In times of global instability and polarisation, rapid technological changes, sustainability crises and massive value shifts, anticipatory thinking is the most crucial skill to understand the speed and impact of change.
At Manyone, we help you understand the changes shaping the future of your business. We enable you to identify the opportunities these changes bring by offering a design-driven and collaborative approach to foresight that delivers tangible strategic outcomes that go beyond traditional off-the-shelf forecasting.
Turning future potential into present action
Strategic Foresight is the craft of envisioning and shaping a better future through thoughtful analysis, imaginative scenario building, and the articulation of visionary future opportunities. It empowers you to make informed decisions in uncertain and complex environments.
Our multidisciplinary strategic design capabilities enable us to translate insights and opportunities into tangible, future-facing experiences, products, and services that delivers on identified potential and ensures clear market differentiation at speed.
Manyone Horizon
Elevate the impact of you Foresight practice with Manyone Horizon. Horizon is a living workspace and knowledge-sharing platform it enables our collaborative foresight methodology and simplifies the exploration of potential futures for your business. On Horizon, you will have your own dedicated space, where specific and exclusive signals related to a project can be created, shared, and monitored over time.
Why Foresight?
Anticipate
Stay ahead of the curve by anticipating, understanding, and adapting to the emerging trends and forces shaping your industry, your customers expectations, and the world around you.
Validate
Use foresight to identify and validate groundbreaking ideas and positions with a powerful outlook while knowing how to prepare for and deliver on the identified potential now and going forward.
Create
Develop experiences, products, and services from a solid understanding of what will bring you a strong future market position and clear relevance in order to withstand the inevitable changes in your industry.
Continue
Foster an organisational mindset that embraces and knows how to act upon change – ensuring that your organisation remains forward thinking and adaptable to future innovations, and continuous learning.
What we offer
Horizon scanning and trend analysis
Future consumer behaviour and insights
Opportunity mapping and strategic advisory
Scenario and future vision creation
Future-facing services and experiences
Strategic communication and dissemination
New ways of working
Why Foresight at Manyone?
Our foresight team brings more than a decade of pioneering experience from the field. With a track record of creating tangible outcomes and impact, our team works closely with you on tailoring each project to your needs.
Triangulation of research
Bespoke collaboration
Future experiences
Applied AI
Global and local
Organisational change
01
Exploring foresight
Discover what is changing in your landscape and beyond.
Scan and identify trends and signals of change
Outputs
Primary and secondary research
Expert perspectives
Collection of scan cards, signals and trends
Data validated trends
Consolidate and articulate future insights
Outputs
Major drivers of change
Future consumer behaviours
Future market insights
Data validated insights
02
Forming scenarios
Identify your future potentials and possible market position.
Explore potential future scenarios and visions
Outputs
Future scenarios and visions
Future customer journeys and experiences
Future industry landscapes
Unfold future opportunities, risks, and uncertainties
Outputs
Opportunity mapping
Risk and uncertainty spotting
Identifying areas of further interest
03
Crafting a response
Define your strategic bets and how to get there.
Articulate springboards and strategic bets
Outputs
Strategic springboards
Strategic bets for the future
Innovation pipeline
Define strategic roadmaps and blueprints to act upon
Outputs
Activation and ownership initiatives
Actionable roadmaps and blueprints
Dissemination and publications
Core Services
Our foresight team can deliver on a wide breadth of linked and stand-alone services, each with a considered approach specific to your business.
Horizon scanning and trend analysis
Future consumer behaviour and insights
Opportunity mapping and strategic advisory
Scenario and future vision creation
Future-facing services and experiences
Strategic communication and dissemination
New ways of working
Client outcomes
Novo Nordisk
Exploring the future of disease management
The future of diabetes management is undergoing a transformative shift driven by technology, innovation, and data-driven solutions. To stay ahead in the diabetes management landscape, Manyone supported Novo Nordisk with for a strategic foresight process. The result was a comprehensive knowledge library containing signals of change, trend analyses, and a strategic compass, forming a dynamic foundation for ongoing exploration into the future of managing diabetes with insulin.
What comes next
Futures storytelling
For a worldwide market leader in the Food and Beverages industry, we supported their dedicated foresight team in promoting greater internal visibility to ensure larger impact of their work within the organisation. Applying our design driven approach to foresight, and complemented by our team of brand designers, we worked with them to create a clear visual identity, a format for engaging futures storytelling and tools that could elevate their foresight work going forward.
Living futures
A foundation for home
For a global leader in home furniture, we collaborated on building a strong foresight foundation. Bringing our expertise within collaborative scanning and using our Horizon software, we worked on building a sustainable internal strategic foresight platform, and we also supported with validating and synthesising the strategic findings that will enable the client to stay ahead in their industry.
Ready to envision your future?
Ditte Graa Wulff
Head of Foresight Team
ditte.wulff@manyone.com
+45 29910491
Reach out today, and we'll be happy to tell you much more about our approach, experience, and client results.