What is Visions for Tomorrow?
Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz- Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network, a Monitor Group company, and a partner of the Monitor Group, a family of professional services firms devoted to enhancing client competitiveness. An internationally-renowned futurist and business strategist, Mr. Schwartz specializes in scenario planning, working with corporations, governments, and institutions to create alternative perspectives of the future and develop robust strategies for a changing and uncertain world. His current research and scenario work encompasses energy resources and the environment, technology, telecommunications, media and entertainment, aerospace, and national security. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the board of trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, the Long Now Foundation, the World Affairs Council and Human Rights Watch.
- From 1982 to 1986, Mr. Schwartz headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies. Before joining Royal Dutch/Shell, he directed the Strategic Environment Center at SRI International. The Center researched the business milieu, lifestyles, and consumer values, and conducted scenario planning for corporate and government clients.
- Mr. Schwartz is the author of “Inevitable Surprises,” a provocative look at the dynamic forces at play in the world today and their implications for business and society. His first book, “The Art of the Long View,” is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning and has been translated into multiple languages. He is also the co-author of “The Long Boom,” a vision for the world characterized by global openness, prosperity, and discovery; “When Good Companies Do Bad Things,” an examination of, and argument for, corporate social responsibility; and “China’s Futures,” which describes very different scenarios for China and their international implications. Mr. Schwartz publishes and lectures widely and served as a script consultant on the films The Minority Report, Deep Impact, Sneakers and War Games. He holds a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and astronautics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.