Foresight · Trends

Megatrends

An executive foresight program that moves leaders from reading about trends to a trend map for their own company, with an AI scanning tool in the room.

  • 4 sessions
  • 90 min each
  • AI scanning tool
  1. 01Mega, macro, micro, and fads.
  2. 02This year's landscape, scanned with AI.
  3. 03First- and second-degree impacts.
  4. 04One trend map for your company.

The challenge

Leadership teams follow trends as news, not as decisions for their own business.

How it works

Four sessions, from headlines to a map.

  1. Step 01

    Foundations

    Why trends matter, and how to tell mega, macro and micro trends from fads.

    OutputA shared language for trends
  2. Step 02

    Landscape and AI scanning

    This year's trends, consumer shifts and emerging tech, scanned with the AI tool.

    OutputA shortlist for your industry
  3. Step 03

    Futures Wheel

    First- and second-degree impacts of the chosen trends, worked through in teams.

    OutputMapped impacts
  4. Step 04

    Trend map

    The team's work pulled into one picture for the company.

    OutputThe company trend map

Frameworks behind it

Method and sources.

  • Mega · macro · microTrend horizons
  • PESTELScanning taxonomy
  • Futures WheelJerome C. Glenn · impact mapping
  • UN, IMF, World Bank, OECD, IEA, IPCC, WEF, WHO, McKinsey Global InstituteSources behind the trend library

What participants leave with

From headlines to decisions.

The team leaves with a view of the future it can act on.

  • A prioritized shortlist of trends for your industry
  • Impact scores for your company
  • A company trend map

AI companion

An AI tool scans 120 trends for your industry.

A curated library of 120 trends across mega, macro and micro horizons. AI ranks the most relevant for an industry and region, then rescores them for a specific company using web research.

Where it has run

Run with a C-level team.

Delivered to the C-level leadership of a major bank in Egypt.

4sessions of 90 minutes
C-levelleadership team

Bring Megatrends to your leadership team.

Based in Madrid. Working across Latin America, Europe and the GCC, in English and Spanish.