Strategic Foresight Services

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Work with our Strategic Foresight team to elevate your brand, increase awareness and spark innovation

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Why Strategic Foresight?

Disruptive times require daring and challenging thinking – which is why many leading businesses partner with The Future Laboratory when looking to stand out

Foresight Strategy

Work with us to position your business as a powerful thought-leader, secure hard-to-land headlines and develop award-winning content

Lead change – explore The Future Laboratory’s foresight services.

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Future Forecasting

Assure your future by using our Future:Poll™ data, expert analysis and an internationally recognised strategic foresight approach to identify opportunity, define innovation and mitigate risk

Future-proof your business with The Future Laboratory today.

Work with us to:

Leverage Change. Define Different. Build Advantage.

How We Deliver Strategic Foresight

Our strategic foresight services unleash future-fit intelligence that creates value and fuels innovation. We work across a range of sectors, serving the needs of your business.
  • Category and Markets Research

    Our tailored, data-rich reports solve business challenges, provoke thinking, fill knowledge gaps and uncover new market opportunities

  • Thought-leadership

    Commission a report to position your business as an authority, connecting your expertise with market intelligence for top-tier media and prospects

  • Visualised Research Decks

    Our research decks help your team envisage the future with insights, case studies and stats. Presented by our speakers or shared directly

  • Futures Presentations

    Our multimedia presentations show how future trends, markets and consumer insights apply to your brand, enabling your teams to act confidently

  • Futures Scenario-Planning

    Using unique scenario-planning, we map future business forces, validate hypotheses and create inspiring scenarios for decisive action

  • Foresight Frameworks™

    Embed strategic foresight in your organisation with a bespoke Foresight Framework™, guiding decisions and harnessing trends to become future-ready

Sectors

We collaborate across sectors to gather global intelligence and insights, ensuring our strategic foresight and trend analysis are shaped by real consumer behaviours, not confined by industry boundaries.

Case Studies

Our proprietary methodology has been honed over the past 20 years – with some of the best and most disruptive brands globally – so we have the skills, insight and experience to help you chart the next two decades and beyond.

  • Human Needs

    Static and universal needs, based on a value system that supports human nature’s physical and emotional programming

  • Global Drivers


    The shifting social, technological, economic, environmental and political landscape reshaping the world we live in, affecting everyone and everything

  • Value Shifts

    Consumers’ changing attitudes and behaviour – a reaction to their contemporary context

  • Macrotrends


    The cultural manifestations of new and emerging attitudes worldwide

  • Microtrends


    Influential short-term signals indicated by innovation

  • Implications

    Future implications for brand and business growth

ImplicationsToday18 Months to 3+ YearsMicroTrends3-5+ YearsMacro TrendsChanging PrioritiesValue Shifts10+ YearsGlobal DriversHumanNeeds

What our clients say

bmw

‘Fantastic virtual presentation! Thank you for sharing insights into how brand outreach is transforming with digital at the core of this outreach. That was a truly inspirational talk’

Afterpay

‘The Afterpay Gen Z Financial Feels report has exceeded our expectations in terms of use/insights across the business, in addition to media coverage generated globally’

bacardi

‘Your presentation messages reverberated through the day and into the evening during our Leaders Summit in Lisbon. Thank you again for a thought-provoking presentation’

Why we’re different

The Future Laboratory is a recognised leader in strategic foresight, not just through the unique wealth of data-driven insight we draw on from LS:N Global, but through our cross-sector expertise and polymath approach.

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This allows us to fuse ideas and make connections others fail to see. With strong vision and captivating storytelling, we engage you with the future and its intellectual, experiential, emotional and imaginative opportunities.

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Trends intelligence, research, and insights – on demand.  Actionable foresight across 20+ sectors.
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