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
2040: A Decisive Decade for the United States
The U.S. has stated the need for an integrated strategic deterrence that incorporates all aspects of national power in various strategies but has not created an implementation plan or central authority to ensure deterrence efforts are integrated across the many agencies and departments. A formal, structured, and permanent planning effort that synchronizes actions and assesses progress in the areas of military power, arms control diplomacy, and creating a more informed and resilient society is needed. The foundations for 21st Century deterrence strategy may evolve through a national dialogue, but a starting point is to understand the difference in modern defense and deterrence, evaluate the most effective way to apply arms reduction efforts, and what are truly the layers of national power that we have at our disposal – and how should we protect them. The dialogue should include:
- The effectiveness of the Golden Dome for America system (Return on Investment – ROI), the role of defense in integrated deterrence, and what attacks most likely need deterred.
- Alternative approaches to reducing the risk of missile strikes (Trade Space) that may include enhanced verification and disarmament.
- How to develop a deterrence capability that utilizes all aspects of national power across the entire spectrum of engagement (grey to nuclear).
Find the full document for download or reading under the Articles and Papers tab.
