)Scenario-planning/
    Big gambler                Scenario-gambling
Trend 7 – More focus on non-‟known knowns‟ (2/2)
Trend 8 – „Anchoring‟ foresight




               “it is all too easy to overestimate the effects of
               these exercises, particularly when you consider
               the rhetoric surrounding some of them. Closer
               examination shows that their impact on research
               and innovation systems is typically rather
               marginal, and they tend to lead to incremental,
               evolutionary changes, often at the edges.”
               Mapping Foresight. Revealing how Europe and other world regions navigate
               into the future. EFMN, November 2009
Trend 9 – more „inside-out‟ foresight
                         The butterfly-model
            general
              to-
                                      semadyson
            security



          Outside-in                  integratie
                                                   Inside-out
            security -
               to-
          themes/caps
Outside-in / General to security
Trend 9 – More „inside-out‟ foresight


                     vision



  outside-in                                  inside-out
     future
                  future me’s   what are we (/do we want to be) good at?
environments =>
  capabilities



                  integration
Trend 9 – More „inside-out‟ foresight

                                    vision




  outside-in                                                     inside-out

     future                      future me’s                    what are / do
environments =>                                                 we want to be
  capabilities                                                    good at?




                                    integration
                  (future) capability requirements - DOTMLPFI
Trend 10 – Towards new foresight products
Traditional STRONG


      Orientation                            Navigation


                            ‘Leader’




        „Strategic monitor‟ = image(s) in the leaders‟s head
Industrial STRONG


      Orientation                          Navigation
                       Commandant +
                          Staffs




                          CEO +
                      Executive Board


         „Strategic monitor‟ = regular planning document
Post-Industrial STRONG?
                                             But we need a lubricant!!!


     Orientation                           Navigation




       Strategic monitor = diverse „open‟ future-base
Orientation under complexity
Designing an Options Portfolio under Complexity
STRONG under Complexity

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10 Trends in Strategic Foresight for Defense and Security

