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For foresight teams

Horizon scanning you can defend, and a way to build the practice inside your own organization.
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Where things get stuck

Foresight teams are asked to shape enterprise decisions while sitting outside the budget, roadmap, and governance cycles where those decisions get made.

These are the three blockers that come up in almost every conversation we have with foresight teams.

  • Pattern 01

    Scanning is manual and uneven, which makes it hard to defend when an operational stakeholder pushes back.

  • Pattern 02

    What you find rarely connects to a specific decision about investment, capability, or sequencing.

  • Pattern 03

    Future literacy varies wildly across the organization, so the same output lands with one team and bounces off another.

What you get

What foresight teams typically end up with.
  • Result 01

    Make horizon scanning a repeatable workflow, with evidence anyone can trace back to a source.

  • Result 02

    Connect what you find to roadmap choices and portfolio bets, in the language those owners already use.

  • Result 03

    Raise the level of the conversation across leadership and delivery teams, with outputs people can read at a glance.

Build capability

Foresight work lands harder when the team can build the thing it is describing. Build Sessions take non-technical teams from idea to working prototype in an afternoon, with a straight answer on where the tools still fall over.
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Where to start

How foresight teams usually work with us.

Foresight teams usually start with Signals Session, €4,500 per session.

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Relevant use cases

The situations foresight teams bring us most often, with the client work behind each one.

Strategic horizon scan

Teams use the platform to get past manual desk research and test what they already assume about the future, early enough to change course.

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Related impact cases

The Future of Energy for Utilities

A joint initiative with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to identify and analyze emerging energy technologies that are driving innovation within the utility sector.

2024
Exploring the Future of Human and Planetary Security

Navigate the key forces and emerging issues shaping the future of global security.

2023

Technology roadmapping

Strategy and innovation teams use the Signals Session, Signals, and radar views to structure technology bets, sequence investments, and align stakeholders around a shared execution path that remains reusable over time.

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Related impact cases

Multiple Visualizations of Emerging Tech in a Multi-year Collaboration

A 5 year long research partnership with armasuisse, through DEFTECH (Defense Future Technologies), exploring the impact of emerging technologies with several open-source radar installations.

2015
Charting the Energy Transition

In partnership with IEEE, we turned the PES Technical Roadmap into a comparative foresight tool their teams use internally, to weigh decisions about the energy transition toward net zero by 2050.

2026