Services

Future Strategy
Development

Developing a future-ready strategy requires acknowledging future uncertainty and prioritizing key challenges that need to be addressed while remaining adaptive. Developing a future-ready strategy requires acknowledging future uncertainty and prioritizing key challenges that need to be addressed while remaining adaptive. Our proven Foresight-Driven Strategy approach combines strategic foresight, structured analysis and AI-supported exploration to enable companies to develop, validate and refine strategies for alternative plausible futures.

By combining external and internal perspectives and evaluating strategies against scenarios, we help organizations develop resilient strategies that tackle critical challenges and enable confident decision-making. Where helpful, AI supports the exploration of trends, strategic options and scenario implications.

What

Future Strategy Development in action 

Today, strategies need to be focused yet adaptive to effectively deal with constant change. They need to:

  • Incorporate rising levels of uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in the external environment
  • Focus on most important challenges that need to be addressed
  • Remain flexible and adaptive
  • Be actionable and accepted for rapid implementation in the organization
Foresight-driven Strategy-Challenge

We deliver a structured methodology:

  1. Key strategic challenges: Identify and define strategic challenges emerging from external and internal analysis, supported by systematic trend and signal exploration.
  2. Future-ready strategy: Develop and test alternative strategies across scenarios and define a future-proof strategy to address key challenges, supported by structured option generation and evaluation.
  3. Strat. initiatives: Define initiatives & develop implementation roadmap
Foresight-driven Strategy-Approach
  • Future developments report: Key trends and their future developments described as drivers of change, a reference and/or alternative scenarios
  • Strategic challenges & alternative strategies tested with external forces
  • Future-ready strategy to address key challenges, incl. strategic pillars and high level actions
  • Strategic initiatives & implementation roadmap
Foresight-driven Strategy-Outcome

Example Timeline

Project duration: 12-18 weeks

Week 1-5

External analysis

Week 3-8

Internal analysis

Week 8-12

Future-ready strategy

Week 12-16

Implementation roadmap

Sebastian

Want to know more about Future Strategy Development? Talk to Sebastian Knab, Partner Strategic Foresight