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Our PurposeHelp you to identify and manage change and

achieve strategic agility, organizational resilience, innovation and risk mitigation

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Today:Strategic thinking is complex, messy, costly,

time-consuming, requires considerable knowledge and expertise which is in no one place

Similarly, education in strategic thinkingStrategic thinking is mostly in the hands of

experts (Hedgehogs1) and they in turn are constrained by the same issues above

Consequently, only a few organizations are wold-class in strategic thinking and most people make decisions based on past experiences and partial knowledge without the complete picture

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Tomorrow:As the pace of change accelerates

organizations need a simpler, faster way to do strategic thinking, to respond just-in-time and to become agile and resilient in ever more uncertain times

Education in strategic thinking needs to be immediate and knowledge of what we all can see of the future, near-instant, to drive competitive advantage and shape better tomorrows

Strategic thinking needs to be in the hands of non-experts (Foxes1) too, to speed up decision-making, get most organizations in the world to best and next practice and help more people become forward-thinking in their outlook and actions

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“We are here to help you make better decisions today, faster and cheaper than ever before through strategic foresight”

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By kind permission of John M. Schutte

We endeavor to provide this complete system, digitally, to our members and clients

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The world is morphing fast:Low economic growthIncreasing uncertaintyAccelerating changeIncreasing complexityDigitalizationMore chance of surprise

Organizations refocusing on:Improving efficiencyAgilityStabilityCapabilityRisk mitigationDeveloping alternative scenariosInnovation that create better futures for all

ANDChanging their story accordingly and quickly

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Scan the horizon for emerging intelligencePlan your organization’s anticipatory strategyAct on your decisions at the best timeNetwork and share emerging challengesLearn how to be more resilient to changeAsk us to research your future opportunities and risksPrivatize your own content and thinking and own-brand this site


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DATA

INFORMATION

KNOWLEDGE

WISDOMPA

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Insights/Raw evidence

Forecasts/Indicators

Context/Answers*

Tools/Your responses

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What must be done?

What could be done?

What is predicted?

What is reported?

Our ProcessStrategic Foresight

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramidSources


* Athena now gathers the Data and extracts verbatim Information instantly. She is now beginning to offer Knowledge on what could be done by finding Answers to extracted questions on the Web.

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Keep abreast of market developments and stay steps ahead of your competition in real-time.Spot fresh opportunities for innovation and growthMitigate emerging risksImprove confidence in your actions and reduce uncertainty through collaborationBe smarter, agile and resilient through taking a systemic and forward-looking approach to your decision-making and subsequent actions


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Managing change is a process that can be systematized

Increasing strategic foresight capability is the first step in systematic change management

Having strategic foresight increases future opportunity and reduces emerging risk

Begin by identifying and monitoring change going on in the world around you, then critique the implications, imagine future differences, envision your preferred future and plan and act on what you now know

“Foresight is an art not a science that requires much practice” [D. Loveridge]

but,

“Practice means you can turn vicious issues into long-term virtual cycles of success” [M. Jackson]


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Our aim is to help you continuously anticipate how we will live andbetter prepare for emerging global opportunities and risks.

What you’ll find here to help you do a great job:

PROFILE: keep your profile up-to-date and let us help youGUIDE: learn how to get the best out of the serviceFORECASTS: get instant, prospective on the futureCHALLENGES: view your chosen interest topic reportsREPORTS: create and publish customized reportsDECISIONS: manage your innovation and threat pipelineMEMBERS: learn from other future interested peopleASK ATHENA: ask our robot for help


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Sources~200,000+

auto produced forecasts

& scenarios

8-15 vital few

Decisions

Members Groups

OrganizationsKeywordsPunditsExperts

StoryRespondVisualizeFilter

Act NowNot yetWatchForgetCompleted

Making better decisions today

8000+

ST’s black box system

AI Tools


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Please help us to help you by keeping your profile, email subscriptions, interests and style up-to-dateYou will benefit by allowing other members to contact you and we will be able to tailor our service to your needsWe respect and protect your privacyPersonal information about you is not disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permissionBy contributing to our service you can increase your personal standing and

competence within our community and help shape tomorrow for the benefit of all

First things first

A little time spent polishing your profile will pay bigdividends here


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If you are new here or need a refresher our guide will lead you through how to get the best out of this service. If you still can’t find what you need then Ask Athena: your digital assistant, personal coach and online educator.


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The system finds instant and automatic future ‘Forecasts' about probable, possible and potential future world conditions.

You need merely Add Sources and Athena, our robot, will do the rest,

You can then develop the likely future ‘Story’ of your chosen topic in text and spreadsheet form and:Respond to the forecasts by develop your

strategies in real-time through our foresighting methodsVisualize and aggregate analysis of your

chosen topic‘Filter’ your search term to achieve more

precise resultsall from one single web page.

