At ANTICIPATE, we are on a mission to build futures readiness, help create meaningful change, as well as democratise futures,** making foresight more accessible, more practical, and more widely used than it is today.

After close to three years of building ANTICIPATE, we want to do something a bit unusual: ****

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We would like offer our time for free, as a one-off, to an impact-driven organisation.

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We’re still a business. We still believe people should be paid for their work in general. On top of this, payment creates seriousness and commitment on both sides.

So consider this is a one-time exception — and a high-value opportunity at that — and we’re doing it for three reasons:

→ Impact: We want to support an organisation that can use foresight to make better decisions, but wouldn’t normally prioritise or be able to access this kind of work.

→ Practice: We want to test a new strategic foresight process format that combines several frameworks and tools (new and old) we’ve been developing and refining. As part of a capstone project in the TAIDA process and on the back-end of research into how to best do foresight for strategy.

→ Learning in the open: In full transparency, we also want to turn the project into a public best-practice case that others can learn from and be inspired by.

What it is

A short, structured foresight + strategy project delivered as three virtual half-day workshops, with light work and synthesis in between.

• Format: Virtual, live workshops (on-site workshops will come with a travel fee)
• Participants: Minimum 4, up to 20 per workshop
• Cadence: One workshop per month of March, April, May (with time in between for reflection, synthesis, and decisions)

We’ll be looking to address a focal question that you face on a strategic level. This does not need to be perfect before you apply, we can define it together early in the process.

The three phases

1. Environmental Scanning & Analysis

(mid-Feb to mid-March)

We build a shared outside-in picture of change:

• What’s shifting around you, what matters, and why
• Key factors like trends, and uncertainties tied to your context
• A prioritised set of “what we should pay attention to”

Workshop 1 on Trend Analysis happens in this window.

2. Scenario Study

(mid-March to mid-April)

We develop a small set of plausible futures to stress-test your direction:

• Scenario logic and multiple future scenarios
• Implications for your organisation
• Early warning signs to monitor

Workshop 2 on Scenario Building happens in this window.

3. Strategy Development + Action

(mid-April to mid-May)

We translate the insights into choices and next steps:

• Opportunities and threats
• Strategic options and priorities
• A simple action plan for what to do next

Workshop 3 on Strategy Development happens in this window.

What you’ll get

• A light yet rigorous strategic foresight process with a reputable strategic foresight consultancy with experience across Fortune 500, (inter)governmental agencies, NGOs, SMEs and academia.
• A clarified strategic focus question and decision frame
• A prioritised set of trends/forces shaping your environment