If you're here, you're probably interested in the future in some capacity. Whether it's daily planning, quarterly planning, annual planning, or longer-term futures, humans are innately curious about the future and how to approach it with greater confidence.
But the way we typically practice foresight, as both individuals and organizations, is severely lacking. At the personal level, many of us lead very predictable, patterned lives, yet we still feel anxious about what comes next. We use calendars, day planners, smartphones, and myriad apps, but we still feel like our schedules are out of control.
For organizations, challenges with the future present themselves in different ways. In some corporations, high quality short-term thinking is rewarded to the detriment of the long-term prospects of the firm. Quantitative forecasts and projections are constantly produced, but don't motivate teams and rarely feel accurate.
Foresight is the human ability to think about what comes next, deterministically (the Future, singular) and probabilistically (the futureS, plural). The tension between the baseline Future we assume will come and the futureS that we can imagine preventing, accelerating, or liberating the baseline Future.
Strategic foresight and professional futurists apply different foresight methods to spur new perspectives for imagining and evaluating all of the futures we can contemplate.
At Canary, foresight is at the center of everything we produce. And our mission is to help teams approach their futures with confidence. We do that by applying the right foresight methods to solve our customer's problems, maintaining a relentless curiosity and drive to explore what's next, and building resilient processes today that set teams up to success moving forward.
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