Get instant, extracted prospective on your interest topics

With this system, members can develop their strategicresponses, create professional foresight reports and presentations in less than half a day on any topic of theirchoice compared with many days or weeks fromtraditional methods


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Get an instant Summary of the most recent key forecastsView the detailed Narrative and quickly produce themed reports, PowerPoints or audio files on your interest topicDo the same in Chronological order by yearChallenge your thinking with future Questions and get Ideas on how to answer them through others efforts.Export the full forecast spreadsheet in Excel format


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Search for a topic of interest to you and then click the ‘Respond’

button to add a project on the subject. A spreadsheet of your

selected items will also begin downloading automatically. Save

your project, setting the Decision field based on your initial

thoughts as to its importance and urgency. Now, click ‘All Projects’,

select your project title and then a method(s) that best complete

your project

The methods are laid out in logical sequence for completing a full

strategic foresight project in just a few hours or a couple of days

We recommend you begin with selecting the ‘Prioritize’ methods and then select Add Options reading the instructions to complete a

strategic foresight project in just a few hours

All methods can be used by you alone or in collaboration with

associates either face-to-t0 face or remotely

Click the method's title for a detailed description of its benefits, use, disadvantages and how to get the best out of the method

You can use the methods in isolation or in sequence to fit your needs

Develop your thinking on future questions important to you


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Picture the future with:Trend linesSentiment analysisMetricsWord cloudsTopic mapsHeat mapsFour-dimensional, dynamic graphs


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Refine your search to your specific needsView the underlying Insights from which the Forecasts were drawnClick Tags to find your bookmarked material or view which words are most used in your interest topic


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Keep abreast of your own emerging challenges:

United Nations global goals that will affect youG20 Watch for emerging issues likely to impact youYour own pre-selected interest topicsYour own pre-selected benchmark organizations Our suggestions as to the key organizations to learn

fromOur curated list of current management questions

you should know the answer to.If you are a client, you can set up your own, private,

automated, summary reports on topics of your choiceThat means that once your Sources are established

and your Challenges defined that your scanning will be automatic, near to real-time and require very little human intervention other than deciding your strategic responses


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Add, view and publish customized reportsRead our latest Trend AlertsCheck how global Sentiment is changingView Tags added by you, the robot and other membersPeruse our latest NewslettersCheck for upcoming meetings of interest to you


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Use the ‘Decisions’ button to determine where a project fits in your pipeline:

- Act now!: do this immediately - Not yet: manage until ready - Watch: keep under review - Forget: reject - Completed: implemented solution

Your decision(s) will appear in the left-hand navigation barOnce you have made some decisions you can move your decisions up and down the pipeline.

Manage your projects


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Here you can:Find futurists and ask for their advice, hire them, listen to, learn and help each other anticipate change Find new opportunities to collaborate and co-create the future in public or in private

‘Add’ to your profile to maximize your membership benefits by: - editing your basic information - adding your interests so we can tailor our service to you - describing your career for other members to find you for their projects

- evaluating your style – worldview and cognitive reasoning

View ‘All’ visible members, email them and see their interestsDialog with others, critique and or add views in the ‘Forums’Join and or view All Groups (Groups allow their members to work

with our content directly (Social media networks like LinkedIn don’t)The Groups capability allows you to ‘Tag’, ‘Report’, ‘Share’ and add Forecasts and Insights as evidence etc.

Determine how you will respond


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You can choose to:

Work in public: ‘All’* - any first page is free

Work on your own privately: ‘My’ and pay to see more pages and open content*

Work with associates privately or publicly and have access to all open content: ‘Our’**

* Pay-as-you-go for single, occasional access licenses

** Annual subscription fee for multiple, private licenses with own look and feel and your logo


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Each week either our robot, Athena, creates a short Trend Alert on a key emerging issue that is sent to our ~10,000 membersYou can also ask us for a customized, Trend Alert or in-depth GIST report on any other topic of interest to youUse these as fire-starters with your executives and managers to get their juices flowing on how these might affect your organization and what to do nextYou can use our Questioning methods to prompt their responsesIf you are a client you will need a second email address to receive these and access your own private site


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Contact us, if you want your own private or partner site giving you the following:

Own logo – Own look and feel – Private contentMulti-team licensesRead only facility availableChoice of blank content site, selected or full

member content

Or, foresight, strategy and change management advice, futures research, reports, talks, newsfeeds, research, surveys, coaching & training, and stakeholder inspiration, engagement or enablement


MULTILINGUALWe now offer multilingual forecast extraction to clients on a country by country basis

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Begin exploring the serviceConsult the other detailed help ‘GUIDES’ hereLearn how to get ahead of rivalsContact us if you have any difficulties or would

like up to 40 minutes free, online training

We are here to help. Feel free to contact us+44 (0) 1273 [email protected]: shapingtomorrowAsk Athena

“We are here to help you makebetter strategy decisions today, faster.better and cheaper than ever before”
