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A strategic foresight advisory firm.


Helping business leaders evaluate market entry, capital risk, and regulatory exposure.

Who We Are


Robin Shaban, PhD

Economist and Public Policy Advisor

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Ron Memmel, MDes

Strategic Foresight Practitioner and Advisor

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Services


Our advisory and research services help executives, boards, and investors make confident decisions when facing uncertainty. By blending analytical rigor with creative foresight, we help clients deeply assess risks and opportunities.


Our clients include Canadian organizations operating in domestic markets and international firms seeking to enter Canada.

In today's volatile and fast-changing global environment, traditional strategic planning is no longer fit for purpose. Thriving in today’s environment requires more sophisticated, future-focused strategy.


We deliver strategic planning that equips executive teams and boards to make confident decisions, anticipate risk, and act early in fast-changing environments. Our approach integrates strategic foresight, rigorous economic research, and expert regulatory insight.


Our strategic planning supports:

      • Enterprise strategy refresh and repositioning
      • Early identification and management of emerging risks
      • Capital allocation and major investment decisions

Risk is no longer contained, predictable, or easily categorized. Geopolitical shifts, regulatory change, technological disruption, and market volatility are interacting in ways that traditional risk management frameworks are not designed to handle.


We help organizations build enterprise risk management systems that are forward-looking, integrated, and decision-relevant. Our approach moves beyond static risk registers to embed structured foresight, rigorous analysis, and scenario-based thinking into how organizations identify, assess, and manage risk.


Our enterprise risk management supports:

      • Early identification and monitoring of emerging and systemic risks
      • Scenario analysis and stress testing of strategic and investment decisions
      • Integration of risk into strategic planning, capital allocation, and governance processes

The Global Prosperity Bridge is a unique service that links proven global innovations to Canadian market opportunities. We help build profitable partnerships that also strengthen Canada’s economy and resilience.


We help clients identify strategic opportunities in Canada, develop forward-looking business plans, connect with the right Canadian partners, and provide executive support to implement projects locally.


With deep expertise in Canadian manufacturing, we focus on practical innovations that address rising costs, labour constraints, and slow technology adoption. Our goal is simple: improve productivity and support real economic growth.


Learn more about the Global Prosperity Bridge here

Additional Services

We help clients adopt and integrate frontier technologies into their operations, combining advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 expertise with strong connections to leading hubs in Europe and China. Our business planning integrates rigorous economic analysis and strategic foresight to guide deployment decisions and assess long-term value, risk, and return.

We analyze the policy and regulatory environments that shape business and investment outcomes. Our work goes beyond compliance to examine policy intent and how rules are applied in practice. By combining economic analysis with policy expertise, we help clients understand current regulations and anticipate change.

We design and apply economic models to quantify the costs, benefits, and distributional effects of business and policy decisions. Our analysis supports government relations and public-affairs teams by providing credible evidence for public and government engagement.

We help organizations assess how policy uncertainty, trade dynamics, and geopolitical shifts affect their strategy. By combining geopolitical, economic, and sector-specific analysis, we support leaders in stress-testing plans, identifying material risks, and making informed decisions in a fragmented global environment.

We deliver rigorous analysis of industry structure and competitive dynamics to identify where markets are constrained, inefficient, or ripe for disruption. Grounded in competition economics, we help clients build durable advantage and pursue disciplined growth.

We use structured scenario analysis to test strategies against a range of plausible futures, including upside opportunities, downside risks, and disruptive change. By combining foresight with economic and market analysis, we help leaders identify vulnerabilities, explore strategic options, and build resilience.

Our horizon scanning service provides ongoing insight into emerging trends, risks, and market shifts that affect strategic and investment decisions. Through continuous monitoring and expert analysis, we help leaders anticipate disruption and act early. 

We provide targeted training to build durable in-house capability in foresight, economic and policy analysis, and data-driven decision-making. Our practical programs equip teams with trusted, tailored frameworks they can apply with confidence.

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