Strategic Foresight
Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. Photo by Victor on Unsplash.
The following approach is based on The Institute for the Future (IFTF)'s Framework. Book a free consultation to discuss a customized strategy to your specific business needs.
Phase i: Foresight
Specifying the research topic
Collecting & analyzing signals
Tool: Look Back to Look Forward
Creating forecasts: reviewing signals & drivers
Tool: Reveal Unexpected Possibilities
Building scenarios: reviewing signals & drivers
Updating a forecast from the past to look forward
Phase ii: Insight
Unsticking the mind
Technique #1: Predict the Past
Technique #2: Remember the Future/XYZ method
Technique #3: Hard Empathy
Thinking about your future self & building empathy
Tool: First Person Future Thinking
Envisioning alternative futures
Technique: 100 Ways Anything Could Be Different
Tool: Envision Alternative Futures
Technique: Experiential Future Ladder
Massively multi-player foresight
Simulation game on scenarios
Gaming out surprising consequences
Technique: Future Wheel
Seeing the future from a different point of view
Technique: Positive and Shadow Imagination
Technique: Two Sides to Every Future
Tool: Leading Edge Interviews
Tool: The Four Future Feelings
Creating epic wins
Tool: EthicalOS
Tool: Equitable Futures Card Game
Phase iii: Action
Identifying a preferred future
Technique: Work Backwards from a Preferred Future
Technique: Headlines from the Future
Technique: Images of the Future
Technique: +1 Future Scenario
Technique: Artifacts from the Future
Taking action & committing
Tool: Action Roadmap
Technique: Participatory Futures
Tool: Pledge to Make the Future