Why Good Scenarios Don’t Change Decisions — And What to Do About It

Most organizations that do scenario planning have the same problem: the scenarios are good, but the decisions that follow don’t use them. Scenario planning is the work of building scenarios — modeling futures, assessing risks, and identifying what could change. Scenario acting is what’s supposed to come next: consulting those scenarios when a real decision…

From Standard to System — The Open Footprint® JSON Schema Files

By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Sustainability and Market Development, The Open Group

Machine-Verifiable Schemas That Make the Open Footprint® Data Model Implementation-Ready

Standards are only as valuable as their ability to be put into practice. The Open Footprint® JSON Schema files bridge the gap between the Open Footprint® Standard’s logical data model and real-world technical implementation — providing machine-readable, validation-ready schema definitions that organizations can use immediately to build conformant emissions data systems.