Build a foresight approach into your business intelligence tool
In a constantly changing world, strategic intelligence and foresight are essential tools to anticipate trends and preparing for future challenges.
Discover how to build an effective foresight approach with the Curebot strategic intelligence tool, and turn uncertainty into opportunities for your organization.
Decipher the strategic challenges of monitoring and forecasting
Foresight is an indispensable tool and methodology for organizations wishing to anticipate trends and developments in their environment, in order to define desirable futures. In this sense, collaborative intelligence can play a key role in creating a long-term, multi-disciplinary vision of strategic issues. By monitoring, collecting, analyzing and sharing relevant information between different stakeholders, both internal and external to the organization, collaborative intelligence supports a forward-looking approach informed by the skills, knowledge and expertise of the network of contributors mobilized.
Let's find out how to build an effective foresight process thanks to Curebot's multiple functionalities. By following our advice, you will be able to build bridges to the future and anticipate future challenges with confidence.
Identify key trends in your environment: Master collaborative strategic intelligence
For a successful foresight approach, carry out a collaborative generalist watch to identify key issues and variables in the environment under study. This information gathering will enable you to identify the key issues and variables to be taken into account in your forward-looking approach.
Explore variables and develop forward-looking hypotheses: Create targeted watches with Curebot
Once the key issues and variables have been identified through collaborative intelligence, two steps are essential:
Firstly, you need to capitalize on the relevant resources - studies, videos, sources of information, experts - unearthed during the research phase. This consolidation lays the foundations for a solid knowledge base to underpin the forward-looking approach.
Secondly, we recommend segmenting this watch by creating specialized feeds for each variable. This in-depth analysis of information by variable facilitates the construction of prospective hypotheses by tagging articles according to their interest.
The combination of a robust knowledge base and fine-tuned intelligence segmentation thus considerably enhances the quality of prospective thinking.
Collaborate to strengthen your hypotheses: The central role of tagging in foresight
The tagging of watch articles by users plays a central role in consolidating forward-looking hypotheses. The more articles users tag, the more the hypotheses are reinforced or challenged with substantiated content. Tagging allows us to challenge the relevance of our hypotheses as we go along, and to generate new ideas through collaborative intelligence.
To facilitate the construction of these hypotheses, it is possible to create collaborative documents such as variable sheets. These sheets bring together all the information linked to a given variable, such as tagged articles, associated hypotheses, observed trends, etc. This enables users to collaborate effectively and enrich these data sheets as they monitor and analyze their work.
Cross-reference evolutions: Create collaborative scenarios with Curebot
By combining different hypotheses of your variables identified in your monitoring activities, it is possible to build prospective scenarios which, in turn, can be enriched and adjusted according to the evolution of these same hypotheses.
Users can integrate new data, revise pre-existing assumptions or design new scenarios in line with organizational requirements. This iterative process ensures a dynamic and adaptable forward-looking approach, capable of meeting the challenges of an ever-changing environment.
Stimulate the collective intelligence of your foresight process: knowledge editorialization
To stimulate the forward-looking approach, it is essential to editorialize the sharing of information. This is why the use of monitoring dashboards can be particularly useful.
First of all, a work dashboard shows the various raw information flows. In the header of each feed, users can find the different tags to be used to qualify articles according to the corresponding hypothesis. This dashboard enables efficient collection and analysis of relevant information.
Next, a presentation dashboard benefits the foresight team by providing a consolidated view of all information tagged by subject. This cross-functional vision facilitates the construction of deliverables such as newsletters and reports, while also feeding forward-looking thinking. Secondly, this dashboard can be used to keep the organization's members informed of the issues addressed, the scenarios devised, and the project's progress. The dashboard thus ensures effective dissemination of the forward-looking knowledge produced, reinforcing a shared culture around future challenges.
Animate your foresight process: The newsletter as an engine of contribution
The newsletter is an excellent tool for encouraging stakeholders to contribute to the foresight process. By regularly distributing a summary of the information gathered by the watch, the newsletter keeps contributors engaged. It also encourages the emergence of new ideas and enriching reflections to explore possible futures. In this way, it continually stimulates forward-looking thinking within the network of contributors.
Maximize the impact of your foresight approach: Add value to results with appropriate deliverables
To maximize the impact of a foresight approach, it is essential to disseminate the results in the form of deliverables tailored to the target audience. Certain descriptive deliverables, such as newsletters, can be used to inform and raise awareness among employees. Others with a strategic purpose, such as prospective scenarios or a white paper, facilitate decision-making by providing a forward-looking vision of the future. Thanks to this range of reporting formats, organizations can make the most of their foresight input and transform their outlook in concrete terms.
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Article written by : Maxime Robin
