What insights into business resilience are available?

World events such as the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and the rise of online misinformation combined with everyday drivers of uncertainty such as changing prices put a premium on resilience, the ability of an organisation to succeed even in the face of shocks. 
 
Imperial researchers are helping businesses to be resilient by developing algorithms for improving performance under the uncertain conditions of the real world, detecting fake news, and helping customers respond to uncertainty too.
 

Tech digest & Decision making

Zoom screenshot of 4 speakers

Decision making under uncertainty

Hear our expert discussion on Decision making under uncertainty at the IBP Feb 2020 event

Click to watch

IBP logo with two people in front of a turbine

Fact or fiction

A quest for objectivity in an age of fake news and misinformation

Click here to read

Decision-making for business leaders & Developing customer support systems

Decision-making for business leaders

The pandemic has placed a spotlight on decision-making for business leaders. How can how machine learning, blockchain technology and quantitative methods support businesses?

Find out more

Developing customer support systems

FMCG companies have the potential to support individuals in their personal goals by reimagining their brand touchpoints, growing customer confidence, and building a stronger relationship with the brand.

Find out more

Business evolution for society & Contact us

Business evolution for society

How can organisations shift towards an increasingly sustainable enterprise logic?

Find out more

The world in 2050

A lot can happen in 30 years. Life today looks very different from how it was in 1990. For over ten years, the Grantham Institute has supported students, researchers, business and startups to transform bright ideas into useable products that both create prosperity and help tackle climate change. Here is our vision, inspired by their work, for a cleaner, greener, fairer future for us all.

Find out more

Automated Futures & Futures of Water

Automated Futures

Detailed graphic to show how different AI tools and techniques link together and how they could pave the way to future technologies that have yet to be realised.

Find out more

Future of water

Water as a resource is highly threatened. At the same time it is a precondition for human existence. As a team at the Technology Foresight Practice at Imperial College we wanted to explore new perspectives on the future of water beyond the often-dystopic visions.

Find out more

Table of disruptive technologies & Emerging timeline of science and technology

Table of disruptive technologies

The table of disruptive technologies is designed to make people think. The table consists of 100 potentially disruptive technologies, which we have defined as those capable of significant social, economic or political upheaval.

Find out more

Emerging timeline of science

We created this Timeline of Emerging Science and Technology to explore the future of five science fields, looking ahead to the next few decades and explore what technologies, trends and big ideas lie downstream of breakthrough lab discoveries today. These five fields: biotech; nanotech; neurotech; digitech and greentech have been much talked about for their potential to create disruptive innovation.

Find out more

20 academics on the next 20 years & High-performance computing

20 academics on the next 20 years

2020 has always had an allure to it when it comes to foresight. In the essence of the year 2o2o, we decided that we wanted to collate a space where we could have speculative conversations with individual academics from the College. Asking them, what is happening now and what might be next? Over 2020, we will speak to 20 academics about their predictions for 2040.

Find out more

High-performance computing

Explore the possible impact of high performance computing across a wide range of applications, from simulation or healthcare, to fintech or engineering.

Find out more

Any questions? Contact us