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.

Population growth rates are stagnating in many countries around the world, but the economics of a declining population is still uncharted territory for modern economic theory. How will our growth-based economic systems fare when the population declines?

Futures Platform, an all-in-one collaborative digital solution for strategic foresight work, is thrilled to announce that the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has accepted us as a service supplier on their G-Cloud 13 Digital Marketplace.

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.

It may seem like there’s more technological innovation than ever today, but more innovation doesn’t necessarily mean more economic growth.

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.

With the steep rise in volumes of counterfeit consumer goods entering the global marketplace, brands, retailers, and governments are facing new challenges.

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

The war in Ukraine has brought major disruption and new uncertainties to several sectors. To help organisations successfully navigate the constantly evolving environment ahead, Futures Platform’s team of futurists has outlined four different scenarios on how the war may evolve within the next five years.

Europe spent years negotiating, innovating and planning to solve its net-zero energy policy puzzle by 2050. Will Russia’s war on Ukraine reshape the future of energy in the continent?

What if the most interesting ideas are waiting to be unearthed amidst preposterous future scenarios that seem far-fetched, impossible or even ridiculous?

Will artificial intelligence bring an end to the traditional labour market? Fears of mass technological unemployment have a powerful impact on economical policies, but modern economic theory suggests that these fears might be misplaced.