Hi! I'm Chris

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Elevating your strategic thinking through the use of foresight and futures thinking is a key skill of the 21st century. It's my mission to help purposeful organisations build these skills, so that they can succeed in the face of uncertainty and disruption.

Here's how I can help you:

My flagship offering is Scenario Planning:

In this style of engagement, I will spend time with you and your stakeholders to thoroughly analyse key trends which are impacting you. Then we will develop a number of narrative scenarios which help us understand how these trends come together, and what they might mean in the future. Finally, we analyse the impacts of these trends on your current or future strategies and use this information to inform further strategy formulation.

These projects are fun, engaging, and are an innovative way to be better prepared for the future.

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Today's fast moving technology environment means that many organisations are not equipped to deal with such rapid change yet would benefit from taking advantage of what these technologies offer.

However, many of these technologies have significant privacy and ethical considerations that must be considered, even prior to a business case.

Through Constructive Disruption, I have extended the Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA) methodology used by government and academia, to develop a lightweight, policy-first, technology development framework. This ensures that important legal, regulatory and ethical concerns are designed-for from the beginning.

My experience as a Chief Information Officer for a leading not-for-profit means that I understand the challenges that arise from these initiatives, and how to overcome them.

A key component in ensuring success when working with strategic foresight and futures thinking, is to ensure that the organisation has a high level of integrative capacity. This is a measure of how well an organisation can ingest and adopt new information, such as new ways of doing things, or other innovations.

Even with a solid strategy, some organisations encounter the so-called "strategy/execution gap", which is often an indicator of a low integrative capacity rather than anything else.

To help organisations build this capability, I have designed a framework to help drive adoption of these skills, and also developed number of tools which complement each other by building different facets of this important skill.

Check out my future tools.

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I'm working on an innovative approach to strategy design and development.
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Dive deeper into key insights

These pivotal areas demand deeper exploration to better understand how futures thinking can help organisations overcome disruption and embrace their ideal future.

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Strategic foresight for not-for-profits

With more at stake and longer-term planning horizons, NFPs benefit greatly from futures thinking. But many don't know where to start. This section explores strategic foresight and how to get started.

Generative AI for mid-sized organisations

Go beyond the hype and explore how generative AI levels the playing field and how mid-sized organisations can take advantage of this transformative technology.

Evolution of futures thinking in business

As design thinking brought design out of the studio, futures thinking brings foresight out of academia, government and large enterprise for use by everyone.

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Read more insights from the blog:
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Bringing foresight scenarios to life with Generative-AI video

Understanding the fundamentals of futures thinking

November 30, 2023

The art of future thinking - how to develop a futures thinking mindset with the FUTURE framework

From forecasting to foresight: How to move beyond predictive analytics in strategy development

Using futures thinking to develop technology strategies for mission-based organisations

Why strategic foresight is crucial for long-term business success

The role of scenario planning in strategic decision making