to scan the environment

• identification of emerging fields to survey

• location of the weak signals and germs of change

• checking and critical analysis of information

to create Futures-oriented Information Systems

• contribution to the definition of the processing database

• development of the grid of reading adapted to the needs

• training of the users

to make sense

• checking of the coherence and the relevance of the data

• recourse to the macrohistory to identify the structural drivers

• seek of an in-depth understanding of the changes