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future workshops
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Mindhive's future workshops open doors to scenarios and strategies vital in today's rapidly evolving business environment. We combine futures studies and practical strategies to assist your company in navigating future challenges and opportunities.
Our goal is to provide tools that:
Facilitate the creation of flexible and sustainable strategies
Help in identifying innovations
Support informed decision-making.
The workshops explore a variety of scenarios, each offering a unique perspective and opportunity to learn, grow, and adapt.
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Why scenario plan the future
Strategic insight and readiness for future challenges
The primary goal of our future workshop is to aid your company in developing a deep understanding of future trends and opportunities.
Scenarios help envision potential future paths and prepare for them. They offer tools to anticipate upcoming challenges and opportunities.
Strategic planning
Scenarios assist organisations in formulating strategies that are flexible and sustainable under various future conditions.
Identifying innovations
Scenarios can reveal new opportunities and markets previously unconsidered.
Risk management
Scenarios enable the identification and assessment of risks that may impact the achievement of organisational goals.
Common understanding
Creating scenarios can help different stakeholders better understand each other's perspectives and unite their efforts to achieve common goals.
Collaborative process exploring possible futures
Taking steps towards understanding the future
Identifying possible futures is a process where community members and experts across fields collectively envisage different futures.
The workshop uses the Delphi method, an iterative process gathering, analysing, and refining experts' views over several rounds, aiming for broad consensus and identifying key trends and potential future paths.
This process helps businesses recognise future opportunities and challenges, laying the foundation for flexible and sustainable strategic planning.
Future workshop as a process
Confirming the plan
We develop a project plan with the client, outlining goals, timelines, and participant roles.
Panels and statements
Expert panels are organised, comprising internal and external challengers and representative actors.
Delphi rounds
We conduct 2-3 rounds and 3 in-person/hybrid/remote workshops to collect and analyse expert views.
Analysis and scenario development
We produce future narratives and scenarios aiding informed decision-making and strategy planning.
Our experts
Ville Venäläinen is a futurist who has extensively examined the relationship between humans and technology, its impact on social patterns, and societal shifts. At Mindhive, Ville develops a next-generation methodological tool for collaborative scenario and future research processes
Hannu Linturi is a Finnish futurist and innovator. A key member of the Finnish Delphi developer community, he contributed to the National Board of Education's Future of Learning barometer. Hannu is renowned for his ability to perceive and anticipate future trends and opportunities. He has been involved in numerous projects focusing on the future of technology, society, and business.
Case Suur-Savon Sähkö Oy
Innovative thinking for the future of the energy sector
Suur-Savon Sähkö took a significant step in future planning by participating in a Mindhive Future Workshop, specifically designed for its executive management. The workshop aimed to explore future trends and challenges in the energy sector.
The workshop focused on scenarios related to technological innovations in the energy sector, market changes, and environmental issues. Participants collaborated with Mindhive experts to identify opportunities and strategies that could shape the company's future.
As a result, Suur-Savon Sähkö gained valuable insights and guidelines for developing its future strategy, creating a concrete plan addressing short and long-term goals, responding to the rapidly evolving challenges of the energy sector.