ACT Foresight Framework
Our 3-step approach designed to guide you from foresight to action
ACT ensures foresight translates into impactful decisions and drives meaningful change. The process, based on principles of open exploration, co-creation, engagement, iteration, and relevance, ensures foresight translates into impactful decisions and drives meaningful change. Throughout our ACT Foresight Framework, the emphasis is on the process of transforming present-day decisions and actions to navigate complexity, innovate proactively, and shape the futures.
ANTICIPATE
Explore the futures through
signals & scenarios
CREATE
Craft new strategies,
innovations, or visions
TRANSFORM
Turn foresight into
meaningful action
The steps
Anticipate
At the early stage, the focus is on open exploration of future possibilities.
By scanning the horizon for emerging trends and challenges, organizations can identify a spectrum of potential futures.
This phase encourages a broad perspective, co-creation and ideation, laying the groundwork for a culture where questioning the norm and embracing uncertainty are key to uncovering innovative opportunities.
Anticipation is about shifting from reacting to the future to actively shaping it through informed decisions.
Create
With insights from the anticipation stage, together we transition to co-creation and iterative development.
This phase is about moving beyond traditional paradigms to forge new strategies, visions, or innovations that are resilient and adaptable.
It's here that you define your aspirations, translating foresight into concrete strategic initiatives.
The essence of this stage is integrating future insights into present-day strategies, ensuring the organization remains agile and relevant in a constantly changing world.
Transform
The culmination of the ACT approach is about making the envisioned future a reality.
We seek to broadly engage the organization in the implementation of change, ensuring that the strategic vision is woven into the fabric of the organization's culture and operations. A continuous process of adaptation, innovation, and impact measurement..
The Transform phase is about embedding the future into the present, making strategic foresight a dynamic driver of everyday decisions and actions.
It goes without saying that all of this is highly iterative and tailored to the individual organizational need.
ANTICIPATE Compass
Our guiding principles for futuring meaningfully.
At ANTICIPATE, we believe the futures are not something that just happen—we actively need to understand and shape them.
The ANTICIPATE Compass sets the guiding principles for how we approach foresight, helping us create futures that are more thoughtful, inclusive, and impactful.
Empowering
Use our agency to take action and empower others to shape the futures.
Imaginative
Encourage creative thinking about the futures, both individually and collectively.
Experiental
Create immersive experiences that make future possibilities feel real and relatable
Diverse
Include multiple perspectives equally and recognize everyone sees the world differently
Inquisitive
Always question and challenge ideas and assumptions to stay open to new possibilities.
Value-driven
Respect current values while staying open for values to evolve as we shape the futures.
Responsible
Be mindful of future planet, society, generations, and ourselves
Actionable
Do everything to make sure that structured futures thinking leads to concrete actions today.