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John (Jack) Rodman


Strategy Futures Reimagined

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What Drives SFR

Purpose

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Find Events and Notices

A periodic updating of events related to futures work, strategy building, and planning for implementation.  Under Construction.

Featured Content

Minimizing Discontinuity and Volatility in National Security Strategies

Over the last four decades, U.S. National Security Strategies (NSS) have oscillated with each administration between being engaged and being cautious and protective, creating structural discontinuity in policy that undermines our long‑term development, alliance cohesion, industrial resilience, and national competitiveness.  Resetting U.S. critical needs with each administration diminishes capacity, resilience, and sustainability, while reinforcing societal fragilities that may already exist. Some recurring issues may always have wide swings, but there are government actions that can create “shadow effect zones”—statutory requirements, appropriations, alliances, and industrial integration—to provide stabilizing continuity. Strengthening these efforts while reducing political volatility in fragile domains (economic messaging, climate policy, social investment) is essential strategic coherence in our planning and policy efforts. 


This report argues for a whole‑of‑nation, multi‑decadal planning model that minimizes discontinuity and volatility across national security strategies. It enables progress by:


· Investing in human and social capacity building with a goal of igniting a new civil potential based on diverse and innovative contributions across classes.

· Implementing long‑term economic goals that address economic, environmental, and security risks, while expanding the middle-class potential in America.

· Integrating visionary and scaled defense modernization against nontraditional threats first, minimizing strategic deterrence platforms to essential needs. 

· Reforming the U.S. industrial capacity based on the continual assessment of national and international supply chains and the risk to our critical systems.


Without multi-Administration planning and policy continuity in key issues, the U.S. cannot sustain long‑term competitiveness in an era of rapid technological change and great‑power rivalry. We will bounce from challenge to challenge with inconsistency rather than anticipating and shaping outcomes to our advantage.  


Please got the Articles and Papers tab for the full report and the Explore Methodologies page for a slide deck.


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