At FIBRES, we’re all about making foresight as flexible and user-friendly as possible. With our new Radar manager feature, you can now create and customize your trend radars with ease—no need to reach out to support for adjustments! Whether you’re setting up a brand-new radar or refining an existing one, the Radar manager gives you full control over radar layouts and dimensions, allowing you to try different configurations and approaches to trend mapping.
Here's our latest update to FIBRES that we released on September 16th, 2024.
Trend radars: a clear visual overview of what’s ahead
Trend radars are powerful foresight tools that provide a clear, visual snapshot of trends and developments. They help organize and communicate insights at a glance, showing how trends may evolve over time and intersect across key dimensions. This visualization allows your team to quickly spot relevant areas for strategic planning and identify potential opportunities or risks.
The new Radar manager makes it easy to build and customize these radars in FIBRES, so you can adapt them to suit your unique foresight needs and objectives.
Experiment, customize, and create radars that fit your strategy
Creating a radar layout that aligns with your foresight goals can take some experimentation—and that’s exactly what the Radar manager empowers you to do. With this feature, you can try different approaches to trend mapping and refine your radars as you go. For those on the Unlimited radars plan, there’s no limit to how many radars you can create, giving you ample room to explore various perspectives and layouts.
The Radar manager walks you through the setup process with options to customize dimensions like sectors and horizons, while also giving you control over visual elements such as bubble colors and sizes. Whether you’re working on a high-level radar to capture broad themes or focusing in on specific trends, this customization lets you align each radar with your unique foresight strategy.
If you’re curious about a step-by-step guide, check out our detailed instructions on radar creation and editing.
FIBRES is more than trend radars
While we’re thrilled to introduce the new Radar manager, it’s worth emphasizing that FIBRES is not just a radar-building tool. FIBRES is a complete foresight platform designed to support the entire foresight journey—from bringing in signals, to making sense of emerging topics, and identifying key trends.
So while the Radar manager expands what you can do with radars, it’s all part of our bigger commitment to helping you gather, organize, and analyze insights for strategic foresight.
Ready to take your trend mapping to the next level?
For anyone seeking further insights or tips on making the most of trend radars in FIBRES, we’ve gathered a comprehensive set of resources. Check out our trend radar guide for designing radars give you the visual clarity to make informed, strategic decisions and inspire conversations about future opportunities and challenges.
We hope these updates bring new ease and effectiveness to your trend mapping and strategic foresight work. As always, we value your feedback and look forward to seeing the creative ways you use these new capabilities!
