At the recent Innovation Roundtable event in Paris, my colleague Panu Kause and I hosted two discussions with leaders working across strategy, innovation, foresight, risk, and transformation:
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A recent Futures Finland discussion on how AI is changing futures work raised a familiar question for many futurists: What actually changes when AI enters the foresight process?
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Over the past year, many teams working in strategy, innovation, and foresight have started experimenting with generic AI tools and large language models.
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In my previous post, I described a pattern I see often: foresight work that is active, structured, even high quality, and yet, it doesn’t lead to better decision when ignored. In this one, I’ve tried to go deeper into how we could move from foresight data into futures knowledge, as knowledge becomes part of decision-making when produced and used together.
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Is your foresight stuck in handoffs? Do your leaders make strategic decisions based on the past? Let's get back to basics for a bit.
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I keep hearing the same concern from foresight, strategy, and innovation leaders: expectations go up, headcount does not.
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If your foresight output lives in one “final_v7” slide deck and five spreadsheets, you are probably not behind on thinking. You are behind on system.
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When multiple people contribute to foresight and you are still running it in decks and spreadsheets, alignment quietly becomes your full-time job.
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In many strategy conversations, someone eventually says something like: “The future of our industry is clearly heading toward X.” At that moment, something subtle happens in the room. The conversation narrows. The discussion shifts toward confirming that one direction. Alternatives quietly disappear and we start to assume one option for the future.
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