  • 1. 10 TRENDS IN STRATEGIC FORESIGHT FOR DEFENCE AND SECURITY STEPHAN DE SPIEGELEIRE HCSS SENIOR SCIENTIST STOCKHOLM, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
  • 2. Strategy is about „the big picture‟ ? ??
  • 3. „Armed Force‟ as a Reflection of the Age Nomadic (Hunter/gatherer) Agrarian society Industrial society Age „Arms‟ Bare Hands+ Cold Hot Energy Human Mechanical Thermal Unit Clan Settlement  City Nation-State Post-industrial society: Information and knowledge age Age Arms ? Energy ? Unit ? [..., networks, cities, societies, individuals,…]
  • 4. STRONG in the 21st Century: STRategic Orientation and Navigation Guidance Strategic Orientation Strategic Navigation 1 Performance indicators External (design/collect) Analysis Strategic portfolio analysis 2 Strategic Foresight boundary Strategic Act CD&E direction conditions Capa- Eco- Policy bility system options options options Internal Analysis Decide 1 – Strategic learning Strategic Risk Assessment 2 – Strategic feedback loop Value for Money Analysis
  • 5. Trend 1 – (A bit) more „serious‟ strategic analysis … but differentially so Strategic Orientation Strategic Navigation 1 Performance indicators External (design/collect) Analysis Strategic portfolio analysis 2 Strategic Foresight boundary Strategic Act CD&E direction conditions Capa- Eco- Policy bility system options options options Internal Analysis Decide 1 – Strategic learning Strategic Risk Assessment 2 – Strategic feedback loop Value for Money Analysis
  • 6. Trend 1 – (A bit) more „serious‟ strategic analysis Personal and notional drawings! Strategic Strategic Strategic Operational Operational Tactical Tactical US Europe Europe (Best case) (Typical case)
  • 7. Foresight and Defence Planning A Short History I n Fore- Point Parameterized Foresight s Risk/Uncertainty Meta-Foresight casting Scenarios scenarios i g h t Teleological Multi-scenario Robust „FAR‟ First planning Planning (1-on-1) planning planning principles  from “plan and pray” to “sense and respond”
  • 9. 10 trends 1. Foresight for defense (still?) going strong 2. More balance between time horizons 3. Towards whole-of-government/society 4. Diversification of types of foresight 5. Diversification of foresight tools/methods 6. From foresight 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0 7. Towards better actioning of foresight 8. More balance between outside-in/inside-out 9. Towards new foresight products
  • 10. Trend 1 – Interest in foresight (still?) growing
  • 11. Trend 2 – Better Balance between Planning Horizons: Away from Presentism? Personal and notional estimates !!! P High L A N N I N Medium G Defence Planning- E F Horizons: F • current O Low • medium-term R • long-term T 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s 10s YEAR
  • 12. Trend 3 – Towards whole-of-government (slowly) Integrated security Whole-of- foresight Society Internal security Whole-of- Government Stovepiped Whole-of- Whole-of- Government Society External security
  • 13. Planning for National Security – The Dutch Model (2007) Foresight Risk assessment Capabilities planning Process 1. Government-wide analysis 2. Strategic planning 3. Follow-up Policy A. Strategic B. Horizon- Required Current foresight scanning capabilies capabiliities C. National Planning Risk risk- assumpt prioritization Measures assessment ions B. Thematic in-depth foresight Capabilities gap Legislation Report Report Report National - Work Product strategic themes and Threat Risk programme Capability foresight scenarios picture Assessment requirements tasks and Cabinet Cabinet capabilities Cabinet decides Decision- decides on selects on capabilities themes for priorities on to be making thematic basis of strengthened in-depth national risk through normal analyses assessment budget system
  • 14. Government-Wide National Risk Assessment Methodology
  • 15. Government-Wide National Risk Assessment- – Assessing likelihood Hazards Class Quantitative (%) Qualitative description of danger A < 0,05 Highly improbable B 0.05 – 0.5 Improbable C 0.5 – 5 Possible D 5 – 50 Probable E 50 – 100 Highly probable Dangers Class Qualitative description of danger A No concrete indication, and event is thought to be inconceivable B No concrete indication, but event is conceivable C No concrete indication, but event is conceivable D Event is thought to be quite probable E Concrete indication event will occur
  • 16. Impact assessment Territorial Human Ecological Pol-Soc stability Economic
  • 19. Trend 4 – Diversification of types of foresight Strategic security After Paul Davis planning (Deep(ening?)) Risk Uncertainty planning Type of Operational Contingency planning planning Risk planning Uncertainty planning Planning Foresight Broader foresight No-surprises future Point-scenarios toolbox ‘The Black Swan’ Pinciple Optimization Robustness FRANKness First principles
  • 20. Trend 5 - Diversification of foresight methods
  • 21. HCSS „flares‟: 8 different angles … …along (at least) three dimensions Level of Abstraction High Very abstract Low Very concrete Long Short Timehorizon Quantitative Qualitative Research method
  • 23. Online expertforum • What do you see as the major risks to national and international stability and security in the Risks coming 5-15 years? • International • National Relevance • Criteria • Driving forces • Actors Elaboration • Regions
  • 24.
