Strategic Foresights

One of the featured categories on All Things Insights is our Strategic Foresights resource page featuring a range of helpful information for the insights professional surrounding change. This includes content such as critical thinking, foresight culture, fringe mapping, trend mapping, futurism, horizon scanning, methodologies, forecasting, scenario planning, predictive modeling, and more. The strategic foresights resource section is ideal for those involved in planning future insights strategy, forecasters, those dealing with corporate or consumer uncertainty, corporate foresight, and more, and provides knowledge and education for the insights expert and novice alike.

Strategic foresight, also known as futures thinking or futures planning, is a proactive and systematic approach to understanding and anticipating future possibilities, trends, uncertainties, and disruptions that could impact an organization, industry, or society. It involves analyzing a wide range of potential future scenarios to inform present-day decision-making and strategic planning.

Strategic foresight is particularly valuable in a rapidly changing and uncertain world, as it equips organizations with the tools to anticipate challenges, identify opportunities, and make decisions that position them for long-term success. It helps organizations move beyond reactive approaches to strategic planning and encourages them to proactively shape their own futures. Content could include anticipating change, scenario planning & building, environmental scanning, weak signals, uncertainty management, long-term thinking, innovation strategy, risk mitigation, adaptability, and cross-disciplinary approaches.