As Beverly Sills once said, “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Mt Robson is the most prominent and highest mountain in the rocky mountain range. The mountain is heavily glaciated with a colossal snow-capped peak. It has an insane failure rate for climbing to the peak...

In this OODAcast, we ask Lance for insights into what planners can learn from major global events from the last few decades and how scenario planning can help organizations prepare for the big shocks...

The strategist’s dilemma: According to Forbes, the amount of data created in the last two years is more than 90 percent of the world’s total data combined. Furthermore, IDC Global DataSphere forecasted in May 2020 that more than 59 zettabytes of data...

Lance Mortlock has spent his career working in the strategy space. Early on, he was part of a team at Shell looking into its planning processes, which gave him exposure to one of the imminent leaders in scenario planning...

In recent months the number of people who are leaving the workforce or switching jobs has become so great that it has been characterized as the "Great Resignation". Indeed, a recent survey from Microsoft found that over 40% of workers...

How can you prepare for an unexpected challenge? How do you plan for something you can't predict? Strategist Lance Mortlock demonstrates how scenario planning can help identify risks and expose vulnerabilities...