One of the exclusive benefits of the Imperial Business Partners programme is an opportunity to work with our in-house group researching the longer-term future: Tech Foresight.
Tech Foresight is an in-house futures research function: bringing a foresight view to business.
Drawing directly from the world-leading research and innovation at Imperial, the Tech Foresight team presents a unique perspective on future trends research. The team is geared to collaborate with you on strategic futures projects, expert panels, future technology showcase events and experience journeys at Imperial.
A global consumer goods IBP member wanted to explore how emerging trends and technologies might impact their R&D site and ways of working on the mid to long term. To do this, Imperial Tech Foresight developed a set of future scenarios based on Imperial academic expertise. Our foresight specialists, assisted by leading Imperial academics, then ran a bespoke one-day workshop. As a result, our client’s s strategy team members had the opportunity to ask questions about the possible futures, explore new ways of problem solving together and discover ideas for a resilient and adaptive R&D approach in the next 10-15 years. “The Imperial foresight sessions gave us some really challenging future scenarios, that pushed our long-term thinking outside our comfort zone – in a good way!”
What are the Tech Foresight opportunities?
- Access to annual cycles of general disruptive technology research (referenced in Financial Times, Business Insider, Forbes). IBP members have access to the open-content as well as partner only content.
- Disruptive technology scanning projects of targeted area: futures focused mapping across targeted areas (within IBP offer depending on scope)
- Tech Foresight events and activities to showcase projects and convene partners/stakeholders
What are examples of disruptive technology sensemaking projects?
- Helping you create a manageable and actionable set of over the horizon changes
- Connecting future change to the present
- Identifying actions that can be taken today due to changes in the future
- Bringing understanding of the implications of future change
- Making insights communicable to a wide audience
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Intrigued? Contact us to learn more about Imperial Tech Foresight
Imperial Tech Foresight is available exclusively to Imperial Business Partners members. Contact the Tech Foresight team to learn more about how you can access this exciting initiative, our thought-provoking specialists and our wide range of innovative experts from Imperial's industry-focused academic and entrepreneurial community.