ALL-IN-ONE SOLUTION FOR STRATEGIC FORESIGHT

MAINTAIN ORGANISATIONAL VIGILANCE BY UNDERSTANDING WHAT COULD BE AHEAD

Futures Platform is the industry standard source for future trends and scenarios, and a full-functionality collaborative platform for ensuring your organisation’s strategy and key decisions are future proof.

With a Futures Platform subscription, you get:

  • Unlimited access to 1500+ future trend, phenomenon and scenario analyses by leading futurists

  • 40+ futurist maintained, pre-filled foresight radars on diverse themes like climate and geopolitics

  • AI based feed of news signals from 500+ validated external sources

  • Search news signals from a repository of 1M+ curated items

  • Visual foresight toolbox: search, explore, organize, add, modify, import, export

  • Advanced tools for horizon scanning, foresight radar, scenario analysis, and more

  • Rich collaboration tools to share, vote, discuss and co-create

  • And much more

 

1500+ IN-DEPTH ANALYSES OF FUTURE PHENOMENA, TRENDS AND SCENARIOS

A 360 DEGREE VIEW OF THE FUTURE –
FROM 3 TO 30 YEARS FROM NOW

Our in-house team of futurists, as well as carefully selected external partners, continuously add, update and maintain a rich library of analyses on future trends, phenomena and scenarios. There’s currently more than 1500 of them on the platform, with hundreds added and all of them re-evaluated each year, all available to our subscribers.

 
 

Academic grade methodology

Each phenomenon analysis is created by our futurists through rigorous, academic standard methodology. The process involves horizon scanning, driver mapping and scenario analysis, among others. Each phenomenon is peer reviewed before publication. Finalised analyses are published in an easy-to-digest article format, including additional readings and AI-generated feed of related news & signals.

A 360 degree view of the world

We ensure a rich coverage of topics by applying a 32-element taxonomy of the world, including domains such as energy, values and ethics, food, public governance, and climate change. For each theme, our futurists have produced a future radar, giving a handy way to explore and understand related phenomena. There’s currently more than 40 theme radars available for you to work on.

Continuously updated library

All the above content is being continuously updated and maintained by our futurist team. To stay on top of new developments, we add roughly 200 new phenomena each year. All pre-existing phenomena and radars are being updated as necessary, minimum every six months.

 

VISUAL FORESIGHT TOOL FOR EXPLORATION AND COLLABORATION

 

Systematic foresight is about creating a shared, holistic overview of the future state of matters, to carry out critical and innovative futures-oriented planning, and to make interpretations and strategic prioritizations.

This means foresight is about scanning and comprehensively understanding potentially several hundreds of relevant phenomena that might impact your organisation’s mission and strategy in the future. In professional organisations and teams, this is always a collaborative and systematic process. This is why we’ve developed a complete set of tools to make your foresight work as fluent and collaborative as possible.

 
 

SEARCH, EXPLORE AND IDENTIFY TRENDS

  • Horizon scanning

  • Browse and search phenomena

  • AI generated news feed

CREATE & WORK WITH FORESIGHT RADARS

  • View and save futurist-generated existing radars

  • Create & customise new ones

  • Modify any saved radar

  • Export & share radars

 

COLLABORATE AND CO-CREATE

  • Invite people to collaborate

  • Gather comments & votes

  • Enable rating & crowdsourcing

  • Robust access control for users & visitors

ADD, IMPORT AND SHARE

  • Create or import new content

  • Export to PPTX

  • Share link to view

  • Embed on web pages

 
Onboarding support and consulting services at Futures Platform
 

SUPPORT AND SERVICES

WE ARE WITH YOU AT EVERY STAGE OF YOUR JOURNEY

Along with the platform and the unique content on it, we offer a rich array of guidance and services along your journey, and towards the next level in your organisation’s foresight capability. 

 

ONBOARDING AND SUPPORT

With each new subscription we assign a dedicated foresight specialist from our customer success team. We are committed to making sure all relevant people from your organisation get a kick-start in working with the platform. This is topped with an annual development plan tailor-made for each organisation.

CONSULTING SERVICES

To help you dive even deeper into foresight analysis, we’ve developed an array of additional services, and offer the expertise of our futurists and consulting team for you. Our services range from custom trend packages and foresight workshops to large-scale foresight capability development projects.

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY

  • Comprehensive.

    “In todays connected and fast paced world, there is a lot to track as a Foresight team – and we do. Futures Platform’s combination of artificial and human intelligence helps us to overlook as little as possible.“

    — Thomas Boermans,
    Head of Foresight, E.On

  • Very usable.

    “Futures Platform's radars and phenomena are very usable as a tool for horizon scanning and can assist the work of the policy analyst. They can be particularly valuable for the two purposes of horizon scanning: long-term planning and policy analysis.”

    — European Parliamentary Research Service,
    Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA)

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