Strategic Foresight · Futures Design
The future is
already arriving.
Is your organization
ready for it?
Foresight House is a research consultancy for organizations that refuse to be surprised. We study what is coming, build the scenarios to lead markets and societies, and help you act with clarity before the moment demands it.
Research Practice One
Strategic Foresight
Commissioned research, scenario planning, and horizon scanning for organizations navigating structural uncertainty.
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Research Practice Two
Futures Design
Design-led work that makes futures tangible — preferred futures workshops, scenario narratives, and strategic vision development.
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The Problem
Most organizations plan for
one future.
The future they expect. The one that looks like a better version of the present. But the futures that actually reshape industries, disrupt organizations, and demand entirely different strategies are usually the ones nobody was planning for.
What most organizations do
"We built a five-year plan. We modelled three scenarios. We assumed the world would mostly continue in the direction it was already going."
—Strategic plans built around a single preferred future
—Scenarios that are really just variations on the expected future
—No structured process for monitoring signals at the edges
—Strategies that depend heavily on current conditions continuing
What foresight practice makes possible
Understanding the full range of futures your organization might operate in — and making decisions robust enough to work across all of them.
◆Rigorous scenario development across genuinely divergent futures
◆Structured horizon scanning to identify emerging signals early
◆Strategies tested against multiple futures, not just one
◆Decision-making processes built for genuine uncertainty
The organizations that
thrive in disruption are
the ones that saw it
coming first.
Foresight is not prediction. It is the structured practice of understanding what futures are plausible, what signals indicate which directions are emerging, and what decisions remain sound across multiple scenarios rather than depending on any single one arriving.
Foresight House brings a rare combination to this work: engineering rigour, peer-reviewed research in AI and design, and a sustained independent practice in strategic foresight. The work is built for organizations serious about what is coming — and serious about being ready for it.
The Work
Two research practices.
One integrated methodology.
Strategic Foresight maps the futures your organization is moving into. Futures Design translates that research into something your organization can work toward. Both practices are available independently — and are most powerful when combined.
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Springer Nature Publications
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Research Built for Your Context
Research Practice One
Strategic
Foresight
Rigorous research into the futures your organization will operate in — so the decisions you make today hold up in the world that actually arrives.
What This Work Is
Understanding the futures
moving toward you.
Strategic Foresight is not forecasting. Forecasting assumes a single knowable future. Foresight research maps the range of plausible futures, identifies the signals that indicate which directions are gaining momentum, and builds the strategic frameworks that hold up across genuinely different scenarios — not just variations on the present.
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Commissioned Foresight Research
Custom research engagements that answer a specific strategic question about the futures your organization is moving into. Horizon scanning, signal analysis, scenario construction, and strategic implications — all built around your sector, your context, and your actual decision-making needs.
Delivered as a structured research report with scenarios, strategic implications, and recommendations for decision-making under uncertainty.
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Scenario Planning Workshops
Structured facilitation that guides leadership teams through the rigorous development of multiple future scenarios — and the strategic decisions those scenarios demand. Not brainstorming sessions. Not generic frameworks applied to your situation. Built from research specific to your sector and questions.
Teams leave with scenario frameworks they own and can use for ongoing strategic planning.
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Strategic Foresight Advisory
Ongoing foresight retainer for organizations that want to embed futures thinking into how they plan, decide, and adapt. Monthly horizon scanning, quarterly scenario reviews, and strategic advisory on signals relevant to your sector.
Suited to associations, foundations, and organizations in sectors undergoing significant structural change.
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Keynote & Conference Presentations
Talks designed to provoke, orient, and activate audiences around futures thinking, emerging signals, and the art of strategic adaptation. Drawing on published research and applied foresight practice.
Topics include the future of work, organizational resilience, AI and the knowledge economy, and the methodology of thinking long.
How an Engagement Unfolds
What working together
looks like.
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Discovery Conversation
A complimentary 30-minute conversation to understand your organization, your strategic context, and the questions you are trying to answer. No obligation — just clarity about whether this work is the right fit.
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Research Scoping
We define the research question, the scope, the methodology, and the deliverables together. Foresight research built for your specific situation — not a generic report with your logo on the cover.
