Learn how to find your way around this service. A little time spent learning our system will save you many months, or even years, of research work in the future and open up a whole new way for you to produce better outputs and results efficiently and effectively.

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To access our content:
Either click Enter or Trending Now, Social
Change or Global Goals for examples of our
service
OR
Search for your interest topic using the
FORECASTS dialog box
We recommend you click Best Use to see how
our clients’ maximize their research and
decision-making
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Seven key capabilities: SETTINGS, GUIDE, SOURCES,
FORECASTS REPORTS, DECISIONS, MEMBERS
Click these to reveal drop-downs and content
Content pages backwards through time: latest
contributions first
Use the center panel dashboard to narrow and present
the content as you desire. Once you have searched for
your topic you only have to use the center panel
dashboard to find all we know about its likely future.
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The system finds instant and automatic future
‘Forecasts' about probable, possible and
potential future world conditions.
You need merely Add Sources and Athena, our
robot, will do the rest,
You can then develop the likely future story of
your chosen topic in text and spreadsheet form
by clicking the analyses in the center panel:
Forecasts: qualitative topic analysis
Metrics: quantitative topic analysis
Comparisons: contrasts with other topics
Scenarios: alternative futures
Get instant, extracted prospective on your interest topics
With this system, members can develop their strategic
responses, create professional foresight reports and
presentations in less than half a day on any topic of their
choice compared with the many weeks taken by
traditional methods
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Here you can change your profile to:
Make it 100% complete
Manage your Email subscriptions
Check your site Competency level
View your Purchase History
Set your topic Interests
Discover your thinking Style
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Switch views between
- Forecasts*
- Insights
- Sources
- Members
- Questions
or switch views between
- ‘My’: your private content
- ‘Our’: your organization’s private content
- ‘All’*: public content
or switch views between
- latest added*, earliest added or
alphabetically
* default
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Use single keywords to find content of high
relevance to you
Strings of words produce many variable
and unrelated results
Use inverted commas to search for strings
or Boolean expressions like AND or OR
Use both singular AND plural of your
search expression for best results
Do not use common words like trends,
future etc. in your search expression
Switch view from Forecasts to Insights,
Sources, Members or Questions
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Use these controls to manage your work:
Click the title: to view the original content
Tag: use descriptors to bookmark your
favorites, assign project names, track competitors
etc.
Refer: link one piece of content to another
Report: create your own report from the
content and send to associates
Share: email to associates and share the
content on social media sites
Forum: dialogue with others, critique and/or
add your views
Assess: add your own evaluations
Credibility: Report Fake News
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Home: return to the site front page
Invite: to tell your associates about us
Feedback: to tell us what you think of the
service
Glossary: a comprehensive explanation of
the most common words used in relation to
strategic foresight
Library: unearth the world’s best strategic
thinking resources
Print: to publish our content (DeskPDF
required)
Logout: to leave the service
Visit our Facebook, Twitter, Ning and
LinkedIn sites
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Begin exploring the service
Consult the other detailed help ‘GUIDES’ here
Learn how to get ahead of rivals
Contact us if you have any difficulties or would
like up to 40 minutes free, online training
We are here to help. Feel free to contact us
+44 (0) 1273 832221
info@shapingtomorrow.com
Skype: shapingtomorrow
Ask Athena
“We are here to help you make
better strategy decisions today, faster
and cheaper than ever before”
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Begin exploring the service
Consult the other detailed help ‘GUIDES’ here
Learn how to get ahead of rivals
Contact us if you have any difficulties or would
like up to 40 minutes free, online training
We are here to help. Feel free to contact us
+44 (0) 1273 832221
info@shapingtomorrow.com
Skype: shapingtomorrow
Ask Athena
“We are here to help you make
better strategy decisions today, faster
and cheaper than ever before”
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