Discussion, HorizonScanning, Integration, Workshop

Horizon Scanning: Implications

This online template is developed to facilitate discussions during your horizon scanning process. It can be used to identify needs that emerge if the drivers of change materialise and the potential implications.

Discussion, Exploration, Guide, HorizonScanning, Scenarios, Template

Futures Wheel

A visualisation of direct and indirect future consequences of drivers and events. A structured brainstorming on chains of “if, then” statements, from isolated signals to complex forecasts about possible futures.

Collaboration, Imagining, Scenarios, Template, Workshop

2×2 Matrix: Scenario Building

A scenario-building methodology to draft four different scenarios based on two key uncertainties and create plausible alternative stories about the future.

Collaboration, Scenarios, Sensemaking, Template, Workshop

Causal Layered Analysis

A sensemaking approach to creating futures. It consists of four levels of analysis: the surface understanding of an issue, the causes creating the situation, the perspectives shaping it and the underlying stories.

Discussion, DriverMapping, Exploration, Template, Workshop

Driver Mapping

This method is used to identify and prioritise the drivers having the biggest impact on the future. The toolkit contains a facilitation guide, a participant handout and a template to run your workshop.

Discussion, Game, Scenarios, Visioning

FutureCast

This workshop format takes participants through interactive rounds to respond to questions and trigger conversations about how the future might evolve during and after an electoral period.

Collaboration, Game, Scenarios, Sensemaking

Scenario Exploration System: The Future of Data Governance

A simulation game to navigate through several futures of data governance and facilitate a fun and dynamic discussion on the potential pathways of changes.

Analysis, DriverMapping, Scenarios, Scoping, Template, Workshop

Foresight For Systems Change

A training package to build knowledge, skills, and peer-to-peer learning. The programme has 4 modules: scoping, ordering, investigating implications and integrating insights from your futures and foresight project.

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