Jean-Dominique Dulière has been leading until recently and for more than ten years in Brussels, NATO’s crisis response systems and high level exercising in order to prepare the Alliance for potential unpredictable scenarios, crises and conflicts. Before that, he worked for the French Ministry of Defence including at Interagency level.
For him, anticipation is mandatory; and readiness, preparedness and resilience to future strategic shocks should form part of the everyday work of private companies, as most recently demonstrated by the devastating effects of the Covid crisis and of the Russia and Ukraine crisis on several large firms. In addition, in a world of interdependencies, some useful tools can assist large companies in anticipating or in assessing the cascading effects of strategic shocks and help them to mitigate them.