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For strategy teams

Turn early signals into options you can put in front of a board, with the timing and the risk spelled out.
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Where things get stuck

Strategy teams carry accountability for decisions years out, usually working from research that was accurate the quarter it was commissioned.

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

  • Pattern 01

    By the time annual planning concludes, the market assumptions underneath it are months old.

  • Pattern 02

    You can see the weak signals. Turning them into options with explicit tradeoffs is the part that does not happen.

  • Pattern 03

    Board discussions go long on narrative and short on evidence, because nobody can pin down timing or feasibility.

What you get

What strategy teams typically end up with.
  • Result 01

    Keep a live view of what is changing outside, instead of refreshing it once a year.

  • Result 02

    Bring options to the board with timing, risk, and capital implications already attached.

  • Result 03

    Tie long-term roadmaps to shifts you can actually point at, in technology maturity and market movement.

Build capability

Strategy teams that can build stop arguing about whether something is feasible and put a rough version on screen instead. Build Sessions take non-technical teams from idea to working prototype in a single afternoon.
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Where to start

How strategy teams usually work with us.

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

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Relevant use cases

The situations strategy 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