Strategic foresight
See what's coming. Shape what's next
Use foresight to make better strategic choices before the market forces them on you.
We help leadership teams read early signals, understand what they mean for the business, and turn them into clear opportunities, decisions, and action.
Strategic foresight gives leaders a structured way to work with uncertainty
It helps you understand which shifts matter, where your business may be exposed, and where new value could emerge. From AI and technology change to customer behavior, sustainability, regulation, and new market dynamics, we connect the dots between what is changing outside the organization and what needs to happen inside it.
We combine horizon scanning, future visioning, scenario work, opportunity discovery, and AI-supported sensemaking to help teams move from “what might happen?” to “what should we do now?”
The outcome is practical: shared direction, sharper priorities, stronger innovation pipelines, and better decisions about where to invest, adapt, or lead.
When to bring us in
When uncertainty is slowing strategic decisions
We help structure the complexity, identify what matters, and turn weak signals into clear strategic implications.
When you need to define where future growth will come from
We help you explore plausible futures, identify new opportunity spaces, and shape future-facing products, services, ventures, and experiences.
When your organization needs a shared view of what’s next
We create the tools, narratives, and strategic artefacts that help leaders align, make decisions, and act with confidence.
Selected clients
A strategic compass for future funding
TrygFonden partnered with Manyone to build foresight capability and create a digital Strategic Futures Compass – helping guide long-term funding decisions and stakeholder dialogue around the future of work.
Accelerating sustainable business development
Aker Solutions worked with Manyone to explore future energy shifts and shape a practical, foresight-driven model for a new engineering consultancy venture.
Co-creating the future of public transport
Ruter partnered with Manyone to align stakeholders, infrastructure, and investment around a more sustainable transport system for Oslo.
What we offer
We connect future sensing, strategic interpretation, opportunity framing, and activation. Powered by AI where it adds speed and scale – and guided by human judgement, creativity, and business relevance.
Horizon scanning & trend intelligence
See change early and understand what it means. We scan, structure, and interpret signals across markets, technologies, culture, regulation, and customer behavior – turning information overload into useful strategic intelligence.
Expertise includes:
Signal scanning and weak-signal detection
Trend research and synthesis
Market, technology, and category shifts
Future customer behavior and expectations
AI-supported research and sensemaking
Implication mapping for strategy and innovation
Future visioning & scenarios
Make the future concrete enough to discuss, challenge, and use. We develop scenarios, future narratives, and tangible artefacts that help leadership teams explore what could happen. And decide what to do next.
Expertise includes:
Scenario development
Future vision creation
Strategic foresight workshops
Future-back planning
Experience and service futures
Strategic storytelling and visualization
Opportunity discovery & strategic framing
Move from insight to direction. We identify where change creates business potential, frame AI and technology opportunities in commercial terms, and define the strategic choices needed to act.
Expertise includes:
Opportunity mapping
AI opportunity framing
Future growth territories
Innovation themes and concept platforms
Strategic prioritization
Future-facing products, services, and ventures
Foresight activation & capability building
Help foresight travel through the organization. We build the systems, tools, narratives, and ways of working that make future thinking part of decision-making – not a one-off report.
Expertise includes:
Foresight platforms and knowledge libraries
Strategic compasses and decision tools
Internal activation and dissemination
Leadership alignment
Foresight governance and rituals
Capability building and new ways of working
The artefact explains our strategy, gives us a tool to get into future-back mode, and is a sandbox which allows us to test new ideas and business models.
Mette Freisner Johansen
Senior Manager, Organizational Development
Aker Solutions
Related work
Client results
Trygfonden
Designing a strategic compass guiding future strategy and funding
- Strategic foresight
- Digital products & engineering
- Financial services
- Public and social impact
Aker Solutions
Accelerating business development with Futures Design
- Strategic foresight
- Launch & transformation
- Energy and industrial
Chiesi
Rethinking pharma's role over the next decade
- Strategic foresight
- Healthcare
- Pharma
Norwegian Directorate of Health
Tackling the escalating misuse of prescription drugs
- Strategic foresight
- Launch & transformation
- Healthcare
Ruter
Co-creating the future of Oslo's public transportation
- Strategic foresight
- Launch & transformation
- Transportation
- Public and social impact
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Insights from our experts
Product spotlight
Manyone RADAR
RADAR is our AI-powered futures research tool for translating large volumes of change signals into clear, actionable trends tailored to your business, market, or strategic challenge.
Spot trends and shifts that may impact your business
Identify new commercial opportunities early
Build a shared view of the future across teams
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Get in touch
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