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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.
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Future TrendsSeptember 29, 2020
From Pink vs Blue to Gender-Neutral Design
Is the future of design and advertising genderless?
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Foresight Best PracticesSeptember 16, 2020
The Importance of Cross-Industry Conversations in Continuous Foresight
Neither disruption nor innovation rarely ever comes from within one’s own industry. While monitoring changes in one’s own industry may help them stay afloat, the organisations that lead the change are those who keep a cross-industry pulse on emerging weak signals.
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Foresight Best PracticesSeptember 15, 2020
Practicing Foresight in Government: How to Build In-House Foresight Capabilities in Public Organizations
With public institutions operating in increasingly challenging contexts, being future-fit in today’s environment requires an increasing amount of resources.
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Future TrendsAugust 20, 2020
How We Will Eat in the Future
Are personalised food prescriptions becoming a healthy reality of the future?
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Foresight Best PracticesAugust 12, 2020
Why a Government Foresight Program is Crucial for Future-Centred Policymaking
With the speed of changes the world is facing today, there is a growing urgency for governments to invest in a collaborative, systematic approach to prepare for the future.
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Foresight Best PracticesAugust 6, 2020
Strategic Foresight in Education Planning: A Guideline
This guideline will provide you some ideas on how you can introduce strategic foresight in classrooms or in strategic planning for educational institutions.
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Foresight Best PracticesJuly 30, 2020
3 Ways Strategic Foresight in Education Help Prepare Students for Future Changes
How can education anticipate and adapt to the needs of a constantly changing, increasingly unpredictable world?
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Future TrendsJuly 14, 2020
China, the USA and Oil – A Potential Geopolitical Scenario
The rise of China, the unrests in the US and the low price of oil may all contribute towards significant geopolitical changes in Eurasia.
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Future TrendsJune 22, 2020
Dress Digital to Impress
Imagine that you can buy designer clothes as cheap as £15 per item. But on one condition, they are for social media only.