Napier Collyns
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Napier Collyns is a co-founder and member of the Global Business Network
. He is a former senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the New York Mercantile Exchange
.
He is perhaps best known for his 30 years of work in the oil industry, and his work as part of a small team at Royal Dutch/Shell Group that worked in the 1970s under Pierre Wack. This team developed the concept of Scenario planning
for commercial organizations. He also served as a consultant on former colleague Daniel Yergin
's Pulitzer Prize winning work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
.
Collyns resides in New York, Berkeley, CA and London.
Global Business Network
Global Business Network, or GBN, is a strategy consulting firm and member of Monitor Group, that helps businesses, NGOs, and governments use scenario planning to plan for multiple possible futures....
. He is a former senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the New York Mercantile Exchange
New York Mercantile Exchange
The New York Mercantile Exchange is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange. It is located at One North End Avenue in the World Financial Center in the Battery Park City section of Manhattan, New York City...
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He is perhaps best known for his 30 years of work in the oil industry, and his work as part of a small team at Royal Dutch/Shell Group that worked in the 1970s under Pierre Wack. This team developed the concept of Scenario planning
Scenario planning
Scenario planning, also called scenario thinking or scenario analysis, is a strategic planning method that some organizations use to make flexible long-term plans. It is in large part an adaptation and generalization of classic methods used by military intelligence.The original method was that a...
for commercial organizations. He also served as a consultant on former colleague Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin
Daniel Howard Yergin is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Inc...
's Pulitzer Prize winning work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 800-page history of the global oil industry from the 1850s through 1990...
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Collyns resides in New York, Berkeley, CA and London.