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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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Risk Management: It pays to spend time dwelling on the dark side
Is your organisation prepared for any risk, whether large or small, imminent or eventual, avoidable or not? The time and effort put into “exploring the dark side” and developing a solid risk management framework will pay off, making your organisation well-equipped to navigate an uncertain future.
Building Foresight Capabilities: Introducing Futures Platform’s Foresight Maturity Model
Developed based on our strategic foresight consulting experience and academic research, the Foresight Maturity Model is a framework we use to assess where an organisation’s foresight capabilities currently are and how to develop them further.
Everyone has ideas, but innovation management is what turns them into growth
Today’s businesses face mounting pressure to keep innovating in order to grow and outpace the competition. Innovation management is crucial to ensure that the great minds within your organisation bring forth their ideas, the viable ones are identified, and the ones put to practice are in line with your strategy.
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.
From Trendspotting to Trendsetting: How Trend Analysis Can Help Your Organisation Shape the Future
Knowing ‘what’s next’ in future trends and megatrends is essential to be able to act on influential changes at the right time. With trend analysis, organisations can position themselves as leaders and build adaptability and resilience against future challenges.
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.
How to work with 'unknown futures' to inspire disruptive innovations
What if the most interesting ideas are waiting to be unearthed amidst preposterous future scenarios that seem far-fetched, impossible or even ridiculous?
How to Kickstart a Continuous Foresight Process with Beginner-Friendly Workshops
Are you at the beginning of your foresight journey and looking for a way to get your team excited about foresight work? Learn how to organise and facilitate easy-going, engaging foresight sessions with this step-by-step guide.
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.
The Southwest Finland Foresight Academy’s collaborative approach to foresight
The Southwest Finland Foresight Academy has a unique foresight academy model and a collaboration network that operates across professions and industries to forecast future educational needs and boost regional competence.