What can a futurist bring to an organization, whatever national or international, local or multinational, governmental or not, public or private, firm or institution, formal or not?

Today more than ever before, top-level executives need to understand what is going on in the world. Key trends in politics, economics, S&T, environment and even culture have an impact on every business, and to manage effectively executives must know how these trends will affect their organisations.

Facing a given situation or complex or emergent stake —such as the development of a territory (country, area, city…), the consequences of the gender imbalance, sustainable energy, impacts of a rupture or breakthrough, global management, human development, etc— the French prospective offers:

• what in the world is going on, where is the world going?

  an in-depth understanding of the situation, based on:

  • a dynamic diagnosis (including the study of the long term-structuring drivers)

  • a critical and comparative thinking (in time as in space)

  • a comprehensive and explanatory synthesis of the present

• where are we, where are we going?

  a description of the futures nodes that the given territory or organization will meet in the medium- and long-terms; it is based on:

  • a comparative dynamic diagnosis of the topic

  • a shared strategic analysis

  • the identification of the futures nodes to overcome by the client

• where do we want to go and how?

  a collective building of the desired future and the means to reach it, based on:

  • the expression of desirable futures visions

  • the consensual choice of a desired future

  • the definition of the way to reach it (backcasting)

  • the research and the creation of an effective capacity to carry out the desired future