Since May 2021, new phenomena published on the platform includes two alternative, fully-fledged scenario narratives to provide you with more comprehensive assessments on future developments.
Up until now, content cards on Futures Platform have included three main text sections; Summary, Background, and Impacts.
The summary part is a short section that delivers the main points. The Background section highlights the origins and key developments behind the phenomenon, and the Impacts section provides a brief description of how the phenomenon could develop in the future and what impacts it might have across industries.
You can read more about our content production process here.
INTRODUCING THE NEW CONTENT CARD
In our updated content cards, we’ve replaced the Impacts section with a new Impact Assessment section. This new section includes a list of key drivers that are pushing the change forward, as well as two alternative scenario narratives and their development timelines. The scenarios reflect our assessment of the two likeliest potential directions the given trend or phenomenon may take in the future.
The Summary part still delivers the main points and indicates how we think the issue will develop.
The Background section looks at the history of the phenomenon, maps its current state and lists the main actors.
HOW DO WE PRODUCE THE SCENARIOS?
The changes in the content card reflect the developments in the analytical processes of Futures Platform’s content team. Through our 10+ years of expertise in foresight and scenario planning, we have developed a structured, multiple phase process through which new signals are identified, analysed, assessed and crafted into futures intelligence.
This process relies heavily on peer-review and questioning the initial assumptions. To deliver robust and well-founded views on the future, we utilise both foresight and intelligence-derived tools that ensure the quality of our process.
The scenarios are developed systematically using the Futures Table and Analysis of Competing Hypotheses methods modified for Futures Platform’s use. Each scenario undergoes a rigorous internal peer-review process. For each phenomenon, four scenarios are produced, of which the two most important ones are described in their entirety.
START EXPLORING DIFFERENT SCENARIOS
Futures Platform’s updated content cards are a new level of foresight information. They provide our customers with ready-made evaluated scenarios that can be immediately put to use in various processes such as strategy testing, innovation, and risk identification.
In addition to newly published phenomena, many of the existing phenomena in our database will be updated with scenarios during the coming months. Eventually, Futures Platform’s database will have hundreds of systematically produced scenarios at your disposal.
You can find a full list of all published and upcoming content cards that include scenarios here.
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