Futures Planning and Analysis

How prudent is your organisation's planning for the future?

Sustainability issues require new planning approaches that more carefully consider the future.  Our Futures Planning and Analysis services are designed to engage your organisation through foresight processes that use the latest tools and take into account multiple stakeholder perspectives.

Understanding the future scenarios that may confront your organisation, and what might lead to them, enables you to put in train efforts to take advantage of opportunities and reduce risks. This will make your planning more robust and can also help you to be a more effective agent of change.

From predictive approaches, based on forecasting methods and expert input and analysis, through to anticipatory and creative approaches that seek to 'open up' the future, Futureye can refresh and deepen your strategic planning and policy-making processes.

Our services

  • Futures workshops - Creatively explore how your context has changed and could shift
  • Environmental scanning - Scanning for trends and indicators of change; assessing their potential impacts
  • Strategic scenario planning - Identifying futures that could transform your organisation or test adaptive capacity
  • Assumption surfacing and testing - Assess if your plans and forecasts are built on solid foundations
  • Emerging issues identification and analysis - Identify new possibilities and anticipate potential discontinuities
  • Wildcard identification and response guidelines - Proactively identify ‘high-impact, low-probability’ future events (“wildcards”) and assess vulnerability
  • Delphi surveys - Gather and synthesise expert views on a key issue or likely future developments.


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Using scenarios effectively
How scenario planning processes can help people and organisations think about the future in a different way.
Futureye Newsletter 2006*

Foresight challenges
Defining the relevance of futures research to sustainability strategies.
Futureye Members' Forum 2008 

Futures expert insight
Steve Tighe advocates moving out of the “safe zone” to gain strategic foresight.
Futureye Members' Forum 2007