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What Business Problems Does Foresight Address?

In times of uncertainty, leaders often respond by cutting back on investments, freezing hiring, reducing marketing efforts, avoiding new market ventures, and even becoming indecisive. While these defensive moves are understandable and may have been necessary for survival in the past, in today's world they can hinder progress and lead to missed opportunities.

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How to Use Foresight to Ensure Long-Term Success.

Foresight is essential to long-term success because it gives businesses the ability to anticipate and adapt to change. By understanding customer needs, monitoring industry trends, exploring new technologies and preparing for multiple future scenarios, businesses can stay ahead of the curve and remain competitive in an ever-changing landscape.

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Prepare Your Business for Futures with insight & foresight.

The world is becoming more complex and unpredictable, making it difficult for businesses to stay ahead of their competition. This is where strategic foresight comes into play. It allows businesses to identify potential risks and opportunities before they arise, allowing them to make informed decisions about how best to move forward.

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The Power of Prospection: An Introduction to Innovating From Everywhere.

Prospection is a valuable skill because it helps us to remain agile while remaining rooted in our values. It allows us to innovate from everywhere —whether that's within our organisations, between different industries, or even in completely new spaces—allowing us to create and influence radical futures for ourselves and our businesses.

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The Future is Now: Anticipating Not Knowing.

To meet the challenges of tomorrow, we need to anticipate and prepare for the unknowns. This means understanding the systems and contexts that drive what is happening today in order to better understand what will happen next. It also requires a mindset shift towards embracing uncertainty instead of trying to eliminate it.

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Strategic Foresight - a robust method for dealing with adaptive problems.

Adaptive problems occur when organisations are faced with situations that require individuals throughout the organisation to alter their traditional ways of thinking to effectively address them. These types of issues are often challenging to solve, as typical problem-solving approaches and existing knowledge may not be sufficient for addressing them.

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