Shape your future

We are a strategic foresight consultancy

Clients partner with us to shape their future by optimising opportunity and building resilience. ​

Shape your future

We are a strategic foresight consultancy

Clients partner with us to shape their future by optimising opportunity and building resilience. ​

our mission: to democratise the power of foresight

UNLOCK GROWTH WITH FORESIGHT
Has the route to growth ever felt so uncertain or complex? Is your current revenue model right for 2030? Effective strategic foresight will help you to understand potential futures for your organisation, remove blind spots, and build for success. Companies with a systematic foresight process are 33% more profitable and have a 200% higher market capitalisation growth*. If you want to unlock future success through foresight, Next Up can accelerate your journey, whatever your ambition.
* Rohrbeck, R. and Kum, M. E. (2018).

our mission: to democratise the power of foresight

Has the route to growth ever felt so uncertain or complex? Is your current revenue model right for 2030? Effective strategic foresight will help you to understand potential futures for your organisation, remove blind spots, and build for success. Companies with a systematic foresight process are 33% more profitable and have a 200% higher market capitalisation growth*. If you want to unlock future success through foresight, Next Up can accelerate your journey, whatever your ambition.
* Rohrbeck, R. and Kum, M. E. (2018).

THE FUTURE YOU WANT

  Create impact with foresight

Are you shaping your next five-year strategy, looking to transform early innovation or be more resilient against emerging risks? Do you want to drive a more foresight-oriented mindset in your business?

Together, we define the future you want and a route to it through a three-step approach:

  1. Diagnose: for a process designed around your ambitions and challenges
  2. Define: distilling potential futures and prioritising where to focus to realise your aims
  3. Deploy: turning foresight into ongoing action and progress towards your goals

PRIORITISING ACTION

PRAGMATIC SPECIALISTS APPLYING FORESIGHT

Our expert x AI-powered methodology ensures we fast-track delivery of your unique lens on the future, to focus time and energy on driving action and commercial results.

Our targeted approach maximises the value of foresight for your business through:

  • Building your foresight tools and systems and optimising their impact by nurturing the mindset needed to engage with and shape the future
  • Deploying deep-subject matter expertise from our edge thinker network and partners at Control Risks and Oxford Economics to guide decision making and strategic initiatives

EXPERT x AI HORIZON SCANNING

Expert human inputs x the latest AI foresight tools give you the essentials. First, a view of critical and potential shifts in supply and demand impacting your strategy. Plus, specialist interpretation of their combined impacts and how to act.
Our ecosystem is designed to fast-track your future action plan.

AI-POWERED HORIZON SCANNING: automated, real-time signal detection and tracking is clashed with human expertise for the most robust and relevant view of the future.

EDGE THINKERS NETWORK: over 50 specialists flag early or overlooked signals and provide subject matter expertise.

PARTNERSHIPS: specialist expertise e.g. in economics, geopolitics, is applied to your questions to fully decode a complex landscape.

CENTRAL FORESIGHT MODEL: our existing analysis of critical shifts and signals accelerates your custom view.

Our Services

To help you transform strategy and innovation with a consistent focus on the future, we can support you through a range of services – drawing on our network of edge thinkers and expert partners, as needed.

Horizon Scanning & Holistic Signal Models

Giving you consistent clarity about what lies ahead and how to act to optimise growth and resilience.

Scenario Analysis & Planning

Helping you plot a path to your preferred future through scenarios that could accelerate or disrupt your strategy.

Innovation Hunting Grounds

Defining spaces into which you can diversify or pivot for future growth, leveraging critical signals of change.

Thought Leadership

Differentiating you and your vision of the future for your sector, category, customer market through bespoke platforms, reports and whitepapers.

Foresight Training

Helping your organisation to embrace and create value from a foresight-focused mindset.

Workshops & Events

Foresight implementation and immersion designed for your culture and ambitions.

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