We offer a futures intelligence, trends research tool and knowledge management portal that helps organizations better anticipate what's next through collaborative foresight and satisfies their increasing hunger for ingenuity.

Collaborative foresight:
No-one can predict the future yet we all make plans based on our assumptions and desires. Making plans in a changing and complex environment is a little like being the captain of a ship faced with uncertain weather and variable seas. Yet, he still puts to sea in pursuit of his desires. But, despite the daunting prospects and just like the captain, if we know where we want to go we can chart a course, navigate with our compass, use our lookouts weather eye and trim our sails to make the best of the changing conditions.

That's what we do on your and our members and clients behalf: we chart the future, provide a compass, help you set your sails, identify weak signals, emerging trends, tipping points and surprises through our many weather eyes so that you can make adjustments to your sailing plan at the right time.

Who uses us?:
Our members and clients know the value of keeping a weather eye. Corporations, not for profits and government agencies extensively use our services. Clients come from organizations as diverse as:

'Agriculture, Consultancy, Chemicals, Energy, Entertainment, Financial Services, Government, Health, Professional associations, Retail and Telecommunications.'

Our members' roles cover:

'Trend watching, Strategic Planning, Risk assessment, Opportunity scanning, Innovation and Knowledge management, Marketing, Advertising, Foresight and Change management.'

Our services:
Our Internet-based service provides thousands of links to the relevant websites of the:

• futurist community
• strategists
• change masters
• research organizations

This makes the service the most comprehensive, in-depth single source website for foresight, perspective, innovation and risk management anywhere in the world.

We were the pioneers of this type of service and remain the leader in this field through continual development of our capabilities.

We offer the same service as private sites, designed by our clients, to meet their planning needs. We therefore have the skills, knowledge and experience of working with substantial clients (e.g. Nokia, BP, Bosch) and small ones too. All benefit from the sharing of next practice with each other through their contribution to developing the service.

The system
The system comprises of five services, Scan, Plan, Act, Network and Direct. Each can be purchased by individual members using our public service, or by clients wanting an own branded, private system. Users (both members and clients) can purchase single annual licenses or subscribe for multi-licenses at reducing seat costs as numbers grow. Network and Direct are free to use.

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