Bringing the long view of risk into today’s decisions
Risk-informed Institutional Planning
Strategic planning, also referred to as visioning, informed by risk science enables institutional executive leadership and boards to anticipate future conditions, plan under uncertainty, and navigate long-term transformations. Clients seek ways to integrate foresight into governance, opportunities, and system design to enhance resilience and credibility.
How RSI delivers Risk-informed Institutional Planning
RSI applies structured foresight methodologies that leverage risk framing to identify early signals, explore plausible futures, and support strategic decision-making. Our approach combines environmental scanning, risk pathway modeling, stakeholder engagement, and scenario-based planning to help clients prepare for—and shape—the futures they face.
Why RSI is trusted to deliver
RSI has guided national and international institutions in building foresight capacity that is grounded in scientific risk evaluation and sensitive to sociopolitical and ecological complexity. Our work has supported climate resilience, food system transformation, technology regulation, and institutional design. Among RSI and RSI’s experts work one finds: The International Herald Tribune, the International Organization for Migration, World Wide Fund for Nature, UN-Habitat, Global Forum for Health Research
Understanding, managing, and communicating risk
Why this image?
Institutions—whether public, private, or non-profit—face a future shaped by uncertainty. Risk-informed planning ensures they don’t just react to change, but prepare for it. The image of a boardroom reflects the place where long-term strategies are shaped, priorities are set, and commitments are made. RSI supports these critical conversations with structured foresight, evidence-based risk analysis, and tools that help institutions plan with both ambition and resilience—ensuring today’s decisions stand up to tomorrow’s challenges.