Expert x AI Horizon Scanning

At Next Up, we deliver foresight mapped to your future horizons

Horizon 1

Signals impacting your current
business operations

Horizon 2

Signals impacting
delivery of your current strategy

Horizon 3

Signals impacting your
long-term growth potential

Expert x AI Horizon Scanning

At Next Up, we deliver foresight mapped to your future horizons

Horizon 1

Signals impacting your current
business operations

Horizon 2

Signals impacting
delivery of your current strategy

Horizon 3

Signals impacting your
long-term growth potential

Horizon SCANNING
across supply & Demand

Our holistic scanning evaluates the future shifts and signals with most impact for your organisation. And for a 360 view on what you need to navigate, we scan supply and demand, across three horizons.

With your own foresight lens that combines the best of deep human expertise, AI scanning and our partnership eco-system, you can confidently plan for the future.

EDGE THINKERS NETWORK

Embryonic, overlooked or fast-moving signals don’t always sit in data sets or published work that can be scanned. They are taking shape in expert minds and conversations in different corners of the world.

Feeds from a global network of human, ‘edge’ thinkers are also central to our horizon scanning. Inputs from 50+ handpicked specialists who span the fields of private equity through to psychology and sustainability through to deep tech ensure you don’t get stuck in a foresight filter bubble.

AI-POWERED HORIZON SCANNING

WE DEPLOY THE LATEST ai tools in Foresight TO:

Automate global, holistic signal discovery and tracking

Build custom-made foresight models that clash human and AI perspectives

Fast-track activation with interactive foresight tools updated in real time

Automate global, holistic signal discovery and tracking

Build custom-made foresight models that clash human and AI perspectives

Fast-track activation with interactive foresight tools updated in real time

AI-POWERED HORIZON SCANNING

KEY PARTNER

PARTNERSHIP-LED FORESIGHT

In a complex world, with different potential futures, no one expert has all the answers you’ll need to plan for success. To best meet the needs of each brief, we combine our foresight expertise with a range of partners, who are leaders in their field, to help clients decode what really matters, why and how to act.

Working with key partners Control Risks and Oxford Economics, you can be confident of holistic expertise across the future signals that matter and an action plan across:

Geo-Politics

Global Economics

Consumer Demand

Technological Advances

Sustainability

For more information on our joint, tri-agency foresight model offer, please get in touch

SHAPING YOUR FUTURE

Acting on foresight for organisational change

Understanding what lies ahead is one thing. Acting collectively to shape the future of your organisation is much harder.

We’ll work with you to activate foresight and, crucially, help stakeholders to keep the future front of mind. An implementation programme, tailored to your culture, will:

Ensure priority areas of strategic opportunity and risk are addressed
Stimulate cross-functional use of foresight to optimise internal connectivity and impact
Embed foresight culture, processes, practices and skill-sets business-wide