Testimonials
Resilient Futures attracts people and organizations that want real solutions to real issues and have found that most methodologies just don’t stack up in the face of complex change. In practice, the Framework has been found to be understandable, manageable and to produce actions and outcomes that deliver real value at a fraction of the usual costs.
The Resilient Futures Framework is a new way of thinking for a world that works differently. Whether you are in senior management, marketing, planning, innovation, sustainability, corporate social responsibility or any key decision-making role in an organization or community, you need to be aware of the Framework and why it is important.
- Bill Gordon, Business & Social Entrepreneur and Investor
Resilient Futures thinking and the Framework is the foundation of the work I am doing because it is the only tool I know of that turns complexity into opportunity and enables multiple stakeholders to quickly grasp what is possible and to be involved. In just over 12 months, the Reinventing Stamford network has grown from 3 to 500 members and is taking action based on a deep understanding and analysis of the conditions that are being faced.
- Kip Bergstrom, Executive Director – Stamford Urban Redevelopment Commission
The Resilient Futures Framework has enabled me and my team to develop an approach to managing a complex set of conditions that are constantly changing. The Framework provides a mechanism for bringing a diverse set of participants together to share a common view of the Conditions, both current and emergent, and a process for adapting strategies to address changing Conditions.
- General Manager – Multinational IT Company
By focusing on real capabilities, resources and challenges – and getting away from old rhetoric, the Framework allows participants to tackle key issues. Reinventing Stamford encouraged interested citizens of Stamford, including myself, to think in a new and focused way about how our city and regional systems could work better, our education programs could be more effective, how we could implement new strategies, and most importantly, engage in true civil discourse.
- Barry Hersh, AICP Clinical Associate Professor – New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate
In applying the Resilient Futures Framework keeping immediate and emergent conditions in mind helped me make sure that I was always accounting for the big picture in the local decision making process. Being able to shape our capabilities in relation to that big picture understanding meant that we were often able to realise real savings in time and cost while avoiding some of the pitfalls that were on the road ahead.
- Peter Vawdrey, Automotive Engineer
The Framework scales to whatever issue and resource requirements are necessary whether large or small and whether implemented by a board and/or frontline team.
Because the organization as a whole will work with the same strategic framework and language on specific issues, there will always be synergies between the different strategies.
In the past few years, the accepted wisdom has focused on the desire and need for “sustainability”, however sustainability is not enough in a world that keeps on changing. The need for change can often contradict the need for sustainability. For me, that’s where the Resilient Futures framework is far more helpful. The RF framework provides a valuable process that takes into account the conditions that do – or could – affect us, and addresses the requirement to build our capability to quickly adapt to changing conditions.
This is not about living in a world where only the fittest survive. To me, Resilient Futures is about building people, organizations and societies that can quickly change to survive, to grow and to prosper.- Richard Keeves, Online Entrepreneur , Founder and Executive Chairman, Business InfoMedia Online
