Henry Mintzberg once framed strategy by referring to it as the "five Ps." Namely:
- Plans, an intended course of action that will lead to fruitful outcomes.
- Positions, where you and or your community stand in terms of the other players on the field.
- Perspectives, your embodied cognition, or to put it another way, your unique point of view from the interplay of all the forces that are shaping your strategy.
- Patterns, the history of your moves, learning, hard knocks, and scars up to this moment. Patterns can help us recognize the things we're really good at or the things will need to learn to make our move, or frankly the things we'll never be good at.
- and Finally, Ploys. When all of your external signals telegraph that you'll go left when really you're going to go right.
Below are some of our projects that we've used to test out our strategic foresight assertions "faster than real-time" so we can learn the second and third-order impacts of our choices today.