foresights
The decisions leaders make today are shaped by what they understand about tomorrow. That's precisely why we built foresights—a dedicated space for sharing the ideas, trends, issues, and signals influencing the futures of leaders and their organisations.
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Case Study: The Scenario Creation Process.
You should read this if… you are a CEO, executive or board member who wants a practical, repeatable way to explore uncertainty and strengthen strategy without relying on a single forecast. This article walks through the scenario creation process, showing how teams can systematically explore and analyse multiple plausible futures to test assumptions, surface risks and opportunities, and build more resilient strategies. It demonstrates how well‑constructed scenarios expand thinking, support better conversations at the leadership level, and equip organisations to navigate complexity by preparing for a range of futures rather than betting on one expected outcome.
Case Study: How Scenario Planning Transformed a Council’s Operations Plan Review.
You should read this if… you are a leaders partway through a strategy cycle and want to pressure‑test your current operations plan against a rapidly changing future. This case study shows how scenario planning can be used mid‑strategy to pause, reflect, and recalibrate—helping leadership teams look beyond short‑term delivery and examine how emerging uncertainties and long‑term forces could affect today’s priorities. It demonstrates how using scenarios to review an operations plan surfaces hidden assumptions, strengthens alignment, and ensures near‑term actions remain robust and relevant across a range of plausible futures rather than being locked into a single, increasingly fragile view of what lies ahead.
Case Study: Building Scenarios to Expand Thinking.
You should read this if… you are a leader in business who wants to challenge entrenched assumptions and help leadership teams think beyond “business as usual.” This case study shows how building scenarios can be used as a practical foresight technique to expand strategic thinking, using structured exploration of trends and uncertainties to surface alternative ways the future might unfold. It demonstrates how scenario building helps leaders broaden perspectives, test beliefs, and prepare for future challenges with greater agility—shifting strategy conversations from predicting one outcome to learning how to navigate multiple plausible futures with confidence.
Case Study: How to Engage & Educate with Design Fiction.
You should read this if… you are a CEO or executive looking for a powerful way to engage and educate stakeholders about uncertain futures without relying on abstract reports or technical jargon. This case study shows how design fiction can be used to bring future possibilities to life through storytelling, visual artefacts, and speculative narratives that make complex change tangible and discussable. It demonstrates how design fiction helps organisations spark meaningful conversations, shift mindsets, and invite collaboration by creating a safe space to explore how emerging technologies and trends could shape their sector—enabling stakeholders to actively participate in imagining and shaping what might happen next
Case Study: How to Review Your Strategy with Foresight.
You should read this if… you are a CEO, executive or board member who wants to pressure‑test your current strategy against a changing world rather than assume it will remain valid. This case study shows how reviewing strategy through a foresight lens helps leaders step back from short‑term assumptions, surface emerging external forces, and ask how the organisation itself may need to change as markets, technology, and customer expectations evolve. It demonstrates how structured foresight processes—such as trend analysis, leadership engagement, and scenario exploration—can unlock clearer conversations, stronger alignment, and more resilient strategic choices that are better suited to uncertainty and long‑term growth.