Strategic Futures Compass - Navigation Guidebook Under Deep Uncertainty

Has radical uncertainty made strategy impossible?

In a world shaped by accelerating disruption, growing volatility, and unprecedented complexity, traditional strategic approaches are reaching their limits. Leaders are finding it increasingly difficult not only to build strategy, but even to read the emerging possibilities within their environment.

Strategic Futures Compass provides a practical framework for navigating this new reality.

Designed as a decision-making compass for executives, strategists, and transformation leaders, it helps organizations regain orientation amid radical uncertainty and build the capabilities required to thrive in unpredictable futures. Rather than attempting to predict what comes next, the book offers a structured approach to nurturing four essential strategic functions: clarifying intent, enhancing robustness, enabling emergence, and sustaining a culture capable of evolving with changing circumstances.

Combining strategic foresight, systems thinking, and actionable leadership practices, Strategic Futures Compass translates complexity into meaningful strategic choices. It equips decision-makers with the mindset and tools needed to navigate ambiguity, create resilience, and unlock new opportunities in a constantly shifting world.

A practical guide for those who must lead when certainty is no longer available, this book is the result of a research work conducted in collaboration between Camille Gauthier, futurist and specialist in organizational strategy issues, the global network of strategy consulting firms Nextcontinent, and the ESSEC Management Research Chair directed by Professor David Autissier.