The world is rapidly changing and we all face increasingly difficult decisions. How can we be confident in our long-term choices?
Do you feel like the pace of change is accelerating? Are you unsure about AI and what it means for work, society and you? Want to make decisions that stand the test of time?
FAST: Futures and Systems Thinking helps bring clarity to the complexity of the present and the uncertainty of the future.
With a focus on outcomes not methods, we enjoy building on the proven state of the art in Foresight and Systems Thinking to adapt, combine, and create approaches to understand the present and build a better future .
What should you be aiming for?
How should you be getting there?
Where are the risks and challenges?
To be blunt, if you are a leader, and you aren’t thinking about the future, what are you doing? There is always more day-to-day stuff ready to fill your time, but when it comes to thinking about the long term success of your project, team, company or life: if not you, who? As a bonus, by improving your awareness of emerging external issues, building pictures of alternative futures, and developing resilient visions and plans, over time you’ll find there is less fire-fighting to be done in the future.
Foresight is about being prepared for all possible futures rather than trying to precisely predict just one future. It is Futures Thinking, not “Future Thinking” by design. Anyone telling you they can tell the future shouldn’t be trusted, but by thinking about possible futures in a structured way that utilises evidence and expertise you can cut down on risks caused by uncertainty and open up new opportunities.
That’s entirely up to you! Some techniques can be done using a sheet of paper in a few minutes, others benefit from gathering large numbers of expert opinions. You’ll gain greater benefits the more you put in. Foresight activities tend to have increasing returns when part of a Foresight-Ecosystem, where they can mutually support and reinforce each other, but even a short one-off activity can be revolutionary if done in the right way.