Long-Term Strategy for Complex Environments
We are a consortium that moves organizations from reactive thinking toward the design of long-term competitive strategies. Rooted in net assessment, deep historical study, strategic foresight, and extensive global experience, we offer professional training, workshops, and counsel to build capacity for long-term, advantage-based strategies.
About Us
The Competitive Strategies Consortium is an institutional collaboration of three premier strategy firms with offices in London, Zurich, Sydney, and Washington.
Together, we offer programs to build long-term, proactive, high-order thinking—the kind most difficult to achieve in the day-to-day of government bureaucracies.
Our exceptional strategists help states and organizations look beyond immediate pressures, toward the design and implementation of long-term, competitive strategies.
We work with democratic allies and partners on their national security, defense, and foreign affairs strategies, using net assessment and associated methods.
Our Engagements
Our engagements are tailored to our clients’ specific contexts and cultures, drawing on our extensive experience across the Atlantic and the Pacific.
We also provide counsel on organizational and process design to improve our clients’ capacities to manage uncertainty and complexity.
Our work is informed by our deep study in history, management, international politics, area studies, military theory, and strategic studies.
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Rigorous instruction in the foundational concepts, history, and methodologies of net assessment. We equip defense and foreign affairs practitioners with the analytical tools needed to identify deep structural trends and evaluate long-term strategic balances.
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Tailored seminars on long-term strategy designed around your organization's specific geopolitical and operational realities. These intensive sessions provide the analytical distance required to look past day-to-day crises.
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Exploration of plausible alternative futures and contingencies. We help organizations identify the drivers and uncertainties shaping their security environment, and isolate the decisions and indicators that matter.
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We work with organizations to translate diagnostic net assessment insights into concrete multi-domain roadmaps, ensuring strategic intent successfully reshapes your long-term posture against evolving competitors.
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Support to carry strategy from concept into institutional practice. We help align budgets, organizations, and processes with strategic intent, establish measures to track progress against long-term objectives, and build the mechanisms needed to adapt as competitors and conditions change.
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Bespoke counsel on structuring institutional processes to foster high-order, proactive strategic thinking.
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Disciplined analysis to challenge institutional assumptions, identify blind spots, and stress-test strategic plans. We help leadership anticipate unintended consequences and mitigate risk in complex environments.
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Bespoke games serve as analytical inputs to surface assumptions, illuminate how decision-makers might reason under pressure, and generate questions for further assessment.