Quantumrun Foresight is a trend intelligence and strategic foresight agency that helps corporations and government agencies create future-ready business and policy solutions.

There is a seeming paradox in futures thinking. On the one hand, it is quite difficult and not very common as either method or skill. On the other hand, it is a natural function of the mind and parts of the brain are dedicated to it, sometimes called ‘memory of the future’; we call this […]

The art of looking sideways Horizon scanning (or environment scanning) entails the gathering of information on emerging issues and trends across the policy spectrum in the political, economic, social, technological, and environmental setting.  It can be perceived as a kind of radar to systematically scan the world and signal the new, the unexpected, the major, […]

The Three Horizons Framework by Bill Sharpe is a tool for thinking about transformation and how to bring it about. It doesn't give answers, but can bring new...

Futures Platform is the industry standard source for future trends, scenarios and long term change. It’s a full-functionality visual and collaborative toolbox for foresight and management teams, ensuring
 your organisation’s strategy and key decisions are future proof.

Futurescaper is a cloud-based collective intelligence platform that helps organisations crowdsource strategic conversations faster, cheaper, and more effectively.

Important Note If you wish to use the information provided in this page, please reference as follows: Popper, R. (2008) Foresight Methodology, in Georghiou, L., Cassingena, J., Keenan, M., Miles, I…

Exploring "How to Future" through the lens of Strategic Foresight...

Futures Wheel Analysis First, Second, and Third Order Impacts of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine created on 25 February 2022

Framework Foresight | Glossary | Tools | Jobs | Videos Futurists use a variety of terms, definitions, concepts, and tools in our work. Listed below are some of the terms and software tools you will learn about and use in classes as well as real world projects.

DESIGN FUTURES LITERACIES Creative, critical, timely and performative DESIGN FUTURES LITERACIES refers to a transdisciplinary mix of theories and concepts, methods and practices geared to support situated and resilient pedagogies for design students and teachers to engage productively and critically with the given and changing contexts and conditions of Design. This

The toolkit is developed for organizations in the humanitarian sector seeking to improve the education access and quality for crisis-affected communities via technology-enhanced solutions.

FutureCast will help you and your team explore risks and opportunities in an election context by engaging various stakeholders in thought-provoking and inclusive discussion. Participants respond to questions that trigger conversations about how the future might evolve during and after an electoral period. This page will help you create and run your own version. The […]

Scenario Exploration System EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF DATA GOVERNANCE A tool to spark futures dialogues How will Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other data-based technologies change our daily lives in the future? Will private citizens or big tech own our data? The Future of Data Governance board game helps you engage stakeholders in dialogues around various […]

We are excited to announce our latest project, The Futures Bazaar: A Public Imagination Toolkit, written by design futurists Filippo Cuttica and Stuart Candy, and co-published by Situation Lab and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Picture a wild and wonderful place where all alternative future possibilities co-exist at once, and can be physically encountered in

Understanding an era of surprises

Based on the framework and research of The Life-centred Design Guide by Damien Lutz, lifecentred.design empowers designers and small businesses to do what they can now to design products, services, and businesses to be kinder to the planet, people, and the future.

A toolkit to joyfully explore and design the future

The imaginary worlds of climate fiction can help ready us for whatever comes next.

Cover--- Hi Futures practitioners This database is an open-source archive of methods, games & media about the fields of foresight, futures & speculative design curated by a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benlowdon"Ben Lowdon/a. Feel free to add anything that you feel is missing. If you ...

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