Unlock future business potential
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.
Beyond off-the-shelf
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 beyond traditional off-the-shelf forecasting.
Our multidisciplinary strategic design capabilities enable us to translate insights and opportunities into tangible, future-facing experiences, products, and services that deliver on identified potential and ensure clear market differentiation at speed.
We're here to help you with
- Horizon scanning and trend analysis
- Future consumer behavior 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
The business advantage of strategic 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.
Create
Develop experiences, products, and services from a solid understanding of what will bring you a strong future market position and clear relevance to withstand the inevitable changes in your industry.
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.
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.
Pioneers in envisioning futures
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 to tailor each project to your needs.
Why Manyone?
Here are the main reasons why Manyone should be your partner on your Foresight journey:
Triangulation of research
We do comprehensive research, and we ensure the validity of our findings through three distinct research activities: primary and secondary research, expert interviews, and data mining. This approach enables us to identify solid trends and insights across the board and to prove their relevance and potential.
Bespoke collaboration
All our projects use a strong foresight and methodological backbone, but we always tailor our way of working to our clients’ specific needs. We believe in creating long-lasting impact through bespoke outcomes and a collaborative approach to foresight – off-the-shelf foresight work can’t capture the nuances of your organization, nor can it translate insights into unique future potentials for you.
Future experiences
We know how to turn future potential into actionable solutions. Our world-class and full-bracket design capabilities enable us to turn identified opportunities and future visions into tangible experiences at speed. In every collaboration, we use our design capabilities to make the complex engaging and identify and design innovative future offerings.
Applied AI
We embrace technology and its potential, consistently exploring its benefits to our foresight practice. We promote the responsible use of AI for identifying themes and trends, synthesizing data, and drafting insights to enhance creativity and speed.
Global and local
Manyone's global presence enables us to identify and grasp local tendencies and worldwide patterns effectively. Our multidisciplinary team identifies global trends and local nuances, and they understand their unique impacts across locations.
Organizational change
We consistently analyse and assess expected business implications and the organizational relevance of gained insights. By applying a collaborative approach to foresight, we also integrate and disseminate foresight within your organization to ensure stakeholder activation, build new ways of working, and foster a collective understanding of the value of foresight.
Featured results
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 this landscape, Manyone supported Novo Nordisk with 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.
Global FMCG brand
Greater visibility for futures storytelling
For a worldwide market leader in the food and beverage industry, we supported their dedicated foresight team in promoting greater internal visibility to ensure a 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.
Global home furnishing brand
Building a foresight foundation
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 validating and synthesizing the strategic findings that will enable the client to stay ahead in their industry.
Turning future potential into present action
Our foresight team can deliver a broad range of linked and stand-alone services, each with a considered approach specific to your business.
Manyone Futures RADAR
When you need to understand the future of your business, spot trends that may impact your strategies or open up new commercial opportunities.
Powered by AI, RADAR translates extensive data into unique trends and actionable insights tailored to your business and situation.
Horizon scanning and trend analysis
Systematically explore and identify the emerging trends, technologies, cultural shifts and potential disruptions that will shape the future of your offering and industry.
Future consumer behavior and insights
Delve into future-facing consumer behaviour, needs, and market changes through data-driven insights to guide your future strategies.
Opportunity mapping and strategic advisory
Identify and validate emerging opportunities in the market and provide strategic guidance on leveraging these for growth and competitive advantage.
Scenario and future vision creation
Develop and explore a range of possible future scenarios to help your organization understand and plan for potential futures and increase resilience. Prioritize and refine into validated, inspiring, and clear future visions.
Future-facing services and experiences
Identify and conceptualise future customer experiences. Building on future insights and strategic bets we help you design innovative products and services that resonate with your future market and future customer needs.
Strategic communication and dissemination
Clearly share the story and visualise the value and strategic outcomes of working with foresight to convey and share the potential impact it can have on your organization and for your stakeholders.
New ways of working
Develop a collective language, mindset, and toolbox to work with the future – ensuring that your organization is future-proofed and aligned with the value foresight work brings to your business.
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