IDENTIFY FUTURE TRENDS, INNOVATIONS AND DISRUPTIONS
KEEP AN EYE ON THE FUTURE
All you need in making sense of the future
✓ Everything you need for effective horizon scanning
✓ 1000+ analyses of future trends, innovations & disruptions
✓ 1M+ news signals auto-detected by AI
✓ Visualise, analyse and share future views
YOUR TRUSTED COMPANION IN FUTURES INTELLIGENCE
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Identify key future trends and disruptions
Quickly get a comprehensive view of key future changes — megatrends, trends, disruptions, opportunities, risks — impacting your business
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Never miss any critical developments
Ensure your back and sides are covered with the world’s largest repository of future analyses by professional futurists
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Understand how your domain is likely to evolve
Gain leadership and authority by forming an understanding of your domain’s likely development paths from 5 to 20 years ahead
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Future-proof your strategy
Ensure your organisation’s strategy is up the challenges ahead, in a world of VUCA — volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
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Get notified as things change
Get automatically notified on newly identified developments and likely disruptions on any key domain, technology, innovation or other aspect of our society
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Visualise, analyse and share future views
Use versatile and visually compelling tools to share and work with your team and peers on a shared understanding of the future
BUILT FOR DECISION-MAKERS AND ANALYSTS
Ensure key decisions are future proof at all times
1000+ in-depth analyses of future trends & innovations created by a team of professional futurists
1M+ news signals curated by futurists: search, follow feeds or create personalised alerts
Visualise the future with foresight radars, including 40+ pre-filled radars by futurists
A 360 degree view of key changes in the world, following a taxonomy of 32 key dimensions
Easy-to-digest visualisations and article format: a consistent format for quickly understanding large entities
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
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Comprehensive.
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“In today’s connected and fast-paced world, there is a lot to track as a Foresight team – and we do. Futures Platform’s combination of artificial and human intelligence helps us to overlook as little as possible.“
— Thomas Boermans, Head of Foresight, E.On
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Valuable information.
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“Futures Platform provides comprehensive and valuable information for us in looking at the uncertain future business environment.”
– Yoshikazu Kondo, General manager, Technology Foresight Center, Mitsui & Co
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Trusted partner.
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”Futures Platform empowers us to navigate uncertainty with systemic, evidence-based insights. The platform plays an essential role in our anticipatory governance work, enabling us to collaborate with stakeholders and make forward-looking decisions.”
– Peter de Smedt, Director Strategic Insights & Analyses, Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Flanders
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New ideas.
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”The biggest benefit of using Futures Platform has been allowing the decision-makers to see the ideas that they haven't thought of yet.”
– Joe Kearney, Insight Specialist, New Zealand Transport Agency
BENEFITS TO BUSINESS LEADERS
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GROW REVENUES
Focus on viable markets, keep an eye on emerging opportunities, and shield existing revenue sources from disruptive shocks
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OPTIMISE COST BASE
Stay on top of the innovation curve and latest technological developments, and also be prepared for disruptions
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MITIGATE BUSINESS RISK
Reduce the impact of uncertainties by mapping drivers of volatility and emerging sources of risk
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BUILD VIGILANCE
Build vigilance and resilience in your business by creating a foresight mindset and a shared understanding of potential future developments
LEADING FUTURISTS WORKING FOR YOU 24/7
Futures Platform’s team of futurist continuously scan 360 degrees of the world to identify and study key changes and scenarios that could impact our lives and the world economy in the 5-20+ years ahead. Our futurists produce roughly 200 in-depth analyses of future phenomena each year, and keep existing ones up to date as new information becomes available.
FAQ
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Our proprietary, rigorous research process draws from the academic field of future studies (or sometimes called strategic foresight). Each future phenomenon is analysed by professional futurists through a systematic process that maps all key drivers and scenarios, and triangulates inputs from multiple high-quality sources. All content is peer-reviewed before publication.
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Not necessarily. But the entire idea in strategic foresight is to map potential drivers of future disruption with as broad lenses as possible. Research shows most disruptions originate from outside a specific domain. It’s about asking lots of “what if’s” and prepping yourself for whatever could be ahead. Not all plausible future phenomena will ever take place in large scale, but if they do, you will be prepared and ahead of others.
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We generally focus on anything relevant that could become significant in 5..20 years’ time. These can be categorized roughly into one or more of these: megatrends, trends, disruptions, change drivers, opportunities, risks, and scenarios.
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Generally, we aim to cover everything as widely as possible, including all key aspects of the world — the economy, business, innovation, science, society, politics — and most likely also hundreds of thing you’ve never heard of before. To ensure maximal objectivity and balance, our futurists triangulate 100s of reliable sources and also use a 32-element taxonomy to ensure we coverage of all key developments in the world.
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For all subscriptions, we offer access to The HUB, which is our rich collection of guides, tutorials, method descriptions, process outlines, best practices, case studies and much more. From Future Explorer and broader plans, our Customer Success Team guides you through your entire journey and offers help with any questions you may have.