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| The Soul | The Voice | The Human | The Trust |
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Lori Davis has spent a lifetime working where storytelling, media, market strategy and strategic analysis converge. From radio and television to the Global 2000 C-suite, her work has always begun in the same place: looking beyond what is happening to understand why it is happening, what is moving around it, and what it may mean next. Her gift is seeing the moving parts—often before they become obvious—and then finding the human story that makes the “so what?” understandable. Storytelling is how Lori makes complexity human. Strategic analysis is how she finds the story.
Lori brings a lifetime of storytelling, media (radio & television), marketing and market strategy into one room...
Every good story starts by noticing what everyone else walked past.
| The Soul | The Voice | The Human | The Truth |
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WHAT
STORYTELLING ⟶
story + meaning + people + memory
MEDIA + MARKETING ⟶
audience + message + media + connection
WHY / SO WHAT
MARKET STRATEGY ⟶
what is moving and why
BUSINESS CONVERGENCE ⟶
what is colliding and merging
FROM THE C-SUITE TO THE KITCHEN TABLE
Twenty-five years ago, this kind of strategic seeing was expensive. Senior strategic analysts could command $250,000 base salaries, supported by enterprise research, proprietary databases, experts and information infrastructures available primarily to the world’s largest companies.
They weren’t paid simply to know more. They were paid to see differently.
To look beyond today’s headline.
To recognize movement before it became obvious.
To connect changes across markets, industries and time.
To separate signal from noise.
And to ask the question that matters most:
SO WHAT?
Technology is changing the economics of that capability. Just as media-production tools once reserved for studios eventually found their way onto a phone, powerful research and analytical tools are moving beyond the walls of the enterprise. But having the tool isn’t enough.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO LOOK.
That’s what we’re here to share. We’ll show you how strategic analysts look for change, test what they’re seeing, find what’s missing, follow movement across time, and turn information into better-informed decisions.
For your family.
For your investments.
For your business.
For whatever you’re trying to build next.
THEN $250K analyst + enterprise information infrastructure → C-suite
NOW. Expanded information capability + proven analytical discipline → your kitchen table
A BIGGER WINDOW AND A BETTER WAY TO LOOK THROUGH IT.
You don’t need to be one of the big boys to learn how they see.
Meta Paradigm™ | A powerful tool. A disciplined method. Human judgment.
Strategic analysts have always used tools to expand what they can see. Lori was conducting strategic analysis for the Global 2000 long before sophisticated tools existed to “crawl,” as she calls it. She was crawling across industries, markets, research and information for some of the world’s largest companies before the worldwide web was worldwide. Lori has built The Meta Paradigm™ Analytical System (MPAS) to track where the world is going and the heart beat of the moment.
MPAS dramatically expands that research field—searching across large volumes of information, disciplines, sources and time.
More information does not automatically produce better decisions. In strategic analysis, the discipline of the method matters. Powerful crawling tools can dramatically expand the field of information available to the analyst, but they do not supersede human judgment, peer-to-peer contribution, or analytical discipline.
At Stone & Arrow, Lori works inside a disciplined strategic-analysis process designed to keep the work clean: separate evidence from inference, preserve source and provenance, identify gaps and conflicting evidence, distinguish what we know from what we think, and examine change across time and context.
The tool expands the field of view.
The method disciplines the analysis.
The human remains responsible for the judgment.
Lori works from her META Paradigm™ research model, which has been in operation for nearly 30 years. The analytical framework predates today’s AI tools and was developed independently of them.