- Anticipate trends, uncertainties & surprises
- Act on auto-generated scenarios
- Conduct fast competition analysis
LATEST HORIZON SCAN
THE METAVERSE WILL BE WORTH TRILLIONS
The market for the Metaverse could be between $8 trillion and $13 trillion by 2030, with total Metaverse users of around 5 billion. But getting to that market level is going to require infrastructure investment. Virtual worlds can be fun but, when it comes to money, it’s not fun.
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11 REALITIES OF 2030
If we could jump time and skip into 2030, what would it look like? To be honest, it would look a lot like 2022, except a few big changes to society and technology.
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LATEST HORIZON SCAN
UKRAINE/RUSSIA CRISIS: SUNFLOWER-LED GLOBAL PARADIGM CHANGE
UPDATED 25/03/22: The war in Ukraine has created a massive humanitarian crisis impacting millions of people, and shifting monetary policies around the world poses another major threat to the global economy.
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LATEST HORIZON SCAN
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT CRYPTO
Crypto is in its usual rollercoaster mode with bitcoin prices halving in January, but then it did the same in January 2021.
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LATEST HORIZON SCAN
CLIMATE ADVANCES
Many business people still feel like they don't know where to start when thinking about sustainability and climate change so Dennis Draeger, our research director, looks at climate change and the future after COP26.
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Horizon Scanning | Scenario Planning | Strategic Intelligence
Shaping Tomorrow is an innovative online horizon scanning and foresight service that provides organisations with scenario planning tools and strategic intelligence to inform policy, act on opportunities, mitigate threats and become more resilient to emerging change.
LATEST FORECASTS
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2022's food access issues could become 2023's global food shortage.
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2022's food access issues could become 2023's global food shortage Antonio Guterres.
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By 2050 half the world's population could be at risk of water stress.
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Global 5G subscriptions will pass the one billion milestone by the end of 2022.
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The global green hydrogen market could approach $6 billion by the end of the decade.
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The WHO's Jafari, is to stop the circulation of wild polio globally by the end of 2023.
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By the end of 2022, 65% of global organisations will have implemented a hybrid integration platform.
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Tesla will lose its title of the world's biggest EV maker by 2024.
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World governments have already signed up to SDG7 and pledged to end energy poverty by 2030.
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Toyota intend to have no fewer than 70 products across their global electrified portfolio by 2025.
- Publish instant futures reports
- Carry-out surveys & use design thinking
- Encourage participatory contributions
- Agility & resilience to emerging change
- Informed decision making
- Increased business performance
Horizon Scanning
Horizon scanning is a technique used to spot emerging trends, weak signals of change and wild cards. The results are often key to developing robust strategie and appropriate responses. We continuously scan ~100,000 reputable sources to find evidence of impending change which is instantly and automatically collated as summaries and visual dashboards.
Scenario Planning
In a rapidly changing world, organizations undertake scenario planning to manage uncertainty and build confidence as part of their efforts to become future-proof. By examining a variety of different scenarios and choosing which
Strategic Intelligence
Strategic Intelligence provides the necessary insight to make sense of the external forces that are causing the widespread and disruptive changes we are witnessing. It provides context and is used to help prevent organizations becoming blind-sided as a result of short-term thinking. The service enables medium and longer term planning and hence future-proofing.
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