The document emphasizes the necessity of foresight in business to navigate the rapidly changing environment shaped by technology and globalization. It highlights the importance of being proactive in identifying trends and opportunities, while protecting business assets from potential risks. Strategies suggested include using trend analysis, environmental scanning, and anticipatory management to enhance future planning.

1. Operating with Foresight:
You Owe It to Your Business

2. Technology, companies, globalization our
perception of world
is changing too
quickly to
leave things
such as your
business to
chance.

3. Without foresight it is almost impossible to prepare for the
future.

4. Everything is changing at
the speed of lightening

5. Technology, jobs,
organizations, real-estate,
human resources are all
shifting radically and swiftly

6. Making it very difficult to plan
ahead and prepare for future
challenges and opportunities.

7. We are living in a new economy –
powered by technology, fueled by
information and driven by
knowledge

8. Technology is
allowing those who
seize the moment to
become innovative
and create their
future.

9. By applying foresight to your business
plan you are doing two key things

10. Protecting your business
assets from any potential
danger

11. Staying alert to any possible opportunities that
can enhance your company.

12. Those who lack foresight are most likely to
unexpectedly find that their industry is lost to new
technologies

13. When a business lacks
foresight it operates in the
past, with no idea of what to
expect in the future of their
business

14. Apply Simple Steps to Your Foresight
Strategy Such As:
• Be alert to trends with tools such as Trend Impact
Analysis (TIA)
• Systematically scan search the internal and external
environment (SWOT & STEEP) to understand the
pace of changes and identify potential opportunities
or challenges
• Incorporate anticipatory management this will give
you the advantage which requires sophisticated
intelligence

15. Can safeguard the future of your business
Strategic
Foresight
Planning