CONSULTING SERVICES
DEVELOP YOUR FORESIGHT CAPABILITY
The plural understanding of futures is what differentiates foresight from market intelligence - there are different versions of futures until we make one happen. Our consulting services are designed to orient your team around a shared vision of preferable futures for your organisation and help you build winning strategies to actively shape the future.
Whether you want to get quick results with our platform, build long-term foresight capability and processes in your organisation, or any other special needs in between, our experienced team of futurists, economists and foresight consultants are there to help and augment your team.
WE OFFER VERSATILE CONSULTING SERVICES TO IMPROVE YOUR FORESIGHT MATURITY
The Foresight Maturity Model by Futures Platform:
The core aim behind our consulting services is to facilitate your foresight skills development and equip you with the skillset to make future-proof decisions in a rapidly changing world.
We define the needs in each client case through our Foresight Maturity Model, built based on extensive academic review and our 20+ years of experience in foresight consulting. We adapt our services to your organisation’s current foresight maturity, with a bespoke action plan to reach your desired level.
Our Services
Foresight Competence Building: We help you get started with foresight, facilitate your foresight skills development and equip you with the skillset to make future-proof decisions in a rapidly changing world.
Futurist Insights & Analysis: Want to save time in your research, get a second opinion, or discover game-changing innovation opportunities at the right time? Our experienced futurists will help you identify the most relevant trends, risks and opportunities for your organisation and show you how to apply them to your strategies.
Foresight into Action: Do you want to kickstart your foresight process? Or perhaps you want to test new products, services or client needs? With its focus on experimentation and actionable insights, our Foresight into Action services will get you up to speed in no time.
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Foresight Theory & Methods
Equip your team with solid futures thinking skills and ensure your work is grounded in a comprehensive understanding of future possibilities. Our workshops will familiarise you with foresight theory, methods and use cases, and provide you with actionable next steps.
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Foresight System Building
Build a foresight system from the ground up or boost your existing one. We help you define team roles and responsibilities, set clear targets, and develop strategic themes to tie your foresight activities to your everyday work in a structured way.
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Horizon Scanning
Get a thorough understanding of your future landscape and discover strategic strengths, weaknesses, and disruptive changes to prepare for. Our futurists will scan your operational environment for early signs of change and help you find a future-proof way forward.
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Trend Analysis
Deep-dive into the trends on your radar and discover their implications from your organisation’s perspective. Utilising our proprietary methodology, our futurists will create customised trend descriptions on one or several of your special topics.
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Scenario Building
Explore the most critical uncertainties facing your organisation’s future and the different ways they may unfold. Our scenario narratives will provide you with a rich point of view on alternative futures and help you align your strategies with various future possibilities.
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Scenario Strategies
Our Scenario strategies service takes scenario building one step further by guiding your team in building four winning strategies for each scenario. Our experts evaluate and verify the strategies to ensure that they’re future-proof.
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Strategy Stress Test
Verify the durability of your strategy and bring a fresh perspective to your strategic processes. Our experts will test your strategies against different future possibilities to help you identify your competitive advantages and development needs to build future-fit strategies.
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Futures Mornings
Engage your team with short and fun exercises on futures thinking or get serious with futurist deep-dives into selected themes. Our Futures Mornings offer an easy-to-digest, lightweight introduction to continuous strategic foresight.
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Foresight Hackathons
Unlock the power of creative problem-solving in your team with engaging, hands-on hackathon sessions. Our foresight hackathons facilitate your team to test foresight insights in real-world cases and turn them into future-ready products, services and strategies.
How we help our clients
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We tailor-make workshops according to your foresight maturity level and targets. We don’t only provide you with solutions, but we also facilitate your learning on how to achieve the results yourself.
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Today, the most disruptive changes often come from outside of one’s industry. Our futurists help you in scanning your operating environment from a holistic perspective to identify disruptive change signals and provide you with action points to navigate the fast-changing environment, seize opportunities and avoid risks.
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Our facilitative scenario building services foster a mutual understanding among your team on what alternative futures could look like and what potential disruptors you may face. We help you create the necessary flexibility and agility in your strategic processes to see the opportunities in future changes.
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Our mission is to enable organisations to take their foresight capability to the next level. We involve a wider audience in the experimentation of different foresight methods and help define the potential ones for you.
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We will help you arrange your foresight activities in a systematic manner to provide continuous use of foresight methods that benefit strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Your team will be assisted to reach the next foresight maturity level.
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We help you identify your competitive advantages, as well as immediate and long-term development needs. We will ensure that none of the top management decisions goes without future proof scrutiny.
”A key enabler for effective and productive foresight work.”
- Soile Ollila, Foresight Manager, Business Finland
MEET SOME OF OUR EXPERTS
We are a diverse team of futurists based in Finland. Our goal at Futures Platform is to make foresight accessible, easy and practical for organisations, and empower teams to work with the future together in a wide range of use cases - from strategic planning to product development, innovation and risk management.
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Anna Grabtchak
Director, Foresight Capability Development
Anna has planned and led several strategy and foresight scenario projects since 2017. She has been a senior consultant for over 10 years. Today Anna is heading the service development at Futures Platform.
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Ira Stening
Senior Consultant, Foresight Capability Development
Ira is a consultant and practitioner of strategic foresight. She has worked for 20+ years with multinational corporations in the construction, telecommunications and energy sectors on topics relating to foresight-based strategies. She also mentors start-ups on sustaining competitive edge.
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Marianna Mäki-Teeri
Senior Manager, Foresight Capability Development
Marianna is a futurist specialising in the development of foresight processes and services, consulting, facilitation and project management. Her industry expertise includes food production, consumption, consumer trends, agriculture, safety, education and learning.
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Tuomo Kuosa, PhD
Content Director
Tuomo is a futurist specialising in strategic foresight with over 15 years of experience on futures research methodology and anticipating societal transformation. He leads the foresight content team at Futures Platform. He is the author of ’The Evolution of Strategic Foresight’ and multiple other books.
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Max Stucki
Foresight Analysis Manager
Max manages the foresight & trend analysis process at Futures Platform. Futurist consultation, facilitation and project management. Max has several years of analytical and advisory experience over various projects, including the Middle East region.
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Shiori Ota
Senior Foresight Analyst
Shiori is an experienced foresight analyst who also regularly takes part in customer projects as a futurist. At Futures Platform, Shiori works with futures intelligence research and scenario analysis.