PUBLICATIONS

Ebooks, industry reports and foresight case studies by Futures Platform’s team of futurists

EBOOK

A Step-by-Step Guide to Scenario Planning

Learn how to build compelling scenarios and transform them into future-proof strategies. Expertly guided by proven methodology and meticulously broken down into simple, actionable steps.

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EBOOK

Futures Intelligence: How to Turn Foresight into Action

Discover a versatile set of foresight methods ranging from scenario planning to sci-fi prototyping, and learn how they can be applied to strategy, innovation and risk management processes with this practical guide to Futures Intelligence.

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Key Success Factors of a Foresight Program

BUILD A SUCCESSFUL FORESIGHT PROCESS IN YOUR ORGANISATION

Through extensive experience in developing foresight capabilities in large enterprises, organisations, and businesses across various industries worldwide, our foresight experts have formulated a winning framework for strategists, foresight and management teams to build successful strategic foresight programs.

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CASE STUDIES

To date, 10,000+ users and hundreds of organisations across the globe have taken advantage of Futures Platform's powerful content and tools. We’ve also led hundreds of consulting projects with our clients, matching the strictest expertise requirements. The need for systematic foresight is equal to public and private organisations.

Here, you can find our collection of case studies of a few brilliant organisations that are making themselves even more vigilant and future-proof with the help of our solution and services.

  • FORESIGHT IN A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT

    When Dr. Yousif Rashid Matar Al Zaabi decided to set up a foresight function for his government department, he wanted to invite external stakeholders to participate. But how to get them interested and coordinate such a large-scale group effort? The answer was Futures Platform.

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  • EXPLORING EMERGING TRENDS IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN SECTOR

    As a key player within the FMCG supply chain, Brambles uses Futures Platform to stay ahead of emerging trends in the global supply chain sector, and to explore the potential impacts these trends might have on their business through future scenarios.

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  • FORESIGHT FOR STRATEGY WORK IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

    As the Finnish healthcare sector underwent a transformative reform, 2M-IT, a publicly-owned company supporting the IT systems of 100,000 social and healthcare professionals, needed to anticipate and adapt to the changes ahead. Futures Platform supported 2M-IT in navigating the transformation.

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  • SHAPING FUTURE GROWTH INITIATIVES WITH IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL

    IESE Business School, ranked as the number 1 in executive education globally by Financial Times, is an experienced player in providing leadership education for global companies. Futures Platform played a key role in executing IESE’s ‘Leading the Future’ program for logistics firm Leschaco.

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  • city of Parkano in Finland uses foresight for new strategy implementation

    BUILDING FUTURE VISIONS TO GUIDE CITY PLANNING

    Foresight helps the city of Parkano remain resilient in a changing world.

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  • COLLABORATIVE FORESIGHT IN A NATIONAL TREASURY ORGANISATION

    As the Tax Administration of Finland embarked on establishing a framework for monitoring signals of change in its operating environment, the large size of the organisation and its diverse groups of stakeholders presented challenges to communication.

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  • FORESIGHT AT NEW ZEALAND’S MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT

    Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Transport uses Futures Platform to understand what the future of the transport industry may look like in the next 10 to 50 years, and to discover insights that guide policymaking, strategy and decision-making in generational investments.

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  • CO-SHAPING THE FUTURE OF CITY-LIVING IN A METROPOL

    How to build a sustainable Bangkok where residents can live, work, learn and play in healthy environments? FutureTales Lab, a futurology centre in Thailand, uses Futures Platform to explore alternative future scenarios and collaborate with a wide network of stakeholders.

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  • BUILDING A STRATEGIC FORESIGHT SYSTEM FOR AN INSURANCE COMPANY

    LocalTapiola’s s leadership and strategic planning department concluded that it was time to start building a foresight system to support strategic decision-making.

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  • USING FORESIGHT PLATFORM WITH CLIENTS TO BOOST SALES

    When The Lab of Business Disruption Research at the Turku School of Economics works on the future of a particular industry, they often use Futures Platform as a conversation starter, to provide structure to the workshops

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  • FOSTERING FUTURES THINKING SKILLS IN CLASSROOMS

    Espoo, the second largest city of Finland, uses Futures Platform widely for their education development. For example, high school students saw the platform as an important tool for developing foresight and developing their knowledge around areas covered by compulsory subjects.

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FUTURIST HIGHLIGHT REPORTS

We periodically publish what we call highlight reports which focus on a specific domain and highlight three important and topical future trends or phenomena in that domain. These reports also present related additional themes to look into. The reports are reviewed and updated every 6 months. All highlight reports are available for download free of charge.

  • FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE

    A set of pivotal change signals is steering healthcare into a new era. Our team of futurists highlight three signals with the most transformative potential.

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  • FUTURE OF INDUSTRY & MANUFACTURING

    From self-healing robots to innovative metamaterials, discover future-focused insights on select trends in manufacturing.

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  • FUTURE OF BANKING

    Banking is at a crossroads - ripe with potential but also fraught with challenges. Explore the disruptive shifts set to reshape the sector in the coming decades.

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  • URBANISATION & CONSTRUCTION

    Our team of futurists analyse three disruptive change signals that have the potential to address the complex challenges cities will face.

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  • FUTURE OF WORK

    We take a closer look at the transformative shifts redefining the world of work: Industry 5.0, the Gen Z workforce and the creator economy.

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  • ENERGY

    In this report, our team of futurists analyses 3 disruptive change signals emerging from the energy sector that may transform the world economy.

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  • CYBER SECURITY

    To help you stay ahead of the fast-evolving cyber threat landscape, our futurists have teamed up with the experts at the leading cyber consultancy Cyberwatch Finland.

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  • FOOD INDUSTRY

    As part of an in-depth foresight study, we analysed the major drivers of change in the food sector and identified 50 key trends. This report highlights three of them.

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  • CONSUMER GOODS

    As the world faces unprecedented challenges, radically new models will be required for large FMCG companies to survive into the future.

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  • AUTOMOTIVE

    In this report, our futurists outline the three most disruptive, cross-industry change signals that are reshaping the automobile value chain.

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  • FINANCE & OWNERSHIP

    Our Finance & Ownership report highlights the three most disruptive, cross-industry change signals emerging from the finance landscape.

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  • DATA & DIGITALISATION

    Out of 900+ disruptive trends on Futures Platform’s foresight database, read our futurists’ choice of three phenomena transforming data and digitalisation.

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