Forge is a Foresight & Futures Research, Strategy & Ideas Practice to help visionaries and innovators build businesses and impacts that will outlast them.
Forge is backed by two decades of experience in Business and Creative Strategy on a wide range of challenges and client sectors - from product strategies to social innovations, from multinational corporations to multilateral development organizations.
Beyond a focus on growth and efficiency, Forge is drawn to exploring deeper strategic questions that impact the viability and sustainability of businesses, organizations and institutions in the face of unprecedented change.
What if our uncertainties about the future could fuel better decisions and action plans today?
What if we ensured the brands, businesses and impacts we build outlast our lifetime?
What if we could override our present bias and invest ourselves in longer-term planning?
What if we reframe our roles as responsible stewards and good ancestors instead of managers?
How would this future-framing transform our businesses, communities, societies and selves?
These bigger questions can often lead to answers that ask more of a team and its leaders. More accountability, more courage, greater vision. But it also leads to a generative space animated by imagination, creativity and a hopefulness that comes with exploring potential.
This is where the magic of a robust futures strategy lies: using different tools and approaches to reframe uncertainties to opportunities, problems to possiblities, plans to actions that can forge a future for all.
Stewarding responsible futures is a big job and requires a dynamic way of working with fresh and forefront Futures Thinkers & Doers.
THE FORGE APPROACH
Whether your time horizon is a shorter term future of 2 years or a longer term of 10, Forge brings together transdisciplinary tools, mindsets and methodologies that allow for anticipatory, expansive, conscientious & imaginative strategies to action underexplored opportunities.
STEWARDING FUTURES FRAMES & MINDSETS
PARTICIPATORY FORESIGHT MEETS FUTURES DESIGN
SERVICES
Forge partners with Futuring Creatives, Researchers and other Futures Thinkers to form project collectives when the need arises. Their combined skills cover a range of services that address challenges of short to longer term futures.
Research (Frame)
Futurescans - Signals of Change, Trendspotting, Critical Cultural Research
Trends Safaris - Bespoke trendspotting team expeditions
Creative Research - Worldbuilding, Artefacts, Fiction, Participatory
Ethnographic & Action Research
Strategy (Foresight)
Ad Hoc Strategy & Innovation Consultations
Strategic Foresight Workshops
Visioning & Futures Planning
Scenario Building Sessions
Reimagining Brand & Business Futures
Future Customer Experiences
Ideas (Foundry)
Product and Experience Prototypes
Digital Worldbuilds & Artefacts
Futures Design of Built Environments
Futures Design Thinking Workshops