Early warning is only valuable if organisations can act in time. As crises accelerate and decision windows shrink, the ability to turn intelligence into timely action is becoming a decisive source of strategic advantage.

Resilience can reduce one vulnerability while creating another. As organisations add suppliers, platforms, partners and backup systems, hidden dependencies and complexity can increase. The challenge is to understand which alternatives genuinely reduce risk, and which create new points of failure.

Organisations have more information about risk than ever before. The challenge is turning that information into timely decisions. Global Risk & Crisis Brief #20 examines the growing gap between risk awareness and strategic action, and why decision readiness is becoming a critical component of resilience.

Trust is becoming a strategic asset in an increasingly fragmented world. As confidence in institutions, partners and international commitments weakens, organisations respond with greater verification, redundancy and contingency planning. The erosion of trust may therefore create significant strategic costs long before it develops into a visible crisis.

Information is becoming a strategic battlefield, where influence, AI and digital manipulation can shape perceptions, undermine trust and create new vulnerabilities for organisations and societies.

Global interdependence has become a source of strategic vulnerability. As access to energy, technology, finance and supply chains becomes increasingly contested, resilience is becoming a critical strategic capability.

Global power is becoming more fragmented, making geopolitical risk harder to predict, manage and contain. Strategic Risk Snapshot #10 examines what this means for decision-makers.

Space has become far more than a frontier for exploration. It is now a critical layer of global infrastructure supporting communications, navigation, finance and national security. As geopolitical competition intensifies, protecting space-based systems is becoming an essential component of strategic risk management.

Critical infrastructure has become a defining arena of geopolitical competition. From energy grids and undersea cables to cloud services, ports and satellite communications, the systems that underpin the global economy are increasingly exposed to cyber threats, hybrid operations and strategic disruption. Strategic Risk Snapshot No. 8 examines why resilience is…

Critical minerals are rapidly becoming strategic assets that shape economic competitiveness, technological innovation and geopolitical influence. As governments and industries compete to secure reliable supplies, organisations must rethink resilience, supply chains and long-term strategic planning in an increasingly uncertain global environment.