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Shaping the Future of Taste: Inside Givaudan’s Foresight Journey
Before the world caught on, Givaudan was already designing the taste experiences of tomorrow. We sit down with Igor Parshin, Customer Foresight Lead at Givaudan to talk about how the company turns early change signals into the flavours that will define the future.
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Why A Broad Horizon Matters in Strategic Foresight
To stay ahead, organisations must widen their lens, exploring not just their own industry but what’s happening on the edges.
The New EU Directive Compels You to Conduct Climate Scenario Analysis
It's more than just a regulatory update; it's a clarion call for companies to embrace climate scenario analysis.
Continuous Strategic Analysis Fosters Long-term Success – in Chess and Business
In business as in chess, creating a winning strategy requires knowledge about not just your situation and the current environment, but also the potential changes ahead. With a continuous strategic analysis process, businesses can map out a clear path to success.
Scenario Analysis: A Powerful Way to Thrive in a Volatile World
Organisations know they need to be agile to succeed in the increasingly uncertain future, but the countless ways things could play out make it too easy to get lost in the woods. Scenario analysis is one of the best methods to address this and thrive.
2x2 Scenario Planning Matrix: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to build plausible, engaging and actionable scenarios with an easy-to-use scenario planning framework.
Trend Cards on Futures Platform and How to Use Them
Curated by our team of futurists, more than 800 trend card features compact, easy-to-digest analyses on future changes. Many of the cards also feature two scenario descriptions that explore alternative future development paths for the trend. Save time on horizon scanning and explore a rich library of trend analyses by leading futurists
Futures Table – A Powerful Scenario Planning Tool
Futures Table is a powerful scenario planning tool that we, at Futures Platform use on a daily basis in our scenario-building work. In this article, we walk you through how to use this tool to build fully-fledged, logical and engaging scenario narratives.
How to Build Scenarios Efficiently with a Scenario Planning Process
When there are no historical analogies to look back to, scenario planning can help us better understand and plan for a multitude of possible futures. In addition to enhancing efficiency, an established scenario planning process will empower organisations to proactively shape the future through strategic decision-making.
Scenarios: Looking for Alternatives
Scenarios help to expand the time horizon, aid in looking beyond the usual extrapolations and improve thinking about the potential unexpected developments. Being descriptions of possible, probable or preferable futures, they help organisations prepare for various contingencies and plan accordingly.
Futures Intelligence: Types of Futures Knowledge
Futures intelligence is a key component of all successful decision making, strategy work or innovation. It provides its users with analytical knowledge about future changes, trends and their potential impacts. This is the first part of our Futures Intelligence blog series.
Strategic Foresight in Education Planning: A Guideline
What will the school curriculums, learning tools and environments of the future look like? With several key drivers of change underway, it may seem a near impossible task for education planners to navigate the uncertainties surrounding the field of education. Strategic foresight can help them future-proof strategies and ensure future generations’ success.
How to factor uncertainty into decision-making?
Uncertainty. A word that needs no introduction this spring. We have all come to terms with it. Some may have even fallen in love with uncertainty! This blog explores what uncertainty is exactly, and how to deal with uncertainty.