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How to build your future? With Foresight (prospective)

The prospective approach is ideal for anticipating the future, defining the company’s vision in the broadest sense, building a long-term strategy for a sector, a company or a territory and/or driving change. It will therefore helps with:

• ecosystem, drivers, actors mapping, phenomena and trends identification
• scenarios building for the possible futures

Foresight Definition

« Foresight is anticipation to inform present action (the decision) in the light of possible and desirable futures » as defined by Mr Godet.

Prospective Approach Steps

Let us start with setting the problem … and the questions to answer

Here again, it will be important to define the scope of the project in terms of theme, territory (geography and nature), temporality, objectives, … and, as for any project, in terms of budget and deadline.

Tme will come to choose an approach amongst the numerous ones: exploratory, strategic, visionary, procedural or prescriptive

As next step, we will carry out a state of play by identifying the actors and drivers of change. We will afterwards map them on a system, according to their degree of influence

We will conduct surveys of participants: experts, citizens, mixed group, … and as a result formulate hypotheses of evolution The collection of information can of course be carried out using various techniques: interview, questionnaire, workshop, … It is important to note that these are indeed hypotheses and not forecasts!

At this stage, we can build scenarios based on a heuristic, morphological, bifurcation method, … by thinking as broadly as possible and without constraints. By the way, Risk Management also adopts this approach to building scenarios with « worst case » and « best case » scenarios.

Among these futures, we will explore those that are possible and desirable.

Time has come to define strategic options

And to finally Lead Change!