FORESIGHT IN GOVERNMENT & POLICYMAKING

Stay informed on long-term societal changes, assess geopolitical shifts, and make forward-looking policies with Futures Platform’s cutting edge foresight tools and services

 

FUTURE-PROOF STRATEGIC PLANNING AND POLICYMAKING

Futures Platform’s foresight database hosts more than 1000 in-depth analyses of future trends, innovations and disruptions across all sectors globally, created by a team of world’s leading futurists. Dozens of new trend cards are added each month, and existing ones updated regularly.

Our rich selection of trends, long-term changes and emerging signals across societies and industries helps governmental organisations to anticipate change and shape prosperous and sustainable futures through proactive policymaking.

Here’s a sneak peek into some of the trends available on Futures Platform:

  • Central Bank Socialism

  • Cyberwarfare

  • Digital Tax

  • E-work Visas and E-residency

  • National Security of Supply

  • New Types of Retirement Plans

  • Privatisation of Cities

  • Social Mobility

  • Tailored Equality

  • Trust in Public Authorities 

Learn more about what a Futures Platform trend card typically contains and see an example card in our blog.

VISUALISE FUTURE CHANGES IN INTERACTIVE FORESIGHT RADARS

Explore interconnections between trends, visualise alternative futures and collaborate with your team using Futures Platform’s interactive foresight radars. With the radars, you can:

  • Access ready-made, futurist-created radar templates on 40+ topics, such as Politics & Policies, Public Governance, Population, Energy, Climate Change and Urbanisation.

  • Explore regional dynamics and understand the key developments emerging from different parts of the world through our location-specific radars on Europe & the Middle East, North & South Americas, Asia-Pacific, Australia and China.

  • Modify the ready-made radars to fit your needs or create your own radar views from scratch

  • Use the built-in voting, rating and commenting tools to collect insights from your team and prioritise the most relevant trends for your organisation’s future

 

Case Studies

Discover how we help our clients in the public sector through our case studies.

 

Co-Shaping the Future of City Living in Bangkok with FutureTales Lab

How to build a sustainable Bangkok where residents can live, work, learn and play in healthy environments? FutureTales Lab used Futures Platform to explore alternative future scenarios and develop innovative solutions to the complex environmental, social, and economic issues facing the future of city living in Bangkok.

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Building Foresight Processes at the Finnish Tax Administration

When the Finnish Tax Administration set out to establish a framework for monitoring change signals, the large size of the organisation and its diverse groups of stakeholders presented challenges to communication. With Futures Platform, they’ve successfully created a shared visual language around future changes.

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Setting up a Foresight Function in a UAE Government Department

With Futures Platform, a government department in UAE devised a roadmap for developing internal foresight capabilities as well as external collaboration networks, where the healthcare professionals of the entire emirate of Abu Dhabi joined forces to build desirable futures.

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“The biggest benefit of using Futures Platform has been allowing the decision-makers to see the ideas that they haven't thought of yet.”

— Joe Kearney
Insight Specialist, Research and Analytics
New Zealand Transport Agency

 
 

OUR FUTURISTS ARE HERE TO HELP YOU

Whether you want to get quick results with our platform, build long-term foresight capability and processes in your organisation, or any other special needs in between, our experienced team of futurists, economists and foresight consultants are here to help and augment your team.

The core aim behind our consulting services is to facilitate your foresight skills development and equip you with the skillset to make future-proof decisions in a rapidly changing world. We provide a broad range of services, from in-depth trend analysis and scenario-building to foresight hackathons, to help you build winning strategies and actively shape the future.

 
 

Want to learn more about how we help our clients in government and public sectors?

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