  • 25. TRADITIONAL ARMS RACE - CONCEPTUAL VIEW Sensitivity of opposing arms production B Bias in estimating Time to perceive opposing arms B arms opposing arms B + + + Estimated - opposing arms A + + Arms B Desired arms A + - + + + New arms under Estimated Estimated New arms under development A domestic arms A domestic arms B development B + + + + - Arms A Desired arms B + Estimated opposing arms B - + + Time to perceive arms Bias in estimating opposing arms A opposing arms A Sensitivity of opposing arms production A
  • 26. Trend 6 – Towards Foresight 3.0 Foresight 1.0 Foresight 2.0 Foresight 3.0 Connecting people / Prima Donna Networks of (remarkable) people Connecting visions
  • 27. Meta-fore – Etymology and Meaning Meta- fore Μετα-φορά Fore-sight A (metaphora) n G c r i e fore sight e e μεταφέρω (metapherō) n k “„I transfer, apply‟” ME, probably t translation of Latin „providentia‟ μετά (meta), φέρω (pherō), “above, beyond‟” “„I bear, carry‟”  Meta-analysis of existing foresight exercises  Without pre-conceived (ideological, methodological, cultural,…) notions  (Attempt to) carry the field of foresight beyond its current status
  • 28. Metafore C6+2 protocol “Command and Control‟ Conceptualize Collect Code Cogitate Commit to paper Communicate
  • 29. Collection - Method Sources Search algoritm „Future‟ „Conflict‟ „Serious‟ Sources 29
  • 30. 4. Processing - manual
  • 31. Future contours of conflict The sources - breakdowns Total: 265 sources
  • 32. Global parameters - Overview 1 2 3 4 5 Actors Blocs of States Pairs of States State and non-state vs. non-state State vs. non-state Non-state vs. non-state Actors Aim Physical degradation Obtain/retain/occupy Political/economic degradation Stabilize Survive Aim Definition War Militarized interstate disputes Tensions between non-state actors Political/economic tensions Between individuals Definition Distinctiveness Low Leans low Medium Leans high High Distinctiveness Domain Traditional Dimensions Modern military dimensions Political Economic Human Terrain Domain Extensiveness Global Regional Sub-regional National Domestic Extensiveness Impetus Data Interest Value Relationship Structural Impetus Length Years Months Days Hours Minutes Length Means Physical Political Economic Electronic/Cyber Information/ Psychological Means Pace Low Leans low Medium Leans high High Pace Salience Low Leans low Medium Leans high High Salience 36 1 2 3 4 5
  • 33. Parameters – Values across Languages 1 2 3 4 5 Actors Blocs of States Pairs of States State and non-state vs. non-state State vs. non-state Non-state vs. non-state Actors Aim Physical degradation Obtain/retain/occupy Political/economic degradation Stabilize Survive Aim Definition War Militarized interstate disputes Tensions between non-state actors Political/economic tensions Between individuals Definition Distinctiveness Low Leans low Medium Leans high High Distinctiveness Domain Traditional Dimensions Modern military dimensions Political Economic Human Terrain Domain Extensiveness Global Regional Sub-regional National Domestic Extensiveness Impetus Data Interest Value Relationship Structural Impetus Length Years Months Days Hours Minutes Length Means Physical Political Economic Electronic/Cyber Information/ Psychological Means Pace Low Leans low Medium Leans high High Pace Salience Low Leans low Medium Leans high High Salience 1 2 3 4 5
  • 34. Drivers – Rank across Languages
  • 35. 5. Vizualization – manual (Papermachines) International Organizations
  • 36. 5. Vizualization – automatic (Leximancer) Academic literature
  • 37. 5. Vizualization – automatic (Leximancer) Academic literature
  • 38. Trend 7 – More focus on non-‟known knowns‟ (1/2) Unknowns Knowns Knowns Unknowns „Lesser and included‟ A few point scenarios „Wise Prediction‟/ (Point-)Scenario-planning/ Big gambler Scenario-gambling
  • 39. Trend 7 – More focus on non-‟known knowns‟ (2/2)
  • 40. Trend 8 – „Anchoring‟ foresight “it is all too easy to overestimate the effects of these exercises, particularly when you consider the rhetoric surrounding some of them. Closer examination shows that their impact on research and innovation systems is typically rather marginal, and they tend to lead to incremental, evolutionary changes, often at the edges.” Mapping Foresight. Revealing how Europe and other world regions navigate into the future. EFMN, November 2009
  • 41. Trend 9 – more „inside-out‟ foresight The butterfly-model general to- semadyson security Outside-in integratie Inside-out security - to- themes/caps
  • 42. Outside-in / General to security
  • 43. Trend 9 – More „inside-out‟ foresight vision outside-in inside-out future future me’s what are we (/do we want to be) good at? environments => capabilities integration
  • 44. Trend 9 – More „inside-out‟ foresight vision outside-in inside-out future future me’s what are / do environments => we want to be capabilities good at? integration (future) capability requirements - DOTMLPFI
  • 45. Trend 10 – Towards new foresight products
  • 46. Traditional STRONG Orientation Navigation ‘Leader’ „Strategic monitor‟ = image(s) in the leaders‟s head
  • 47. Industrial STRONG Orientation Navigation Commandant + Staffs CEO + Executive Board „Strategic monitor‟ = regular planning document
  • 48. Post-Industrial STRONG? But we need a lubricant!!! Orientation Navigation Strategic monitor = diverse „open‟ future-base
  • 50. Designing an Options Portfolio under Complexity

