IN SPOTLIGHT
What is Futures Intelligence? A Complete Guide
Futures Intelligence is an integrative capability that brings different forms of future-related insights in one connected sense-making flow to turn them into shared, decision-ready understanding. It brings together different types of future-focused knowledge. Used in isolation, each has blind spots. Used together, they build a comprehensive picture of the possible futures ahead.
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The future of global security hinges on societal resilience
Defence debates tend to focus on firepower. But the most destabilising risks may come from something far harder to quantify: the fraying of social trust, the manipulation of truth, and the erosion of the middle class.
The Future of Tax in the Metaverse
Through a series of workshops with three national tax authorities, we explored the key opportunities and risks the metaverse presents to the future of taxation.
Counterfeiting: A Growing Threat to the Future of Global Trade
With the steep rise in volumes of counterfeit consumer goods entering the global marketplace, brands, retailers, and governments are facing new challenges.
Public Trust in Government: One More Covid-19 Casualty
Poor institutional performance, slow response to the global agenda, and increasing economic inequalities are among the main drivers causing a global decline in trust in public authorities and political leaders.
Foresight in Government: How to Build In-House Foresight Capabilities in Public Organizations
Compared to one-off projects, building internal foresight capacities helps institutions place foresight at the very core of the organizational culture.
Joint Corona Fight
In the fight against the Coronavirus outbreak, Big Tech and corporations are joining forces to take the lead, whereas the role of national authorities has dwindled.
City States – The Wave of the Future?
Nowadays, we have Singapore, Monaco, and the Vatican as the modern independent city-states; whereas cities such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Dubai are autonomous cities - independently functioning with their own governments but are still part of larger nations.