Foresight Strategy Cockpit

The holistic all-in-one solution to manage foresight processes from trends to scenarios all the way to finalized strategies.

Holistic Foresight

The Foresight Strategy Cockpit is a web-based tool that allows companies and organisations to intelligently manage a holistic foresight process ranging from trends, risks and scenarios up to finalised strategies. Situational landscapes can be created based on real-time data and monitored easily.

Central aggregation of knowledge

Instead of working in silos, data and insights are structured and aggregated centrally by the FSC. Insights can be enriched with external knowhow, through survey-methods and quality content from our NEXUS database or by connecting APIs.

Wide range of Foresight Methods

The FSC empowers users to employ over 40 established methods and frameworks from futures studies to develop a systematic and professional approach to tackle your future.

Trend Communities Case Study

Starting point

As Foresight is slowly becoming an integral part of companies’ DNA, processes are shifting from a singular foresight unit to an open foresight culture. New challenges emerge as crowdsourced (bottom-up) approaches require new engagement points and digital infrastructure for seamless sharing of real-time information and active participation of employees company-wide.

Result and Value

Establishing foresight communities to get future relevant information faster across units and develop future skills necessary to set insights into action.

Our approach

4strat has been supporting companies in setting up a foresight knowledge management system together with crowd-based scouting of trends. For this purpose, the Foresight Strategy Cockpit, together with the FSC Add-On, is implemented and embedded into the internal company network structure.

The implementation will be accompanied by regular training sessions, which will take place both physically and via a digital learning platform. In addition, a trend community with internal employees is being established and strategically supported. This is based on the definition of various users and a data-driven methodology that includes the creation of detailed workflows, training and learning plans for employees’ competence development.

The results enable strategic management to make more robust decisions in the future. Common visualisations, such as the trend radar are also developed and visualised for this purpose.

Interested in building Trend Communities with us?

We are looking forward to hearing from you and discussing ideas.

Get in touch

What our clients say

Collette Logan Inter IKEA, Product Owner ICMI

“4strat masterfully facilitated a futures workshop on a complex topic for our organization. 4strat expertly guided a diverse group of co-workers with different perspectives, through a well-structured group futures-thinking workshop. The result was impactful! Not only did we achieve what we set out to achieve, which was to bring an outside-in perspective into our business decisions and plannings but also came away from the workshop more aware when concepting business decisions and strategies that they should stand the test of time. We hope to be able to collaborate with 4strat again on more initiatives.”

Dr. Nils Förster and Dr. Jan Wille Director and Partner at Strategy&

“Together with 4strat, we developed a user-friendly website with interactive dashboards that enable our customers to gain a new perspective on the technology-driven opportunities and challenges in the A&D industry. FSC helped us automate a variety of data sources, filter relevant technologies, and engage our experts in evaluating them. The 4strat team not only supported us in the methodological implementation, but also involved other experts from the 4strat network.”

Department Security Policy at the BMLV

“The FSC is an integral part of the BMLV's strategic foresight and also enables the connection of external knowledge carriers through its collaborative working method. The decision-making processes structured in the FSC are thereby substantially supported.”

Thomas Buchner R&D at SOS Kinderdorf

”The Foresight Strategy Cockpit is a very practical tool for collecting expert assessments. The competent and extremely fast support is also worthy of special mention!”

FSC Modules

Through strategic foresight methods such as Trend Management and Scenario Construction, we can reduce the complexity and uncertainty of a rapidly changing globalized world.

Fact Sheet

All-in-one Foresight platform for unlimited users
Modular and web-based system
Combines qualitative and quantitative data
Various data visualizations
Real-time data and expert integration
Online team collaboration
State-of-the-art technology and security standards
Supports teams of futurists and scouts for future knowledge aggregation

Overview of all Methods

You can download a complete list of our methods here.

Download

Reduce the amount of coordination and programs needed to manage trends and signals to a single software solution. Through a holistic aggregation of internal information, external expert knowledge and data-driven insights, every unit can collectively contribute to the assessment of relevant trends and their developments.

Learn more
Collaboratively discuss and rate ideas and other insights. New ideas can be easily created, edited and updated and if necessary, external knowledge can be included through survey methods.

Learn more
Monitor the stability and development of risks in VUCA environments and detect triggers and preventers for future crises.

Learn more
Establish and maintain a sustainable and efficient scenario management by including, linking and analysing all your organizational knowledge resources.

Learn more
Develop agile and future robust strategies and test them in different scenarios in order to be able to react quickly and appropriately to environmental changes.

Learn more
Rate, discuss and explore feedback in real-time: Our web-based Real-Time Delphi (RTD) is an established method from Future Studies which combines quantitative and qualitative expert data to gain new insights.

Learn more
Assign your technological know-how to business and market requirements, develop technology strategies and create tailor-made technology portfolios.

Learn more

Benefits

Together with our clients we develop individual strategy processes for your business and establish foresight within your organization.

Over 40 different implemented methods

Powerful extensions (App & Browser)

Yearly licensing model

Cloud or in-house solutions available

Add modules as needed to extend your individual strategic foresight process

Flexible pricing

Extensions

The FSC experience is extended by Apps and Add-Ons. Share relevant insights with your mobile or simply integrate new content to the FSC.

Add-on

The Add-On for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome allows an efficient scanning of news articles and blog posts through Environmental Scanning. Metadata of webpages, URLs and titles are automatically captured by the Add-On. Scouted information can be directly linked to trends, risk or ideas.

Scouting app

The Scouting App for Android and iOS enables users to scan and add information when they are on the move. You can also review information, trends, risks and other data aggregated by the system to browse while being away for your computer.