New foresight radar templates to kick-start your next project

The better you can frame, visualize, and understand what is changing, the better equipped you are to make confident strategic moves. That is why we have expanded the foresight radar template library in FIBRES, so you can start your next trend radar or technology radar project faster and with layouts that fit your needs more closely than before.

With this update, you can choose from an extended set of sector, horizon, bubble size, and bubble color templates. These ready-made categorizations make it easier to kick-start your work with meaningful structure from day one, while still giving you the freedom to customize or create your own.

What’s new in the template library

You now have more options for each radar dimension, designed to help you see patterns faster, align your work with strategy, and communicate insights clearly.

For trend and hybrid radars:

• System level – Identify whether a phenomenon affects the big picture (macro), your industry or ecosystem (meso), or your organization directly (micro).

• Strategic relevance – Map each trend by how closely it aligns with your current strategy: is it core to what you do today, adjacent and potentially important in the future, or peripheral and worth monitoring?

• Stakeholder impact – See at a glance who will be most affected by a development: your customers, your employees, your partners and suppliers, wider society, or institutions and regulators.

For technology radars:

• Technology readiness level (TRL) – Show the maturity of a technology, from early-stage ideas still in research to proven solutions ready for deployment.

• Technology adoption guidance – Provide a clear recommendation for each technology: should you adopt it now, trial it in pilots, assess it further, or hold off for now?

• Technology type – Classify technologies based on their domain, such as infrastructure, platforms, applications, data, user interfaces, security, or tools and methods. This helps you balance focus across technical areas.

• Internal use stage – Show how far your organization has adopted each technology, from not yet in use to full production integration.

• Technology origin – Track whether a technology comes from in-house development, open source communities, commercial vendors, startups, or academic research.

• Technology risk level – Flag the level of uncertainty or potential downside for each technology so risks are visible in the conversation.

• Adoption complexity – Highlight how difficult it would be to implement each technology, making resource planning and prioritization easier.

Start faster with layouts that fit your use case

The new templates are designed to save you time in getting from idea to insight. Instead of starting with an empty radar, you can pick a layout that already reflects the way you think about your topics and the outcomes you need.

By choosing templates that match your workflow, you can frame discussions and decisions more effectively from the very start.

Bonus tip: if you're working with Foresight Agents, you might even consider exploring the same topic with a couple of different radar variations.

Built-in structure with full customization

Templates give you a strong starting point, but they are never a limitation. You can completely customize your radar layout:  edit labels, add or remove categories, combine different templates or create your own  framework unique to your organization.

This flexibility of FIBRES in building trend radars means you get both the speed of a pre-built structure and the freedom to adapt it exactly to your foresight process.

Missing something? Let us know

We want the template library to be as useful and relevant as possible. If you see that a common and valuable template is missing, please tell us and we'll add it to the library so that you and other FIBRES users can benefit!

How to try the new templates

1.  Create a new radar in FIBRES.
2. When prompted, select your sector, horizon, and optionally bubble size, and bubble color templates.
3. (Optionally: tweak the radar dimensions to perfectly align with your internal taxonomies or preferences).
4. Start adding your content and watch your radar take shape.

Log in to FIBRES to explore the new templates and start your next radar project with clarity and speed.

Not yet a FIBRES user? You can get started today!