The Death of the Business Plan (As We Knew It): Crafting Strategy in the Era of Degenerative Volatility

There is a peculiar cruelty in asking entrepreneurs and investors to produce five-year business plans while the civilisational scaffolding beneath us buckles and groans. Yet this is precisely what we continue to do—spreadsheets extending confidently into 2030, IRR calculations dancing obliviously over tectonic fractures, SWOT analyses treating systemic collapse as a line-item “threat” to be…