The insight & foresight Futures Thinking Engagement Framework is a powerful tool designed to help organisations build futures thinking capability. The framework consists of 5 key components: Signals, Sense-making, Scenarios, Situations, and Souvenirs. It also includes 2 essential enablers: Sparring and Spaces.

Maree Conway's paper, "Strategic Thinking: what it is and how to do it," highlights the importance of strategic thinking in creating effective strategies for organisations. It differentiates strategic thinking (imagining and understanding future possibilities) from strategic planning (documenting actions to implement a strategy).

Explore Sohail Inayatullah's "Six Pillars: Futures Thinking for Transforming," a framework for shaping futures through mapping, anticipation, and creating alternatives.

Explore how the generic foresight process framework developed by Joseph Voros clarifies strategic processes, enhances strategy development, and expands exploration of future opportunities.

Explore five core methods of futures thinking with insight & foresight's Icons of Futures Thinking: Futures Triangle, Two x Two Matrix, Three Horizons, Four Archetypes, and the Futures Wheel. Learn how these approaches can help navigate and redefine our rapidly transforming world.

STEEP analysis evaluates Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Political factors impacting businesses. Essential for horizon scanning, it helps anticipate changes and make long-term decisions with more confidence and greater reliability.

Businesses need to be aware of both risk and uncertainty when making decisions. By understanding the difference between the two, you can be better prepared to deal with whatever comes your way.

There is no one-size-fits-all formula for business growth. But there are certain principles that all successful business leaders follow. At insight & foresight we believe that successful growth plans are underpinned by 6 core principles.

Backcasting is a powerful tool that can be used to manage change and uncertainty. It can help us to identify the steps we need to take to get from where we are now to where we want to be. If you’re facing a complex challenge, backcasting could be the answer.

Foresight is a critical business tool for today because it helps organisations to identify potential future opportunities and threats, adapt to rapidly changing and uncertain environments, and make better decisions. Foresight can help leaders understand the potential implications of deep changes in their industry or market, and enable them to maximise first-mover advantages.

There is no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to using strategic foresight in your business. The key is to experiment, find what works for you, and adapt as needed.

You can use the process of identifying Black Elephants, Swans and Jellyfish in your planning to drive new thinking, support diverse plans, build responsive systems and stretch your planning paradigms into longer time horizons.

The Futures Triangle is a tool developed by Dr Sohail Inayatullah in 2008 that not-for-profit CEOs and Boards can use to create a frame from within which to view the current forces at work on their organisation's planning and decision making for impact and future growth. It's a great place to start a foresight project as it can bring to life the different forces at play.

Discover why you should use foresight in your planning and decision making for impact and future growth.

A critical question that we must get used to dealing with is how we produce plans, make decisions and grow our organisations in the face of futures full of …