Scanning Sprints - What's Next
Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's minimizing the surprise
Scanning Sprints Mission: To spot and synthesize signals, forces, edges & surprises from an accelerating future
Formats: Environmental Scanning & Force Mapping, Early Signals & Trend Banks, Speculative & Omni Futures, Critical Uncertainties and Wild Cards & Grey Swans
Defined: Our Grey Swan Guild that birthed us in the midst of a pandemic (and its name itself) implies our ongoing discovery of wild cards, uncertainties, new avenues of pursuit, omnifutures and Grey Swans, it’s not just a discipline, it’s a passion of ours. Cygnus Scanning Sprints connect the dots to the future by identifying and unravelling uncertainties, diagnosing prospective challenges and Identifying strong & faint signals of change via presentation(s), workshop(s), signal scanning reports and narrative development.
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The Cygnus Difference:
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Multidisciplinary - tackle the complexity of the future through tech, workplace, geo-politcial, econsomic, marketplace & cultural lenses
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Awareness AND Action - develop literacy/fluency on future but also what it should mean for the now
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League of Global Sensemakers- leverage our standing panel of expert guides, futurists and foresight brokers
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Omni futures - tap into our expert roster and topics from our monthly podcast
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1,000 Day Radar Intelligence - harness our massive exploration into our 2 1/2 year futures
Options: Onboard a Scanning Sprint as a prelude to a Strategy or Innovation Sprint; Customer Scanning Sprint to your Annual/Strategic Planning Effort
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Driving "Scanning Sprint" Insight::
“Too much focus on short-term results can be devastating. Companies don't fail because they don't work hard or apply themselves, they often fail because they simply miss the future.”
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Our Cygnus Thought Leaders Dominate and Master the Six Horsemen of the Future-lypse:
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Anticipation of the Future (the blue horse)
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Exploration of the Future (the green horse)
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Consideration of the Future (the black horse)
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Action/Reaction to the Future (the red horse)
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Quantifying the Future (the magenta horse)
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Sharing the Future (the grey horse)
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Biggest Turnoffs in Scanning the Future (we don't do these):
#1. Lack of Implications or Action Based on Foresights or Signals
#2. Derivative Mainstream Analysis, No Real Surprises or Magical Insights
#3 Horizon of Timespans is either Too Short or Too Long (or lacking altogether) for Project Purposes
#4. Uni-dimensional & Functional Bias to Future Perspectives
#5. Depth of Insight Lacking Within & Cross-Industry
#6. Generic, Sweeping Nature of Observations
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For deeper thinking on scanning, read our 20 reasons why Futures and Foresight matter.
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