The Proteus Insights focus on a new way to consider problem sets and future scenarios. The ten insights (original nine, plus one) point toward a new way of considering actions or unintended consequences of strategic decisions: either commercial, diplomatic or military. These insights can be used as a set of lenses to view future issues through a different mindset, to consider issues through a different value set and to think creatively, not traditionally. The Proteus Insights and lenses have not only emerged as applicable to future planning and analysis for intelligence, but also for strategic and operational planners and decision makers within the Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational (JIIM) environment when considering the application of all elements of national power.