# Use cases | Envisioning

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# Use cases by audience

How organizations use Signals in strategy, innovation, policy, and transformation.

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## Find your role

Pick your role and see how we help, with outcomes and examples that fit.

For Innovation Teams

Test more opportunities and scale the ones that prove useful.

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For Strategy Teams

Turn changing conditions into choices the organization can act on.

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For Consultants

Sense more of the environment and spend your time on interpretation.

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For Associations

Help members build a shared view of what is changing.

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For Foresight

Make sensing and sensemaking part of the decisions you support.

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For Governments

Coordinate evidence across agencies when a decision has consequences.

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For L&D Teams

Turn AI awareness into a team learning practice.

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## [Policy impact assessment](?function=public-policies#policy-impact-assessment)

ForGovernments

Linking technological developments to specific regulatory goals, climate targets, or development mandates.

Government bodies and NGOs use the platform to assess how emerging technologies impact specific goals (e.g. NDCs, SDGs), so the evidence is there when a decision has to be justified.

-   Understand regional applicability, economic feasibility, and social acceptance of technologies.
-   Enable evidence-based policy dialogue and equipment or program acquisition decisions.

### Related case studies

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

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Scanning the Green Transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Foresight radars for UNDP's five-year Green Transition programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina, surfacing citation-backed signals of change across decarbonisation, circularity and environmental justice to feed directly into portfolio reviews and programming decisions.

2025

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Futures Intelligence: Strategic Foresight Collaboration with UNDP Ukraine

Developing a foresight radar in collaboration with UNDP Ukraine to track critical signals of change impacting the region.

2023

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Visualizing Public Policy Priorities across a Growing Ecosystem

An internal Public Policy Radar for RCU, running on their own infrastructure, where teams can track and compare policy initiatives across a fast-growing ecosystem.

2025

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Assistive Technologies Research and Visualization for WIPO

A collaborative project with WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, to map out and visualize the landscape of Assistive Technologies and their corresponding patents.

2021

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Expanding the Technology Radar to an Impact Portal

Analyzing the impact of emerging technologies on sustainable development for GIZ, Germany’s leading development agency.

2019

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Innovating for the Future of Food with the WFP

A technology radar for the World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator, mapping food and agriculture technologies against the goals the programme is measured on.

2016

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Metascan of Technology Trends for Policy Horizons Canada

Conducting a comprehensive scan of technology trends across key sectors for federal policy-making.

2015

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## Why visualization matters

Understand why intelligence format drives adoption, reuse, and action across leadership and delivery teams.

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