#144 - How to Adapt to The World in 2050: Beyond Tomorrow - with Nikolaus Lang
About this episode
Nikolaus Lang discusses how organizations can prepare for a world of uncertainty by exploring future scenarios and building structural resilience.
One of the world's leading voices on long-range strategic thinking, Nikolaus Lang, joins us to unpack what it truly takes to prepare organisations for a world of deep uncertainty. Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group and Global Leader of the BCG Henderson Institute, Nikolaus is one of the lead authors of Beyond Tomorrow: Four Scenarios for the World of 2050 - a landmark work that combines qualitative scenario thinking with rigorous quantitative modelling across 100 megatrends and 20 KPIs. In this conversation, we explore the four divergent futures BCG has mapped out - from AI Abundance to Battling Blocks, Climate Coalition to Digital Darwinism, and what they mean for how organisations should think, adapt, and act today. We dig into structural resilience, the geopolitics of technology, the return of localisation, and why the smartest move for any company right now is to build for optionality rather than optimise for a single future. Tune in to answer the most important strategic question of our time: what kind of world are we actually preparing for? What if the smartest strategy isn't a single bold bet, but to be able to remain coherent across multiple…
More episodes of Boundaryless Conversations Podcast
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Boundaryless Conversations Podcast podcast page.