Let’s have a brief look at brands using foresight. Today, it’s Siemens.

Many large and forward-thinking companies have established capacities specializing in strategic foresight, scenario planning, and trend analysis. These teams or individuals are responsible for identifying emerging trends, potential disruptors, and long-term opportunities and threats, actively contributing to the corporate long-term strategies. While it’s challenging to provide an exhaustive list, we present a series of examples of companies known for their investment in foresight activities helping them to achieve long term goals and desired futures.

Siemens has a Future of Manufacturing initiative that focuses on technological trends and industry shifts to inform their manufacturing and industrial solutions. They also have a FutureMakers program dedicated to fostering innovation. They issue a Siemens Megatrend Report and Siemens Infrastructure Transition Monitor exploring the state of the infrastructure transition, the urgent priorities, and the path ahead for business and government leaders, who must work together to responsibly evolve the world’s infrastructure. Worth noticing is also “The emergent Industrial Metaverse developed together with MIT Technology Review.

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