Newswise — What will our world look like in 15 years? If your organization hasn’t paused to consider this question, Erik Peterson, senior advisor for a prominent D.C. think-tank, says you’re risking your company’s future and bottom line.
PetersonPeterson, senior advisor for the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) and director of the Global Business Policy Council at A.T. Kearney, will answer this question for local business leaders during an upcoming event at Saint Joseph’s University.
SEVEN REVOLUTIONS will take place on Tuesday, March 23, in Mandeville Hall. A reception in Mandeville’s lobby will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the presentation at 6:30 p.m. in Wolfington Teletorium. This event is sponsored by the HSB Alumni Chapter and is free and open to the public.
“What we’ve learned from the collapse of Wall Street is that a lack of farsightedness is not a sustainable way to do business,” says Peterson. “Wall Street’s collapse is emblematic of what happens when executives are too concerned with the quick kill and forego actions designed to make their operations sustainable in the longer-term.”
Peterson’s presentation will highlight the big-ticket issues that businesses and other organizations need to be watching. With his insight, local business leaders and educators will have the opportunity to visualize their future potential — good, bad and ugly — and develop concrete approaches to prepare for a rapidly changing world.
“The tectonic forces working beneath us — you won’t hear about them on the 10 o’clock news,” says Peterson. “But these forces will have a huge impact on an organization’s future success.”
Attendees will gain insight into the seven areas Peterson predicts will experience radical change in the future: population; resource management and environmental stewardship; technological innovation and diffusion; development and dissemination of information and knowledge; economic integration; the nature of mode of conflict; and the challenge of governance.
In response to Peterson’s presentation, a spokesperson for The National Defense University, the U.S. Department of Defense, said: “The substance of the issues, the complexity of the individual components and the quality of analysis on the meaning of each of these factors for our collective future shone through and resonated with this audience. He [Peterson] is a credit to CSIS and an outstanding national asset.”
Past audiences include GE, Boeing, Lafarge, Wal-Mart, ABN AMRO, Merrill Lynch, Notre Dame University, the Wharton School of Business, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Security Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard, the United States Secret Service, the American Chemistry Council, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
For more information, visit: http://csis.org/program/seven-revolutions or call 610-660-1876.
Background: Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1851, Saint Joseph's University advances the professional and personal ambitions of men and women by providing a demanding, yet supportive, educational experience. One of only 139 schools with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and AACSB business school accreditation, Saint Joseph's is home to 4,200 full-time undergraduates and 3,100 graduate, part-time and doctoral students. Steeped in the 450-year Jesuit tradition of scholarship and service, Saint Joseph's was named to the 2008 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for General Community Service. The University strives to be recognized as the preeminent Catholic comprehensive university in the Northeast.
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