Futures & Foresight

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.

Keynote at the "Reimagining Tomorrow: Alternative Futures for Organization and Management Idea Development Workshop & Expert Panel", May 2024Event website: ...

There are no neat solutions to the intertwined climatic, economic and political crises of our time. What will move us all forward together is a radical reimagining of how to design the future.

Your neighborhood watering hole is more important than you think.

and the logical conclusion of attention at all costs

Sway harnesses the power of seaweed to create home-compostable replacements for single-use plastic packaging.

May 06, 2024 • Figproxy enables rapid prototyping of tangible user experiences by allowing Figma prototypes to talk to the external world. This article dives into what it is and why I made it.

Discover how IFTF Vantage can guide you and your organization on your journey to future readiness. IFTF Vantage provides you with all the resources, methods,...

Download scientific diagram | Scenario matrix highlighting the main characteristics of four plausible alternative futures, arising from the combination of two axes describing key uncertainties regarding the future development of Transylvania (modified from Hanspach et al., 2014) .  from publication: The role of scenarios in fostering collective action for sustainable development: Lessons from central Romania | Collective Action, Sustainable Development and Natural Resources Conservation | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.

I was at the Airport heading back from a work trip, when I stumbled upon one of the books that have completely reshaped my thinking: The…

What does it mean to redesign Amazon as a degrowth business? Can a fashion brand use degrowth principles to be more successful? While these…

Our global community is at a crossroads. Accepting the present quo is like navigating modern civilization with a typewriter and carrier pigeon—charming but impractical

Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.

A little bit of nonsensewatching for a Wednesday.

Learn how to build plausible, engaging and actionable scenarios with an easy-to-use scenario planning framework.

As the boom of text-to-image generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues, artists are threatened not only by cheaper, AI-fuelled competition but by the risk that their work is scraped from the web and used to train AI models, without consent or compensation. Recently, some artists have started to fight fire with fire, trialling ‘data poisoning’ as a technical solution: deliberately inserting corrupted or malicious data into the training material for AI models to prevent its proper function. Could this presage the bust to follow AI’s boom? --- Every year we identify the signals that could show us the shape of things to come. Read about them here: https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/future-signals-2024/

In many organizations, tightly scheduled calendars prioritize urgent projects with measurable short-term outcomes. Instead, make time to think about the future.