Strategic Foresight is a valuable asset for organizations that want to improve their preparedness, competitiveness, and resiliency in an increasingly uncertain world of rapid change. What steps can you and your organization take to benefit from what Foresight has to offer?
Identify resources
What staff and budget can you harness to make Foresight a regular part of your organization? Can you assign someone as the Foresight focal point, and provide them with support? More and more organizations are including Foresight and futures thinking as part of a designated staff member’s job description. Reserve funds in your very next budget for identifying weak signals, pinpointing trends, identifying drivers of change, and elaborating scenarios.
Revisit what you think you know
Challenge the assumptions underpinning your operational plans, policies and strategies. Are they valid? The intertwined health and economic crises have dramatically altered the way that many businesses operate, and have stimulated government spending, new public programs, and the adoption or revision of rules, regulations and legislation. Meanwhile, underlying trends — many related to digital technologies — have in some cases accelerated during the pandemic. If your previous assumptions are wrong, your existing plans of…