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Ask the question
  2. Portfolio – portfolio of capabilities and policies
  3. Portfolio – portfolio of capabilities and policies
  4. One of the big (underappreciated) stovepipes in our defence planning systems is the timehorizon-stovepipe (current (operational) planning vs. Medium-term planning vs. Long-term planning). During the Cold War and in its immediate aftermath, most capabilities planning went into medium-term planning (since no real operations were taking place). As OPTEMPO started picking up in the post-Cold War period, most planning resources were invested in current (operational) planning, mostly at the expense of both other planning horizons. Recent shocks (financial crisis) may trigger renewed interest in longer-term planning. We want to emphasize here that the main advantages of long-term planning (and the principal reason to take it more seriously than we do today) is that it allows one to relax some of the main assumptions that are generally accepted at any given moment in time and to think more ‘out of the box’ (also in terms of solutions).
  5. Australia, France, UK
  6. The items that the cabinet takes out of the (meta-)foresight are then subjected to a government-wide analytical exercise we call the National Risk Assessment. This exercise yields a matrix that indicates the rlativel likelihood and impact of those items for Dutch national security.
  7. This was the 2008 National Risk Assessment matrix that was presented to the Cabinet in May 2008 and then forwarded to Parliament and made public.
  8. Uitwerking van indicatoren die inzichtgeven of een ‘event’ zichvoortzet in een ‘trend’Hoe bepaal je in welke richting de wereld zich in het scenarioframework beweegt?Waarde zit in over enkelejarenditherhalen and kijken hoe de blod
  9. (Meta-) analysisBandwidth (general distribution of findings)‘Robust’ findings (where there seems to be more consensus)(Interesting) weak findings – closer look at some (interesting) outliers (plausible, internally coherent foresight views that for some reason are (currently a minority view)‘Holes’ – are there any views ‘missing’ (e.g. findings from other foresight work we’ve done (cite!!!), own thinking, etc.) ‘Trends’ – analyze the findings across times: are there any views that seem to be receding or ascending? [This may also include other things such as patterns (are certain views more typical for certain types of sources (e.g. think tanks vs. government); for certain regions (certain views more dominant in certain regions), etc.)‘So what’ – what does all of this mean? How do we interpret this? What does the meta-analysis mean? (what do we ‘know’/’not know’)What does it mean for strategic planning? (‘translation’)
  10. Traditional (pre-industrial) model: autocratic/‘heroic’ leadership – the strategic ‘leader’ (‘prince’, ‘commander’, ‘leader of a firm’) collects (and hoards) all the key information, plots a course and ‘steers’ his organization in that direction
  11. Industrial-model: ‘leader’ surrounds himself with staffs with some division of labor (and specialization). Increasingly ‘staffs’ also become co-responsible for orientation (certainly WITHIN their own stovepipes) AND navigation (still mostly just execution with SOME leeway – supported/supporting commander/mission command)[add zig-zags]
  12. Post-industrial model: two big changes:Nature of organization changes: more network-centric  ecosystem-like (don’t be a star, be a galaxy)Nature of ‘Strong’ changes: no longer need/smart to condense/converge orientation to a single point (-prediction) and then to plot a ‘single’ course and steer (‘command and control’) the organization in that directionBetter/smarter to contemplate multiple futures (multi-perspective AND through the network/ecosystem), NOT condense/converge, NOT plot a single course but instead instill FRRANKness, develop and pursue a ‘bushy strategic tree) (ALSO through the network/ecosystem), and ‘sense (as a network/ecosystem) and respond (as a network/ecosystem)’