FutureWorld is a global network of business practitioners.
We help organizations understand their future business context, choose their ideal future and fast-track its creation.
Through our powerful insights and unique communications we help clients create new businesses
and step-change operational transformation - out of the box, straight to the bottom line.
Your future is increasingly determined by the quality of your thinking today!
Are you ready to join us on this journey? If not now, when?
We call this Strategic Thinking & Strategic Action process 'Phase 0', the start of the overall
process leading from Strategic Thinking to Strategic Execution. It is typically an on-going
process in an organization in which the executive team spends up to 10% of their time
understanding the future.
Strategy is not what you do in the future, but what you do today to choose your future.
Strategic Thinking and Strategic ActionTM is a facilitated and tailored in-company
programme for the top executive team, that may cover three to twelve months.
This is a proven, powerful and inspirational way to build a step-change strategy that fully
incorporates all of the characteristics of the future business context – rather than being an
extrapolation of current and past experience.
FutureWorld links a team of world-best practitioners, drawn from our large network of gurus,
clients and academic leaders to create a series of powerful briefings on the future of business,
technology, consumers, media and the world in which we will have to compete – creating powerful
'action scenarios' that prompt questions and debates about future choices.
This culminates in a three-day 'Indaba' that converges around developing the chosen future state,
describing its characteristics and asking "What did we do back then to get here today?"
Objective:
- To create a culture of 'learning from the future' amongst the strategic leadership team
and an understanding of the context within which strategic decisions about the future
need to be made.
- It's an on-going process of 'learning from the future' – not a once-off strategic thinking
exercise. The briefings are led and facilitated by FutureWorld's network of gurus – proven
practitioners in their field.
- This is not about 'the theory of the future' – in our view, strategy is about what you
can do today to choose your future. With understanding, you can design and create your
future.
Key deliverables:
- Shared view of the 'chosen future' for the organization, plus identification of the key
strategic actions.
- An aligned leadership team with a shared ‘memory of the future’ – a team that is committed
to breakthrough innovation and perfect execution.
- A common understanding of the organization's 'Business of the Future' and a context for
kick-starting the implementation and execution process.
FutureWorld is renowned for its powerful keynote presentations and workshops to help our clients
learn from the future; - they are uniquely visual communications targeted at the world's top
executives.
FutureWorld's network observes trends that are shaping business, industries and markets (such as
globalization, new management thinking, new work styles and emerging technologies) – in this sense
we are business anthropologists.
From these trends, we synthesize key business messages from the flood of new phenomena occurring
around the world. We create powerful communication vehicles for business executives to create the
context for continued relevance in future markets. We help our clients truly understand the future.
All of our themes can be delivered
in a variety of formats, from one hour keynote presentations, through half-day seminars, or one-day workshops.
We continually update and revise each theme, thanks to the efforts of individual Gurus
who work with clients to understand their specific context. Every product and service we deliver is unique,
adapted to a lesser or greater degree for each context.
Our gurus are available for all forms
of engagements, including business breakfasts, launches, client briefings, conferences, business school lectures, etc.
All of our Gurus are business leaders and world
class speakers. We are passionate about providing our clients with the highest levels of professional,
multimedia-driven communications, tailored to meet their specific requirements – and to provide insights
and advice they didn't expect!
FuturesForum LIVE!
FuturesForum LIVE! is a customized package of FutureWorld keynotes and/or workshops with
themes selected by the client.
Under the FuturesForum LIVE! banner, these inputs are delivered within the context of a corporate subscription - an
on-going programme that delivers new thinking about the future operating context for business, in multiple locations
of your choice, at intervals you select. New themes are released at regular intervals, and FuturesForum LIVE! Corporate
Members have first-choice access to these, plus full access to the FutureWorld knowledge base, and a corporate subscription
to MindBullets.
Each Corporate Membership is tailored to specific client requirements.
To support our Strategic Thinking philosophy, FutureWorld has developed a series of online Scorecards that
can be used as is or tailored to specific client requirements.
The Information Age Scorecard
The Information Age Scorecard is a unique tool enabling business leaders to see how prepared the
company is for the future - how ready they are to compete against new competitors that are radically
reshaping the rules of business.
Fractal Corporation Corporate Scorecard
In an increasingly fragmented and interconnected world companies will have to adapt their
hierarchical history to the needs of the new marketplace. The Fractal Corporation is the
networked corporate model of the future.
The Fractal Corporation Scorecard analyses current realities across seven dimensions, asks
participants about their ideal future state and gives indications of the differences
between the two.
It is an ideal starting point for supporting a major change initiative towards a more
networked fractal organization.
Our weekly email newsflashes from the future are a tool to help our clients learn from the future,
and stay in touch with the latest trends and thinking in the FutureWorld network.
You can subscribe at an individual or corporate level.
With a corporate subscription and your staff can have direct access to these newsflashes,
detailed analysis and synthesis plus links to further reading. Also included in the corporate
membership is direct access to the historic data base of
MindBullets: News from the Future™ –
an ideal research tool for anyone involved in strategic thinking and decision-making, or
just for fun!
The above offerings create an aspiration and context for future quantum growth. To build
the Business of Tomorrow while optimizing the Business of Today.
The next logical step is to turn Strategic Thinking into Strategic Action and Strategic Execution – to deliver on the promise of innovation & quantum growth.
We call these next steps Phase 1 to 3. Click here to follow a typical process.