Andres Agostini
(Brief Professional Profile)
Andres Agostini operates as an adviser, consultant, strategist, professional futurologist (incumbent of Future Studies), project leader, manager, etc. He institutes such undertakings in the tradition of a nonpartisan think tank and skunkworks’ perennial capturing of success towards turnkey solutions (i.e., solving complex problems). Such as it is implemented by Lockheed Martin Corporation, Boeing, GE, and other private enterprises around and beyond the Industrial Military Complex.
Agostini is a consultant to think tanks, multilaterals, supranationals, as well as to enterprises whose core business is into oil-and-energy, maritime, health-care, insurance, group employee benefits, logistics, transport, and consultancy.
Agostini is in no way attempting to be either a seer, or a soothsayer, diviner, or prophet, who can foretell the future. He's committed to learning of early every valuable lessons to more readily adapt to whatever demands.
In managing corporate and operational risks of many diverse natures, one needs not only to identify and recognize hazards but to anticipate them, very early on (and preemptively so, for Life), along with future and advanced disruption potentials (as well as ignored benefits and opportunities). This is instituted in the tradition of rigorous futures studies (never Futurism) coupled with a plethora of other practical disciplines.
In the last analysis and very seriously stated, this view here offers a lucrative and a useful pathway and a practical tool that requires from practitioners much better intellectual preparedness when facing systemic volatility, universal uncertainty and ubiquitous change and ambiguity.
When and if officially committed with his client and/or customer, Agostini will unveil plausible propensities and trends and tendencies in extensive details.
Agostini will only unveil the inter-meshing, the intertwining and the inter-coalescing of the DRIVING FORCES that will shape and re-shape the future and the present / continuum (so-called) in the most unambiguous and methodical way.
He will offer also the sequential steps to outsmart every downside and upside via his own "Transformative and Integrative Risk Management" (TAIRM), as defined at http://goo.gl/qd2BH
Let it be known outright and well in advance that Transformative and Integrative Risk Management (TAIRM) above takes into great consideration the qualitative analyzes.
Nonetheless, its greatest focus and differentiation is dynamically in place through holistic, systemic, systematic QUALITATIVE ANALYZES fluidly.
The most important objective within TAIRM is to make things happen the soonest, yet organically, as well as through flexible and resilient approaches.
Once you deeply understand the UPSIDES and DOWNSIDES, the application of TAIRM stops attempting to be arcane to be a cross-functional and multidimensional toolkit to amplify the fiscally-sound continuity of your organization (business, NGO, multilateral, or supranational).
BY RISK MANAGEMENT, Agostini NEVER means “risk management” as it is understood in the financial systems and or the adjoining sectors.
TAIRM mitigates, modulates, and terminates designated RISKS through vast application of instrumental knowledge in order to bring complicated challenges and problems under control, thus unleashing sustainable earnings and differentiated strategic value.
Accordingly, the idea is to upgrade and sustain the financials of the entity exposed to such risks. For instance, mere outsourcing or offshoring is by no means, under this methodology, a “risk management” practice. In itself is a step less suboptimal than contra-productive.
Andres Agostini argues: “...Risk management is to prevent technological surprise to the wise organization seeking this advice and service, but also to create technological surprise for the enterprise’s competitors...”
This notion is better understood when the maxim “... strategy is a function of a grander risk management program and not the other way around...” is fully accepted and practiced.
Agostini’s customers and clients will get his thorough and in-depth description of the DRIVING FORCES and their potential tendencies and trajectories concerning the internal and external environments of their organizations.
Clearly, describing the dynamics in rigor is coupled by robust operational plans, given that he concentrates ─ in profound consideration ─ on the start as it is projected towards the end and the respective milestone completion.
To cite an instance and with full support by public and private agencies, “Transformative and Integrative Risk Management” can be used to mitigate, modulate, and terminate a gamut of hazards (including those used by many forms of extremism).
The most interesting risks are those covertly entrenched since they offer a greater potential for profit. Yes, yes, yes ─ as you see it first and understand it in much more than one way ─ you proactively transform said risks into overt fiscally-sound profits.
What Agostini doesn’t like (included in his intellectual manifesto), literally: “...I'm against fashionable thinking ... I'm against ignorance ... I am against the whole cliche of the moment ... I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking … I am against incomplete, nonlinear thinking...” Read Agostini’s intellectual manifesto at http://goo.gl/dxzV0
Agostini is never into intuitiveness though he greatly value insight, foresight, and far-sight, as well as counter seeing!
Given that since the 60’s science and technology have made the world OVER-EXPONENTIALLY AND TRANS-GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR, he perpetually operates in a strong-sense, critico-creative thinking mode, through amplified nuanced discernment and gradation judgment
As this is happening now in both marketplace and society at large with the utmost speed and acceleration by an ever-increasing velocity, then in this case the “over-exponentially and trans-geometrically NONLINEAR” mentality must be coupled (a) in pondering and (b) in deed with THE MOST EXTREME COUNTERINTUITIVENESS AND CLEVER SENSE OF URGENCY.
Huge comfort before a complexity-mired world subsequently besieged by paradoxes and contradictions (only if the minds are duly prepared for Life) will prove to be greatly fruitful.
This must-have comfort is a pervasive asset as a result of the fluid alignment of multiple decisive efforts.
As a consultant and management educator, Agostini has worked for companies as diverse as Toyota, Mitsubishi, World Bank, Shell, Statoil, Total, Exxon, Mobil, Citgo, PDVSA, GE, GMAC, UPS, TNT Delivery Express, GTE, Amoco, BP, Abbot Laboratories, World Health Organization, Ernst Young Consulting, SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), PakMail, Wilpro (Williams Company), Phillips Petroleum Company, Dupont, Conoco, ENI (Italy’s petroleum state-owned corporation), Chevron, LDG Management (HCC Benefits).
Product of over twenty years of expertise, Agostini articulated some of his thinking and that of others through presentations, papers, and the Futuretronium Book at http://goo.gl/zvSV7
He is also the Publisher and Editor of the “Observatory of the Future” at http://goo.gl/XB68l, designated for those that won’t settle for less than the cutting-edge of science and technology.
NB #1: Most extended Professional Profile at http://goo.gl/OLVzO
NB #2:Additional information and resources at http://goo.gl/OhAgV
