Taming An Uncertain Future

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Taming An Uncertain Future

First and foremost, we hope you are well and finding ways to stay safe and productive. The coronavirus and COVID-19 outbreak have derailed a lot of plans—including some of our own—but change is our business and we are adapting. To that point, we want to help you adapt as well.

Analysts and pundits have produced an avalanche of forecasts for what life will be like going forward. It stands to reason, as everyone is trying to make sense of what is happening and what could happen. Instead of adding to this noise, we decided to help people understand these forecasts for the post-coronavirus world—to learn to detect what could truly change, versus what’s likely to fade along with the virus—with a guide to evaluating forecasts. You can find it here. We hope that it helps with your sense-making.

More than a decade ago, some of our partners wrote about how the world was overdue for a pandemic. Impacts of an outbreak we forecast included:

Rationing of resources
Overwhelmed health services
Panic buying
Economic disruption
Cocooning
New delivery options
Expansion of telework
Decline in tourism
Closing of restaurants and other retail

As futurists, we are often asked about what we got right. In this case, we are sad about how right we were.

The other question we face frequently is “What can we do?” As you start to plan for the next six, 12, 24 months, you will need a strong foresight base on which to build your strategy—and that is where we can help.

Foresight Alliance has a suite of services and tools that we can deploy to help you in exploring myriad potential futures being created by the COVID-19 outbreak. These include:

Environmental scanning and research
Scenario development
Exploration of emerging issues
Visioning
Identification of discontinuous change areas
Strategy
Training / education
Foresight maturity assessment

Of course, all of this can be delivered remotely. As a company that has operated remotely for a decade, it’s in our DNA.

You can’t get to where you want to go without a map, and Foresight Alliance can be your strategic partner in drawing this map. Working in partnership with our clients, we explore and uncover the external forces that drive internal change. We can work with you to make sense of today, in order to help you build a solid, post-pandemic future.

Please feel free to reach out to us at 202.525.7193 or Hello@ForesightAlliance.com, or visit us at www.ForesightAlliance.com, even if it is just to talk through some of the problems that have you worried. We’re good listeners.