FUTURE HORIZON
The FUTURE mentality is developed from a good demystification of what the future is followed by learning the appropriate use of methods and tools for prospecting and analyzing futures.
You can delay, but your future won’t.
Introduction
FUTURE HORIZON focuses on how we prepare for the uncertainties of the future and how we prepare for and build a future. This program is aimed at organizations interested in introducing or implementing a futures literacy and foresight program. This is the Horizon 3 of our SIGMA approach, should the client organization become interested in it at a later date.
Since this horizon focuses on foresight or prospecting futures, it is ideally participatory in order to collect and share a larger number of alternative futures. It therefore requires a minimum number of participants (4-5), in the absence of which, public workshops would be made available..
Objectives
The practice of foresight has two broad, specific objectives: (1) the anticipation of alternative futures and scenarios (2) the creation of a preferred future.
Foresight or prospective practice allows to:
- Develop prospective in your organization
- Detect trends and weak signals
- Anticipate future risks and opportunities
- Make scenarios, Analyze impacts
- Widen the organization’s horizons
For who?
Foresight can and should be practiced by all organizations small or large, private or public.
- Senior management and directors
- Middle managers and those responsible for innovation, strategy and risk management.
- Teams and people needed for a participatory prospective project.
How we deliver
The foresight seminar is typically delivered in 2-day private or public workshops.
The workshops like signal detection & scenario articulation and analysis workshops can involve various participations over one or half-day meetings.
Deliverables
The foresight playbook
Our unique approach allows participants to build their prospective book as the theory and other information is delivered by simply going through and inputting their information and discovery at each step of the proposed foresight process.
Advantages
The practice of foresight allows an organization to develop proactivity and agility and the vision necessary to emerge from uncertainty through anticipation and the clarity of a preferred future. Foresight also allows :
- A timely and ongoing program to monitor changes and adapt in a timely manner
- An early detection system
- A vision of change beyond uncertainty and disruption
- Innovations and new business opportunities
- A competitive lead, a competitive advantage
- An idea of the new customer, the new competition
- New capabilities
Related activities
The practice of foresight will highlight, among other things, risks and opportunities, which will enrich risk and continuity management efforts. Foresight monitoring ensures the vigilance necessary for better management of these risks, opportunities, and continuity.
Related readings
You can read about the following topics on our |Articles| page:
- Foresight, its advantages
- Future readiness