1. 4sing
ForeSight to Strategy
for Security and Sustainability
in Governance
We help management interactively
develop strategy/policy for dealing with the
challenges of today and tomorrow either in
their leadership team, or with the participation of
other colleagues and stakeholders.
We do this with interviews, workshops, and on-
line interactions, employing a variety of
methods, tools and games. We also
empower organisations to set up such capacities
for themselves, by giving training, templates and
coaching.
What we do

2. STRATEGY FORESIGHT
PLAYI-
FICATION
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METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Foresight: We help clients experiment with alternative futures to give them a
feeling for the strategic risks and opportunities at hand. The process opens
minds to alternative strategy options and lets participants check if any
given strategy will be robust/resilient, in all futures.
Strategy: We assist organisations to develop strategic rules of thumb that
align all stakeholders. The process identifies the options to pursue, and
opens the door to running “safe to fail” experiments that can develop
a strategy/policy progressively and organically.
Playification: We use software tools to visualise work, and let
management/stakeholders play with the results. Also, we have
developed role-playing games to let management play other
stakeholders, and see how they react to alternative strategic moves
and future challenges.
WHO WE ARE
We are a small team with a broad network of partners. The core team
has undertaken projects in 36 different countries, and run workshops in 5
languages (English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish).
Although we started with a focus on sustainability and security, our
real strength is method. As a result, we have run projects on multiple
industry sectors and policy areas: thse have ranged from Small and
Medium Sized Enterprise Policy in Algeria, to role playing competitors
with a chemicals company in Europe, and from developing a strategy
for a multi-modal transport project in Brazil, to helping colleagues in an
Asian government design their own foresight and Early Warning System.
Moreover we have also helped build a peer-to-peer learning network
for Regional Economic Integration bodies world-wide, and developed
serious games for testing corporate and urban resilience.
OUR WORKING STYLE
4Sing offers consulting, where we run the whole project end-to-end, and
capacity building, where we coach the client in developing their own
foresight, playification and strategy capability.
In some cases we will embed our personnel in a client organisation to
complete a specific project. In all cases the emphasis is that the client
knows their business/policy best, and we empower them to find the
best solutions for their area of expertise. Often we recommend outside
stakeholders be included in the process, so as to broaden the expertise
available, and make sure all relevant actors are aligned
in implementing the strategy.
OUR PARTNERS
Contact
Oesterleystrasse 41
22587 Hamburg, Germany
info@4sing.com
+49 172 825 9902
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