Future Agenda

Future Agenda is an open source think tank and advisory firm. It runs the world’s leading open foresight programme, helping organisations to identify emerging opportunities, and make more informed decisions. Future Agenda also supports leading organisations on strategy, growth and innovation. As an open source think tank, Future Agenda runs the world's leading open foresight programme. Future Agenda has delivered two unique multi-topic global programmes in 2010 and 2015 across 50 countries involving thousands of expert discussions. The 2015 programme explored 25 topics across 5 continents and ran 120 events, hosted by 50 different organisations. All insights are shared openly and used by many different organisations as stimulus for challenge, decision-making and new thinking. All output is freely available via the futureagenda.org website - with associated insights also available via slideshare, flickr and in two books -'The World in 2025' and 'Six Key Challenges for the Next Decade.' Additional in-depth global foresight projects have addressed a wide range of topics from the future of the socially valued organisation and the future of philanthropy to the future of cities, energy, automotive data and patient data. As an advisory firm, Future Agenda provides support for major companies, governments and NGOs including bespoke research, strategy development, innovation and leadership development. Clients range from the local to the global and include organisations as diverse as Apple, BP and Facebook to HSBC, IHG, Tata, Vodafone and the WWF.