We sit down with Mika Ilari Koskinen, the lead designer behind Synapse, Futures Platform’s new agentic AI workspace for Futures Intelligence, to talk design philosophy: the choices that shaped the product, and why good design helps people cope with uncertainty. First in a series taking you behind the scenes of building Synapse.

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.

It's more than just a regulatory update; it's a clarion call for companies to embrace climate scenario analysis.

How can AI enhance - and perhaps disrupt - the landscape of foresight work in the years and decades ahead?

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.

Learn how to build plausible, engaging and actionable scenarios with an easy-to-use scenario planning framework.

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 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.

Much of what we can know about the future at the present moment is based on the directions and interactions of megatrends, trends and change drivers.

Even though much of the world has stood still in lockdowns, the geopolitical events have kept developing. The world is realigning itself, and the new order could be quite different from the one preceding it.

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.

What do the futures of work look like? Jerome C. Glenn from the Millennium Project shares 3 alternative future of work scenarios in 2050. How well can we anticipate both the incremental and more rapid consequences of transformation?