A future strategist

A futurist helps individuals, companies, and organizations understand the forces and signals that shape the future, helping you create a clear vision of your organization’s future. We do this by filtering out the noise and providing an objective outside view of your organization’s operating environment.

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What is foresight?

To be successful in the future, we need to understand that there is not one but several possible futures. Similarly, we need to understand the future context of how business, society, humanity, technology, and nature are all interdependent… how the future is a cohesive system of the whole rather than a collection of disparate parts.

Foresight is the process of identifying those possible futures and using them as input to the strategic process. One could say that Foresight is to Strategy, what a map is to route planning… it provides the framework, the constraints, the options, and the possibilities. Naturally, as with any road trip, there will be delightful surprises as we navigate towards a future state.

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Future Strategy Workshops

In these workshops, we dive into the future, exploring the forces and signals that affect you and your organization, resulting in a set of future scenarios and a high-level roadmap of how you can reach your ideal future.

During the process, we will use several foresight tools and techniques to analyze, evaluate, and map possible future developments in technology, business, society, demographics, and climate change that could be relevant to your future success.

These workshops can be done either as in-person workshops or as a series of online sessions.

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Foresight Project Services

Having access to an objective and outside point of view when making decisions could provide invaluable insights.

These ‘Foresight Project Services’ could range from providing a high-level summary of the current ‘future thinking’ about a specific subject, an in-depth analysis, a long-term forces and signals tracking project, to a bespoke foresight training program.

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Building Foresight Skills – Tools & Techniques to Think Differently About the Future

One of the biggest challenges with thinking about and planning for the future, is to get comfortable with that there is not one future but many different possible futures. Actually, there are an infinite amount of different futures, ranging from the rosy utopian to the darker dystopian scenarios, from the “if nothing changes we’ll end up here” to the chaotic events of “Black Swans” or other “Wild Cards”.

The ability to decode and think differently about the future, enables us to start anticipating changes before they arrive at our doorstep. A future ready organisation is an organisation that have these foresight skills and thinking and that uses these skills on a daily basis.

To explore more about how I can help you and your organisation to be more prepared and think differently about the future, drop me a line.

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