I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking.
Today’s scenario prompt: restorative economics as a business model
Scarcity has been strategy’s default. That assumption is breaking. AI-accelerated biotech, energy breakthroughs, repair platforms, and collective intelligence are making abundance engineered, not hypothetical.
If abundance scales, business models built on extraction, friction, and planned obsolescence don’t just weaken — they fail. The advantage shifts from optimising scarcity to designing restorative economics: models that regenerate resources, talent, trust, and ecosystems faster than they consume them.
If your strategy still assumes scarcity, you’re building for a world that’s already ending.
The CEO question
If restorative economics becomes the dominant growth logic, which part of your business is structurally unable to regenerate value — and how long can you keep ignoring that?
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