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.
Explore with Strategy Futures Reimagined
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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 current AUKUS pathway relies on creating a nuclear submarine deterrence capability in Australia, but this plan is already experiencing challenges; the implementation timeline, potential cost escalation, skilled labor shortages, and political sustainability in each partner nation. While it promises advanced undersea capability, it requires decades of industrial development and substantial and continual investment by Australia, the UK, and the US. An alternative model is to rapidly create in Australia an Indo-Pacific hub for autonomous maritime systems development, deployment, and sustainment. Nuclear submarine acquisition by Australia is delayed or reduced. This alternative plan accelerates Phase II and shifts submarine operations to a system of port facilities in the Pacific. Multiple assessments have emphasized the importance of the AUKUS Pillar II focusing on advanced technologies such as autonomous undersea systems, AI-enabled ISR, quantum navigation, and cyber capabilities. However, the general assumption is that Phase I is also essential. This paper proposes making Australia a UUV-HUB and autonomous sensing data center for joint Pacific operations. It examines if an autonomy pivot could deliver equal or greater strategic value at lower costs more quickly than the current plan, but also provides possible autonomous force structures, deployment maps, and a five-year implementation plan for shifting to Pillar II as a priority. Find the full document for download or reading under the Articles and Papers tab.
