F O R E S I G H T
Anticipate what's emerging.
Strategy alone isn't enough when the assumptions underneath it are about to shift. Foresight is how we help organisations see those shifts coming — not as a prediction exercise, but as a disciplined way of expanding the range of futures you can act on.
We work with Governments and institutions designing strategy under deep uncertainty. Brands trying to read shifts in consumer culture, ingredients, and supply chains earlier than their competitors. And the foresight community itself — through fellowships, training, and collaboration with organisations like the School of International Futures.
Our work aims to future-proof your organization in an increasingly volatile context, systematically exploring alternative futures. Harnessing the collective intelligence of our network and your organization, we aim to recognise and respond to emerging threats and opportunities by developing enhanced competitiveness, resilience and agility.
TRANSFORM workshops & engagements — participatory, often experiential futures sessions that move teams from forecasting to anticipatory capability. Includes embodied formats with edible artifacts.
Scenario & strategic foresight studies — exploratory and normative scenarios for governments, brands, and institutions, including international foresight venues like the Dubai Future Forum.
Live inquiries — open, ongoing research projects (currently: Diaspora, Food & Supplier Futures) that map emerging shifts before they reach mainstream signal, attribute practitioners openly, and produce outputs the field can use.
Foresight capacity building — embedding the practice inside your team or programme so the next move doesn't require an external partner.
Here are the different ways in which we can help:
What we deliver
1.
Framing—
Understanding the Context
During the framing stage, we research the industry and refocus the problem to understand it more objectively. This is never an easy task! Guided by our experienced eye, we formulate the right questions and, as a consequence, extract vital information.
How we do it:
1. We investigate through due diligence, industry research, and inquiries to stakeholders, consumers, professionals, and in-house teams.
2. We review global trends to get context and perspective.
3. We envision potential scenarios as testing grounds for different strategies.
2.
Formulation—
Developing Solutions
If you want to continue working with us after we’ve delivered the framing insights, we move into the formulation stage. In today’s dynamic landscape, linear thinking and traditional forecasting no longer work. The process of scenario formulation provides a transformative way to navigate uncertainty. Through it, we embrace the concept of plausible scenarios by analyzing a wide range of potential variables.
We then transform these plausible scenarios into strategic options representing several possibilities. This gives you the agility and foresight to move forward smoothly no matter what comes next.
How we do it:
1. We test ideas in possible scenarios to create diverse strategies, drawing on insights from the framing stage.
2. We use these scenarios to formulate roadmaps and enable adaptive and focused planning.
3.
Communication—
Visualising the Solutions
Without the key stakeholder’s commitment, things can’t move forward. In this stage we help you craft high-impact communication pieces that resonate with your audience, conveying the essence of your strategic work and igniting inspiration and enthusiasm.
Speculative Design:
We develop tangible representations of your ideas to enable a better understanding of potential outcomes. Using a creative combination of visuals, experiences, objects, and tastings, we help you convey the impact of your new product or showcase your innovative concept.
Content Development:
We can help you create compelling narratives that support your ideas and help you build momentum. By distilling complex concepts into compelling stories we enable deeper understanding and engagement. From comprehensive reports to engaging videos, we help you narrate your strategic journey.
Need to see around the corner — or feel the future before you act on it?
TRANSFORM workshops, scenario studies, live inquiries, capacity building. Our foresight practice helps governments, brands, and institutions move from forecasting to anticipatory capability.
Our Methodology
Foresight & Futures
Foresight is a systematic way of engaging with uncertainty by exploring alternative futures, including aspirational ones.
As a discipline, it has the potential to shape the future. It is not about predicting the future, but understanding your current and future operating environment. It focuses on critical uncertainties.
Insights gained from foresight equip communities and organisations to recognise and respond to emerging threats and opportunities by developing enhanced competitiveness, resilience and agility.
Alternative Futures
Drivers of Change
Systems Thinking
Participatory Futures
Public engagement often focuses on solving problems of the present rather than the future.
Participatory futures can help unblock decision-making and action on contentious, long-term challenges by involving citizens in exploring or shaping potential futures.
They build collective intelligence about the future by helping people to diagnose change over the long-term, draw out knowledge and ideas about how the future could be, and develop collective mental images of the futures people want.
Future Studies
Public Engagement
Participatory Futures
Case Studies
Mycelium's live foresight inquiry into how diasporas reshape food supply chains — 100+ field signals from a global practitioner network, ongoing.