KLM, Inc. Strategic Chronicle Summer 2005 p3

Inside This Issue:

• Tech-Transfer Strategy (p1)
• "The Ethical Crisis in America" - A Status Report (p2)
• Strategic Monitor - Strategy and Time (p3)

Strategic Monitor
Strategy and Time

Any thinking about strategy is by necessity also thinking about time - the past, and its lessons; the present, and its realities; and the future, and its possibilities.

All strategies undertaken presuppose some view or prediction about the future and the causal capability of some one or another strategy to determine a future state of affairs.

Mapping the Global Future, prepared by the National Intelligence Council, and recently released, analyzes the major trends shaping the future, and provides various scenario plans of how the trends may interact to create the future in 2010 and 2015.

The study is vast and addresses globalization, the rise of India and China, the role of America, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and global religions.

The study is impressive and a valuable study for strategists focussed on understanding the longer-term future. The study is available at: www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html.