Hay Group Asia-Pacific
Challenging workshops to develop new futures thinking abilities
November – December 2006
The brief:
Hay Group wished to conduct challenging ‘futures thinking’ workshops, to help its consultants become externally focussed and think longer-term. The project and workshops aimed to explore what the future in 2016 could be like, focussed on organisations and what factors will be crucial to organisational success and catalyse the ability of consultants to have conversations about various possible futures.
Our solution:
Futureye designed a thought-provoking workshop and challenged the participants to start thinking and imagining before the workshop. Participants were assigned one of three topics – Information and Communication Technologies, Globalisation and People – to be explored in an environmental scanning exercise.
Futureye designed a thought-provoking workshop and challenged the participants to start thinking and imagining before the workshop. Participants were assigned one of three topics – Information and Communication Technologies, Globalisation and People – to be explored in an environmental scanning exercise.
The teams explored their topic, looked forward into the future by developing a ‘futures wheel’ and developed a short presentation for the workshop. Futureye developed alternative 2016 scenarios for a number of sectors to be explored during the workshop. Katherine Teh-White facilitated the workshops, taking participants on the journey back to 1986 and then forwards to 2016, and then finally distilling key themes and implications for the Hay Group.
The result:
The process gave participants a richer sense of the rapidly changing context in which Hay Group Asia Pacific and its clients’ operate. The exercises and workshops also provided a rare occasion for the team to think together, on topics rarely discussed, and provocative consideration on the future of key industries and sectors. Hay Group is planning to take this ‘strategic foresight’ process to the next level by collaboratively thinking through the specific implications for its core practice areas.
The result:
The process gave participants a richer sense of the rapidly changing context in which Hay Group Asia Pacific and its clients’ operate. The exercises and workshops also provided a rare occasion for the team to think together, on topics rarely discussed, and provocative consideration on the future of key industries and sectors. Hay Group is planning to take this ‘strategic foresight’ process to the next level by collaboratively thinking through the specific implications for its core practice areas.
“The workshop very clearly met our objectives and provided a great opportunity to take time out and consider the future. Futureye provided new content and perspectives that helped to broaden our horizon.”
Helen Scotts
General Manager, Hay Group Asia-Pacific
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