For the last 12 years Daniel Erasmus has facilitated scenario processes for a range of private and public sector clients around the world.  They include  Nokia, Rabobank, the city Rotterdam , the Rijksgebouwendienst, Schlumberger, Sanoma, Telenor, Vodafone, etc.  Among others, large scale scenarios processes were conducted anticipating the future of learning in 2020+, the future of ICT in financial services 2017, the future of wealth allocation in 2010, the future of television in 2010, future of mobile commerce in 2005, the future of 3G telephony 2009, the future of the relationship between society and governance in Holland in 2020, etc.

In 2008 Daniel published a scenario casebook the future role of IT in financial services sketching the DTN scenario thinking process.

Daniel is a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School and a fellow at The Rotterdam School of Management.  As a lecturer he has taught scenario thinking to more than a 1000 executives and post graduate MBA students at companies and business schools from Helsinki to Cape Town, and from Paris to Seoul.  For an overview of his recent lectures visit his initiative scenariothinking.org an open wiki on scenario thinking in the public domain.

With Niall Murphy, Daniel founded the DTN in 1996 to facilitate deeper thinking about the future of the emerging information society.  Today, with DTN partners, specifically Per Espen Stoknes and others, Daniel facilitates deep scenario thinking processes.  Strategic initiatives that resulting from DTN scenarios have facilitated € 400 million in additional valuation for DTN clients since 2001.  For commercial clients DTN scenarios has anticipated the global financial crisis (2006), a $70+ oil price (when it was $23), the foundering of the European constitution (2003), shifts to online and mobile television viewing (2003), rise of the Internet (1996), the long recession that followed the dot com-crash, delay in 3G implementation and the dominance of WiFi, the failure of WAP and success of SMS (all in 2000), etc. Visit the DTN’s web site for detailed information (www.dtn.net).

Daniel pioneered the use of scenarios to facilitate deep dialogue about the changing information society and it impact on our organisations, our work, and our societies.  The initial ideas appeared in the 1999 Financial Times Mastering Information Technology series under the title, A common language for strategy.  Since 1996 Daniel has facilitated more than a 100 scenario sets on these issues, ranging from the future of organisation in an information society to the future of the global village. 

He is currently completing, his Phd on complexity theory, post structuralist intervention strategies and scenario thinking at the University of Humanistics in Utrecht, the Netherlands.