Learn to anticipate emerging opportunities and create innovative digital solutions that lead market trends rather than follow them. Our hands-on workshops equip you with practical skills that deliver immediate business value.
Bridging Foresight with Practical Innovation
Our online workshops combine hands-on practice with expert guidance, transforming abstract futures thinking into concrete business outcomes. You'll learn to create digital products that address emerging market needs while developing the capabilities to consistently stay ahead of industry disruptions.
Develop the ability to anticipate market shifts and identify emerging opportunities before they become mainstream trends.
Create viable products and services 3x faster by leveraging AI tools to translate future insights into tangible prototypes that solve emerging needs.
Break down organizational silos and foster innovation through structured collaboration techniques that blend diverse perspectives into cohesive strategies.
Eight Transformative Modules for Future-Ready Leadership
Our comprehensive curriculum is designed to transform you from a traditional product thinker to a future-ready innovator. Each module combines theory with hands-on practice, culminating in tangible deliverables you can immediately apply to your organization.
Learn to identify and analyze emerging trends across multiple domains. Outcome: Create a trend radar for your industry with 15+ validated signals of change. (4 hours)
Develop alternative futures using strategic foresight methodologies. Outcome: Build a comprehensive set of strategic scenarios to guide product development. (6 hours)
Evaluate potential implications of future scenarios on organizations and industries. Outcome: Produce a strategic implications matrix to prioritize innovation opportunities. (4 hours)
Build quick prototypes to test future concepts using modern development tools. Outcome: Create functional prototypes of your concepts within hours, not weeks. (8 hours)
Apply agile methodologies to rapidly iterate based on feedback. Outcome: Establish a rapid testing framework that accelerates the validation cycle by 60%. (6 hours)
Integrate emerging technologies into practical applications. Outcome: Develop a technical roadmap that leverages AI, IoT or other relevant technologies. (8 hours)
Create compelling user experiences that address future needs and behaviors. Outcome: Design a future-ready customer journey that addresses emerging expectations. (6 hours)
Design innovative services and business models for future scenarios. Outcome: Develop a service blueprint and business model canvas for your future-oriented offering. (8 hours)
Join a Global Network of Future-Focused Innovators
Connect with our diverse community of 500+ professionals across 30+ countries. Gain access to exclusive events, collaborative projects, and networking opportunities with leaders in strategic foresight and innovation. Our alumni report an average of 40% increase in strategic confidence and future readiness within their organizations.
What Industry Leaders Say
Hear from experts in Strategic Foresight, Innovation, and Business Transformation
Applied Futures is more than just a foresight tool—it helps organizations navigate uncertainty by combining futures thinking with actionable strategies. It’s an approach that turns abstract scenarios into practical business decisions.
Design thinking focuses on solving current problems, but futures research prepares us for what doesn’t exist yet. Applied Futures successfully integrates both.
The framework enables teams to co-create the future rather than just reacting to it. It bridges the gap between speculative foresight and real-world implementation.
Applied Futures takes futures literacy beyond academic discussions and makes it a practical, everyday capability for organizations.
Futures research is often abstract, but Applied Futures makes it tangible. It provides a systematic way to integrate long-term thinking into day-to-day business strategy.
One of the biggest challenges in foresight work is making it relevant to decision-makers. Applied Futures provides a concrete, step-by-step approach to ensure future thinking leads to action.
Future scenarios often feel disconnected from business reality. Applied Futures changes that by focusing on participatory and hands-on methods that drive engagement.
The combination of futures studies and design thinking in the Applied Futures framework is powerful. It encourages a structured yet flexible approach to shaping future-ready strategies.
The Applied Futures approach fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, helping teams see beyond their silos and work towards shared, long-term visions.
Futures work is most effective when it’s systematic and ongoing. Applied Futures helps organizations embed futures literacy into their strategy in a sustainable way.
