How We Work
Collaborative and actionable
We work in direct collaboration with clients, members and global expert panels. We have systematised our co-creation processes in a way that makes the results relevant and easy to turn into practical action plans.
Harvesting internal and external knowledge
Continuous horizon scanning of trends, developments and disruptions enables us to stay on top of global change. We engage thought leaders in our research and tap into the collective wisdom of the organisations we work with.
Building a common understanding
Our process facilitates stakeholder engagement and collective sense-making. We strive towards shared future visions to support strategic resilience and decision making, as well as strengthen awareness across the organisation and its external stakeholders and customers.
Our Approach
Megatrends
Megatrends are long-term trends that influence societies globally. They are tectonic plates moving underneath our societies, which slowly but surely shape and affect most things around us. Our mantra is ‘you can’t hide from a megatrend’. When developing a solid and successful strategy or scenario process, it is essential to identify the megatrends influencing the future of your particular organisation and to be prepared for their effects.
Scenarios
With scenario planning, we map the possible and plausible futures that your organisation should be prepared to navigate. We anchor our approach in the core uncertainties facing your organisation. Scenarios are vivid narratives capturing the development of key aspects across the PESTE framework encompassing Politics, Economics, Society, Technology and Environment. Together, they outline your future contextual environment and create the foundation for strategy development and the opportunity to actively influence the future. The key here is the notion that ‘you can plan for some things most of the time, but you can not plan for everything all the time’. Scenarios enable you to focus your efforts on the drivers which are key to your business.
Our Services
Strategy
Strategic development is a matter of influencing your organisation's future in the desired direction. Your strategy should build on a thorough analysis that provides a holistic perspective on your organisation's future contextual environment, and not least which uncertainties to focus on and work with. Our approach provides tools to develop or future-proof your strategy and tell implicit assumptions from critical uncertainties.
Risk
Anchored in megatrend analysis, we help in marrying short term operational and business risk management with long term strategic risks, as both are detrimental to an organisation’s survival and longevity. Societal development patterns and megatrends are in themselves neither positive nor negative, but when interpreted into your concrete organisational reality they may have major effects. We will help you with tools and methods to assess these risks and recognise the challenges and opportunities that arise from them on the emerging horizon. Additionally, we can support in development key leading indicators, enabling you to track the developments in identified critical risks.
Innovation
Innovation is the key to long-term competitiveness in the global markets and works best in close connection with long-term thinking, strategy, and scenarios. Innovation happens today but is intended for a future consumer or need. Expectations about the future are central guideposts when we help organisations to discover new concepts and further develop innovation processes.
