#Mindcandy are scenario prompts prompts to help companies formulate strategy.
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How to use the prompts
Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 14 April 2025
Todays prompts are sustainability, fusion, nuclear, organisational reinvention, engineered bacteria as sensors, AI in 2027 (you are the upgrade), strategic resilience, liquid electrodes, and the AI effort gap.
Ignoring environmental exposures is a risk
What’s behind the great sustainability stall?
Ignoring environmental exposures is a risk most firms can’t afford
Made-in-Canada fusion breakthrough could change the future of global energy
https://thedebrief.org/made-in-canada-fusion-breakthrough-could-change-the-future-of-global-energy/
With plasma being created daily in the machine, by compressing plasmas with a lithium liner to create fusion and heating from compression, the team at General Fusion has been tweaking the system to move to the next phase, which is compressing the plasma to create fusion and release energy.
US firm unveils powerful nuclear reactor prototype to power data centers
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/extra-modular-nuclear-reactor-aalo-atomics
The Aalo Pod is designed to work in a grid-independent, fully dependent, or hybrid mode, giving users much-needed flexibility with nuclear and available grid power.
Rebuilding a Company Around People, Not Power
https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/rebuilding-a-company-around-people-not-power
From family business to organizational reinvention
Engineered bacteria emit signals that can be spotted from a distance
https://news.mit.edu/2025/engineered-bacteria-emit-signals-spotted-from-distance-0411
These bacteria, which could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, could act as sensors to help farmers monitor their crops.
AI 2027
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. Read up on AI (you are the upgrade). See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Strategic Resilience And Agility: 4 Essentials To Thrive In A BANI World
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marycrossan/2025/04/11/strategic-resilience-and-agility-4-essentials-to-thrive-in-a-bani-world/
Don’t Underestimate The Effects Of VUCA And BANI. Perhaps the biggest mistake in strategy is not attending to the nature of the risk embedded within it.
Swedish scientists build battery with toothpaste-like structure that takes any shape
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/fluid-battery-can-take-any-shape
The key to developing such a battery has been using liquid electrodes instead of solid ones.
The AI effort gap
https://seths.blog/2025/04/the-ai-effort-gap/
You are the upgrade. See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
