Do you want to:
Step back and see the bigger picture?
Empower your team to shape their futures?
Stop fearing unknowns?
Influence your preferred futures outcome?
Improve resilience to stay on the right path?
There is a way.
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The Futures Platform™ is the industry standard source for future trends, scenarios and long term change. It’s a tool for strategy and foresight projects, ensuring your organisation’s critical decisions can thrive in whatever happens next.
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insight & foresight offers the Futures Platform™ as a unique offering to organisations looking to deliver impact and future growth.
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insight & foresight combines the Futures Platform™ with proven foresight tools and methodologies, supported by over 20 years experience in executive management. It’s a unique, engaging and results driven offering.
Work with insight & foresight to access the Futures Platform™ to deliver improved, forward looking planning and decision making.
At the core of the Futures Platform™ is a database of 1000+ future trends and phenomena, created by a team of world’s leading futurists.
The Futures Platform™ in-house team of futurists work constantly on adding new and keeping existing content up to date.
Their rigorous analysis process draws from the methodology of future studies, and includes approaches like horizon scanning, driver mapping and scenario analysis.
Each analysis is peer reviewed before publication.
Screenshot of Futures Platform™ database dashboard. NB: accessible to insight & foresight staff only.
insight & foresight works with your team to identify the datapoints that matter most to your organisation’s futures. Together we curate a range of scenarios that form the basis for you to plan and make decisions around. The critical step is using the foresight data to support dynamic and adaptive plans that support the delivery of impact and future growth.
It’s thinking 5 to 10 years ahead to make decisions today.
A unique solution.
The Futures Platform™ allows for selected data points to be “mapped” on a foresight radar. Customised to your organisation’s needs a foresight radar dramatically improves your team’s ability to think about what might happen next - and plan accordingly.
How to map foresight datapoints.
A foresight radar is a robust visual way to start exploring and understanding related phenomena.
Example of a Futures Platform™ foresight radar.
Benefits of using foresight.
Understand how futures trends will impact the initiatives you are working on.
Broaden futures awareness in your team.
Start conversations across departments and silos and build a shared view of futures.
Bringing what’s happening outside into your decision making.
Enrich your conversations with customers and partners.
Discover new growth opportunities together.
Make sure you are not investing time and money into things that are not useful in the longer term.
The problem with historical data.
Most current organisational planning uses historical data as a basis to construct the rules and logic conclusions from which plans that "make sense" can be built. In this model, most of the data points used are internally sourced to create "if this, then that" logic models that allow Executives to attempt to forecast what will happen next from the actions they plan to take.
When external data is added to the planning process it is often sourced from other organisations to answer the question "What did they do in the past and what outcomes did they achieve. Can we replicate that result?". External data can also be sourced from economic, political, and social forecasts that have been built using the same historical data process as that used for the internal data points.
The common problem here is the use of the past to forecast the future. As the world changes faster and faster and uncertainty increases forecasts built off historical data shorten their predictive horizon as they become less reliable beyond 3, 6 or 12 months.
Historical performance data, whether sourced from internal or external sources, is no longer sufficient to support the decisions that need to be made to deliver impact and future growth. Most concerning is that this planning and decision-making process may be insufficient to even guarantee the survival of many organisations using business models and ways of working developed for the past and unlikely to survive whatever futures appear.
How can you improve your planning and decision-making?
Bring more outside data into the planning and decision-making process.
In particular, bring data in that encourages and supports your team to actively think about what futures might appear and how your organisation can prepare and adapt as they emerge.
In short, think 5 to 10 years ahead to make decisions today.
Anticipating the future is not magic.
All organisations can, and should, use foresight to ensure they take futures into account in their planning and decision making.
To provide a robust source of futures intelligence insight & foresight uses the Futures Platform™ - a digital foresight solution that helps us discover the trends and emerging changes that could impact on your organisation’s futures.
Insights from qualified futurists.
The Futures Platform’s team of qualified futurists continuously monitor the global landscape across all industries to detect which trends and phenomena might create change.
Foresight radar tool.
With the Futures Platform™ foresight radars, we can visualise alternative futures and collaborate with your team and other stakeholders in online sessions or workshops. Collect signals from your stakeholders with crowdsourcing, co-create shared views of desirable futures, and use voting and rating tools to prioritise our work.
Global view.
The dynamic content within the Futures Platform™ tool is backed up with AI-powered, continuously updating news feeds. This unique offering of futures intelligence is trusted by thousands of decision-makers around the world.
Access to 1000+ validated trends and emerging changes.
We use the Futures Platform™ database of over 1000 academically validated trends and emerging changes to dramatically improve your confidence and reliability in thinking 5 to 10 years ahead to make decisions today.
Foresight radar.
The Futures Platform™ foresight radars provide a unique visualisation of the emerging change that could impact your business.
See below the foresight radar created by the Futures Platform™ futurists using the Global Impacts of the 2022 War in Ukraine as the context.
