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Foresight Best PracticesMarch 30, 2021
How to Bring Foresight into Action with Foresight Deliverables
There are three key elements to the effective delivery of foresight results - context, continuity and engaging communication.
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Future TrendsMarch 23, 2021
The Rise of Virtual Status Symbols: Blockchain, Digital Art and NFTs
As we spend more and more time in the virtual realm, the notions of luxury and status symbols begin to manifest themselves in novel ways.
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Foresight Best PracticesMarch 16, 2021
Building Foresight in the Finnish Tax Administration: Case Study
With the right tools and support networks, large organisations can easily integrate foresight into their processes.
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Scenarios, scenario planningMarch 9, 2021
How to Build Scenarios Efficiently with a Scenario Planning Process
Scenario planning is a versatile foresight tool that boosts agility and creates space for innovation. With a scenario planning process, teams can easily make scenario planning an integral part of their strategy work.
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Future TrendsMarch 2, 2021
Meet Generation Alpha: Future Consumers Reshaping Markets
Accommodating Alphas’ needs will require an overhaul of several industries ranging from education to work, entertainment and service design.
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Future TrendsFebruary 16, 2021
Future of Truth in the Information Age?
As rapid technological and societal shifts redefine how we access information and experience reality, the future may have new implications for finding facts and making sense of them collectively.
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Foresight Best PracticesFebruary 8, 2021
Wild Cards and Science Fiction: Free Imagination
Wild cards and science fiction are key foresight components that enrich our imagination and understanding of possible futures. By studying them, you can increase your future preparedness.
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Foresight Best PracticesJanuary 27, 2021
Horizon Scanning and Vigilance Concerning Changes: Discontinuities, Emerging Issues and Weak Signals
Horizon scanning is the phase of gathering future-related knowledge, which is the first stage of the larger foresight process. It is about being vigilant concerning the changes in one’s environment. The main focus in this category of Futures intelligence is on discontinuities, emerging issues, and weak signals of change.
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Future TrendsJanuary 19, 2021
What’s next for capitalism? The forces shaping future economic systems in the 2020s
Increasing urgency of the climate crisis, widening economic inequalities, and the Covid-19 pandemic may together push the future of capitalism towards new directions.
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Foresight Best PracticesJanuary 12, 2021
Scenarios: Looking for Alternatives
Scenarios assist in identifying and exploring alternative futures. During scenario building, information about different versions of the future, the present and its change drivers are produced, analysed and built into foresight insights.
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Foresight Best PracticesJanuary 5, 2021
Understanding the Larger Picture and Path-dependencies: Megatrends, Trends and Change Drivers
Megatrends, trends and change drivers are the staple of any foresight work. Analysing them is the key to understanding future developments.
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Future TrendsDecember 8, 2020
Can We Embrace an “Offline” Future After COVID-19?
Will digital detox become mainstream to safeguard our mental health?
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Foresight Best PracticesDecember 8, 2020
Futures Intelligence: Types of Futures Knowledge
Futures intelligence is future-related knowledge that can inform your decision-making, planning, strategy and innovation processes about the coming changes, challenges and opportunities.
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Foresight Best PracticesDecember 1, 2020
3 Foresight Methods Organisations Can Utilise to Navigate Post-Election Uncertainties
With versatile use cases, foresight tools can help organisations figure out what the US election outcome means for their operational environment and what they can do to prepare.
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Future TrendsNovember 24, 2020
Loss of Privacy in the Digital Era – Trust is the Future Capital for Organisations
How data transparency and cybersecurity can help to achieve a competitive edge.
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Future TrendsNovember 18, 2020
4 Trends Affected by the 2020 US Elections and How Organisations Can Prepare for the Anticipated Shifts
Ranging from COVID-19 to global trade, climate policies and societal structures, the election outcome will influence the future operational landscapes in many industries.
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Foresight Best PracticesOctober 27, 2020
Cybersecurity Spending – Three Scenarios with Trend Impact Analysis
What are the events that may influence the extrapolated cybersecurity spending trend in the future? We know that spending will increase – but how much?
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Future TrendsOctober 20, 2020
How Circular Economy Helps To Tackle The E-Waste Crisis
“Right to repair” initiative and material revolutions could radically reshape the design of electronic products.
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Foresight Best PracticesOctober 13, 2020
Is it just a hype or a real trend?
Dr. Tuomo Kuosa goes into detail about how Futures Platform's futurists differentiate a trend from a hype.
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Foresight Best PracticesSeptember 30, 2020
Just hype or a real trend? - Live sessions with Futurists
Distinguishing between the two can be crucial to organisations’ survival.