Partner with IFTF
2020 brought profound and unexpected changes to every aspect of life—the deadliest pandemic in a century, Great Depression levels of unemployment and economic strife, global protests for racial justice, the rise of authoritarianism in democratic nations, and the dire circumstances of increasing climate change. We’re in a new world, one in which the fundamental foundations that organizations have stood upon for years are transforming before our eyes.
In 2021, IFTF Vantage is dedicating its research toward helping foresight professionals working inside organizations understand and better prepare for what happens next.
Our research for 2021 focuses on three critical questions:
How can organizations anticipate and shape the new foundations of the emerging operational environment? To help you position your organization’s strategic efforts within this extreme and ever-shifting landscape, we will map social innovations and technological enablers across a set of foundational challenges.
How can organizations adapt to a destabilized climate by building a green economy? Our map of the decade will deconstruct climate change into a series of critical challenges and look across a set of industries—including food, health, communications, manufacturing, and retail—to identify and forecast emerging opportunities to respond, adapt, and build “climate positive” organizations.
How can organizations use new foresight tools and approaches to turn optimistic visions into pragmatic actions? We will continue to build out and share IFTF Vantage’s Toward Future Readiness: A Playbook for Building Foresight Capacity by adding new foresight tools, techniques, and practical approaches for 1) developing and engaging with optimistic futures, 2) shaping your longer-range planning efforts with backcasting, and 3) managing complex interconnected transitions using transition design, an emerging field that brings together techniques from foresight, design, and systems thinking.
Together, we’ll explore these three critical questions and more throughout this year via a series of collaborative exchanges, deep-dive reports, and our annual interactive Ten-Year Forecast 2021 Summit.
2021 Research Deliverables
Map of the Decade: Emerging Climate Opportunities 2031
Adapt and build a “climate positive” organization.
IFTF’s 2021 Map of the Decade will highlight a range of industries and sectors to provide a comprehensive view of emerging opportunities for building “climate positive” organizations in the next ten years.Best Practices for Future Ready Organizations
Make your organization stronger and more resilient.
This comprehensive view of the best practices of leading future-ready organizations includes interviews with global foresight leaders and a practical set of applied models and frameworks—such as optimistic futures, backcasting, transition, and design futures—to help link your organization’s long-term view with metrics of success.New Foundations of the Operational Environment
Position your strategic efforts within a changing landscape.
A new visual tool plus companion report maps social innovations and technological enablers across a set of foundational challenges: evidence, collaboration, belonging, ownership, security, and meaning.
Additional Partner Benefits
IFTF Future Factors: Emerging Signals Platform
Signals-driven planning and a powerful network.
This new, partner-only offering combines a rich trove of real-time signals-scanning with a moderated futures thinking community to help you navigate market volatility and develop world-ready strategies.IFTF Vantage Point: Cutting-Edge Strategic Foresight
Leverage current research, foresight, and community collaboration.
With prioritized, year-round access to exclusive, frequently-updated futures intelligence and insights via our partner-only online community, IFTF Vantage partners enjoy a collaborative, comprehensive view of future forces directly affecting their organizations.IFTF Foresight Guide
Enjoy the attention of an IFTF expert.
Your Foresight Guide is an IFTF researcher who brings trend-tracking expertise to develop your strategic priorities. Throughout the partnership, this valuable adviser helps you navigate and optimize the partnership’s robust offerings.Ten-Year Forecast Summit
A guided journey through the forces that will shift your industry.
Partners receive tickets to IFTF’s annual Ten-Year Forecast Summit. For over 38 years, IFTF has immersed world-leading participants, futurists, researchers, and experts in a highly engaging experience of the coming ten-year horizon. Each immersive summit emphasizes how you can help your organization prepare for what’s to come.
IFTF Vantage:
Transform valuable foresight into actionable insight.
Organizations that will thrive in the future will be those that foresee game-changing threats and counterintuitive opportunities to lead. Your investment in IFTF Vantage means an alliance that uniquely equips you to translate opportunities and imperatives into actions. By partnering with IFTF, you’ll be preparing yourself and your organization for the future.
IFTF Vantage:
Prepare now with the insight and tools for lasting transformation.
Institute for the Future (IFTF) is the world’s leading futures organization. Its signature program, IFTF Vantage harnesses more than 50 years of IFTF’s global forecasts and pioneering research to help its partners navigate global volatility, and turn urgent foresight into actionable, near-term insight for your organization.
The IFTF Vantage partnership isn’t a monthly report in your inbox. It’s expert intelligence and proven insights gathered from IFTF’s diverse research labs. It’s guidance based on five decades of experience and the collective knowledge of a forward-thinking network. And it’s trusted, real-time expertise that alerts your organization to hidden hazards and aligns it with emerging opportunities.
Partner with us for 2021 and beyond
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