The Global Strategic Intelligence 50 – 2026

A board-level reference framework on why good decisions fail under systemic friction.

The Global Strategic Intelligence 50 is a doctrinal framework designed to explain how organizations lose priority without crisis — and how boards misread risk when approval replaces closure.

It does not forecast events.
It explains how systems select.

What This Framework Is — and Is Not

The Global Strategic Intelligence 50 is not a geopolitical forecast, a risk index, or a monitoring service.

It is a board-level strategic intelligence framework that identifies 50 recurring vulnerabilities that cause organizational failure even when events are anticipated, approvals secured, and strategies deemed reasonable.

Its focus is not volatility or uncertainty in the abstract, but systemic selection:
how regulatory, financial, and institutional systems silently reorder organizational priority under sustained pressure.

Why This Framework Exists

Across sectors and jurisdictions, organizations are increasingly penalized not for bad intentions or poor analysis — but for misaligned sequencing, unresolved dependencies, and excessive tolerance consumption.

In high-load environments, systems do not fail loudly.
They deprioritize quietly.

This framework introduces three core concepts to explain that dynamic:

• Selection Logic — how systems filter actors under pressure

• Sequencing Discipline — why order matters more than speed

• Tolerance Consumption — how institutional patience is exhausted over time

Together, they explain organizational failure without crisis.

Who This Is For

This framework is designed for:

• Board members and chairs

• CEOs and executive committees

• Institutional investors and lenders

• Public-sector and regulatory leadership

• Strategic risk and intelligence functions

It is most effectively used in:

• board retreats,

• post-mortem reviews,

• strategic assumption audits,

• governance redesign under regulatory pressure.

About the Author

José Parejo & Associates is a strategic intelligence and geopolitical risk advisory firm working with boards, institutional investors, and public-sector leadership in complex regulatory and geopolitical environments.

The Global Strategic Intelligence 50 synthesizes patterns observed across advisory engagements with multinational corporations, regulated industries, and institutional actors operating under sustained systemic pressure.

JPA’s work focuses on strategic intelligence for boards, where traditional risk frameworks underperform and decision failure emerges through silent deprioritization rather than overt crisis.

Access the Framework

The Global Strategic Intelligence 50 is intended as a reference document — to be cited, revisited, and applied ex-post.

Download the Global Strategic Intelligence 50 – 2026 (PDF)