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Research & Analysis
Horizon scanning, signal gathering, expert synthesis, and scenario construction using our AI-powered research methodology. Rigorous, structured, and built around your sector and strategic context.
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Delivery & Integration
Research delivered as a structured report, presentation, or workshop — depending on what your organization needs most. We stay engaged through integration to ensure the work moves from insight into actual decisions.
Research Practice Two
Futures
Design
Understanding where the future is going is only half the work. The other half is designing the future your organization actually wants to inhabit — and building the clarity to pursue it with intention.
What This Work Is
Making futures
tangible.
Futures Design bridges the gap between foresight research and organizational action. Where Strategic Foresight asks "what futures are possible?", Futures Design asks "which future do we want to build, and how do we begin?" It is design-led, narrative-driven, and built for leadership teams who need more than analysis — they need a picture of what they are working toward.
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Preferred Futures Workshops
Facilitated design sessions where leadership teams move from understanding possible futures to actively imagining and articulating the future they want to create. Structured, rigorous, and grounded in the foresight research — not wishful thinking.
Teams leave with a shared vision of the future they are working toward, translated into concrete strategic implications and near-term decisions.
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Scenario Narratives & Visual Frameworks
Scenario research translated into compelling narrative documents and visual frameworks that make futures tangible for leadership teams, boards, and wider organizational audiences.
When people can see and read a future, they can discuss it, debate it, and make decisions about it. We turn analysis into artifacts that organizations can actually use.
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Strategic Vision Development
Working with leadership teams to translate futures thinking into a clear, articulated strategic vision — one that is grounded in rigorous research rather than aspiration alone.
This is not a branding exercise. It is the structured work of defining what your organization stands for in the futures that are arriving, and what decisions follow from that clarity.
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Futures Communication & Reporting
Designing how your organization communicates its strategic foresight work internally and externally — to boards, members, funders, or the public. Futures research that cannot be communicated clearly has limited strategic value.
We design the documents, presentations, and narratives that make your foresight work legible and compelling to the audiences who need to act on it.
The Relationship Between the Two Practices
Research without design
stays on the shelf.
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Strategic Foresight provides the map.
Rigorous research into the forces, signals, and scenarios shaping the futures your organization will operate in. It tells you what is coming and gives you the frameworks to think about it clearly.
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Futures Design turns the map into movement.
Design-led work that translates research into preferred futures, visual narratives, and strategic frameworks. It gives your organization something to work toward — not just something to be aware of.
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Both practices are available independently.
Organizations with existing foresight research may need Futures Design to make that work actionable. Organizations with a strong strategic vision may need Foresight research to stress-test and extend it. We work with you wherever you are.
Writing & Research
Insights from
Foresight House
Essays, research, and thinking on the futures of work, organizations, and the forces reshaping the world. Published on Substack.
From the Publication
Recent
Writing
Strategic Foresight
The Organizations That Will Thrive in 2030 Are Already Making Different Decisions
Strategic resilience is not built during crises. It is built in the quiet years when nobody is paying attention to the signals. What those signals look like right now — and what to do about them.
Read on Substack →Futures Design
Why Your Strategic Vision Is Probably Built on a Single Future
Most organizational visions describe a preferred future as if it were the only future. Here is what happens when a different one arrives — and how to design for multiple futures instead.
Read on Substack →Research Methods
How AI Is Changing the Practice of Foresight Research
AI tools have genuinely transformed how foresight research is conducted. But the methodology still requires human judgment at every critical juncture. What changes, and what does not.
Read on Substack →Strategic Foresight
Scenario Planning Is Not Prediction — It Is Permission
The purpose of building scenarios is not to know which future will arrive. It is to give your organization permission to prepare for futures it would otherwise refuse to consider.
Read on Substack →Futures Design
Making Futures Tangible — Why Narrative Is the Missing Tool in Strategic Planning
Data and analysis tell organizations what might happen. Narrative tells them what it would feel like to live and work in that future. That difference matters more than most strategy processes acknowledge.
Read on Substack →Strategic Foresight
The Signals That Matter Are Already Visible
Horizon scanning is not about predicting the future. It is a structured practice of paying attention to the edges — where the next decade is already taking shape for those willing to look carefully.
Read on Substack →