“I have known David now for over 2 years and have observed him in private meetings, speaking before internationally renowned audiences and in causal/social environments. What has always impressed me is his grasp of global events, his ability to engage and persuade on topics critical to the UK and its close allies and to clearly prioritize when faced with highly complex problem sets such as cyber security. A team builder and leader in his own right, I remain extremely impressed with his entrepreneurial approach to business and the quality of his strategic thinking. I am the better for knowing him and interacting with him both on a professional and personal level. I recommend him without reservation, to tackle the toughest problems needing solutions.”
David Livingstone
Strategic Change Management in Critical Minerals, Cybersecurity and Space sectors - each, and in any combination, including all together
London, England, United Kingdom
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Napier Meridian. Value-driven Intervention consultancy in strategy development, innovation and stakeholder management. Our principal verticals (there are others) are Critical Minerals, Space, and Cybersecurity - singly, in combination, or all together. Each of these, and all working together in different ways, are intrinsic to many economic aspirations, and can be summed up at global scale.
There are challenges everywhere. To do with retention of 'enterprise value' and coping with change, or hopefully taking advantage of it. But The Change is accelerating. The New Great Game for critical minerals supplying low-carbon industries and the pending disasters in ESG that this will bring. Diversification of supply chains to ensure equitable opportunity for everyone as we all head towards our obligations of Paris 2050.
The value of the space domain, as the key attributes of Persistence and Ubiquity in earth observation capacities are nearly with us; but can only be fully capitalised if user communities understand the Opportunity of New Space.
A hyper-connected world, but made vulnerable by those very same connections. Artificial Intelligence bringing benefits, but also bringing risks. The potential behind distributed ledger technologies to verify complex supply chains. Supply chains that include those for critical minerals.
An increasingly unstable world that presents both new and also novel threats - who thought in 2020 that gas bubbles would now be rising to the surface of the Baltic Sea? A financial world in which verifiable ESG performance, or even just an expectation of decent corporate conduct, will be the slings and arrows wielded by the Investor Community when boardrooms don't quite 'get the point'. The quantifiable achievement of Just Transition.
And that quiescent asset that has so much unrealised human and economic value, and that is that of women having their right place in science & technology, and the workplace.
The tempo of The Change is quickening. Old, ponderous and unreactive enterprises, whether government, industrial or financial, will lose value and / or fall by the wayside; and the vacuum created will herald in fast paced and value-focused substitutes, and that value is just not financial in nature.
Do not fear your adversaries, of whatever nature, in this New Order of Things*; on the path there will be uncertainties for everyone, but Napier Meridian understands more than most how to navigate them.
* - Please read this https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/machiavelli-change-innovation-guido-stroemer/
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What are the best books on strategic thinking and planning for leaders?
Bunch of Five, by Frank Kitson. This is required reading in military staff colleges, but has ample application in commercial settings. It describes Gen Kitson’s experiences in the complexities of irregular warfare, and, in particular, arriving at action plans to resolve number of complex national level security challenges. The read-across to civilian business contexts are manifold, particularly his ‘stakeholder management’ strategy in successfully resolving the Malayan Emergency of 1956. A counter insurgency campaign that worked? You have to believe it?
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