John (Jack) Rodman
Global Forward Planning
What Drives SFR
Purpose
Risks and Opportunities
Approach
Strategy Futures Reimagined is a bespoke consultancy that leverages a world view based on years of national and international policy, risk, and strategy experience to imagine new paths to a better future for you, your organization, or your country.
Approach
Risks and Opportunities
Approach
Nations are more intertwined than ever, with physical and virtual worlds drawing disparate actors into collaboration, confrontation, and competition for business, information, and security. My approach is to use existing and bespoke methodologies to assess future environments, their key drivers or enablers, and work with you to create solutions and plans for the best possible future.
Risks and Opportunities
Risks and Opportunities
Risks and Opportunities
Strategic planning in a world that is increasingly complex, hyper-connected, and turbulent is essential. Managing risk in this challenging landscape requires looking for obstacles and options, trends and outliers. Reimagining a strategy requires identifying and understanding disruptions and their impacts on the future you had envisioned so that you can navigate them with agility and success.
My Background
Risks and Opportunities
Risks and Opportunities
After decades of military, national, and international strategic planning, I am focusing on issues important to me and our collective future. As a civilian and military intelligence officer, I specialized in isolating challenges, drivers, and risks. I used advanced methodologies, scenarios, and creative exercises to test future paths and design national strategies and implementation plans.
Strategy Futures Reimagined Services
Developing Strategies
Developing Strategies
Developing Strategies
SFR specializes in nation state and international strategy development. Helping you understand what the future holds and finding success with consultation, facilitation, and creation of strategy documents to guide your implementation efforts. We work with you to identify risks and formulate contingency plans.
Creating Alternatives
Developing Strategies
Developing Strategies
Building options in planning is essential to success. Standard and custom techniques may be required to understand and help you solve your challenges. Agility in national and international strategic planning requires mapping future risks and opportunities for you. It also means realistically assessing limits.
Exercising Foresight
Developing Strategies
Exercising Foresight
SFR uses a variety of foresight, planning, and strategy techniques to help you determine the most important enablers and inhibitors for accomplishing your goals. We seek the answers with you, help you build a repeatable process, and incorporate thinking about the future into institutional fabric.
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Explore Methodologies
Explore Methodologies
Explore published and unpublished articles, assessments, and papers on a range of issues important for national and international planning against future risks to prosperity and stability.
Explore Methodologies
Explore Methodologies
Explore Methodologies
Dive into standard and bespoke frameworks, methodologies, and models to help you identify key factors and decision points that will determine solutions and success as you undertake planning and strategy efforts.
Engage With Us
Explore Methodologies
Into the Unknown
Reach out to discuss the challenge you are facing and work with us to come up with the best approach to defining key issues and determining solutions.
Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown
At SFR, the past is an important guide to the future. Ancient mariners did not know what lay beyond their world but ventured out. This is a space where perhaps unknown, seemingly disconnected items of interest may be explored in a graphic or visual.
Find Events and Notices
Find Events and Notices
A periodic updating of events related to futures work, strategy building, and planning for implementation. Under Construction.
Featured Content
GOVERNING ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE IN A NATION
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a transformative technology requiring novel, nation-state efforts to manage its effects on individual societies and global interactions. Unlike major industrial and technological changes in the past, adaptation to its potential for societal disruption may only have months, not years or decades. Planning for this technology is imperative to reduce profound economic and societal disruption. This is a paper for generalists interested or concerned about the future impact of AGI and planners of AGI governance for their nation. The issues and challenges of managing AGI’s progress and integration are many and complex. Any approach needs to be structured and digestible so conversations can be held at all levels regarding AGI development and the role that it should have in the future. This paper does not presume these discussions are not currently happening but rather hopes that this approach furthers the discussion on standard approaches to governance that are transparent to the public, national planners, and technologists.
When AGI becomes part of our daily lives it will reach into the home, occupations, and societal fabric – forever changing safety, security, and stability. More than a tool for research, AGI may change how we engage with each other personally, locally, nationally, and internationally. This paper brings together disparate themes like digital feudalism, the danger of technology disruption, and the loss of human comparative advantage to illustrate the enormity of the issue and the need for comprehensive planning at the nation-state level in support of international rules.
AGI will be a major inflection point for humanity that will require an informed and involved public to safely leverage its potential. Its development and how a nation state integrates AGI will affect the lives and livelihoods of its populace significantly. AGI is more than a tool. It challenges individual and collective futures. This guide is for nations developing governance and prioritizing efforts related to AGI but also is a way for the public to gain sufficient understanding of the hurdles so that they may follow progress and engage with their respective decision-makers on the issue.
This paper will explain why this technology is different than what humankind has adapted to before, what the key issues are that representational governments need to resolve, and possible approaches to creating appropriate governance of AI and AGI for a nation. It includes some examples from the author’s home country but is meant to be generally applicable to any nation or international organization. This framework represents the author’s opinion but hopefully will resonate and spur engagement at all levels on how to make the most of this technology. Read the entire paper in the Content Section.
