The Strategic Foresight team engages Forum communities in strategic dialogues to understand and address complex and uncertain long-term challenges. The work is inter-organizational and multistakeholder in terms of governance and participation, and provides a space in which communities, common understanding and trust can emerge. Beyond creating awareness about plausible alternative scenarios, questioning mental models and improving the robustness of decision-making, the work has been useful in developing a systemic understanding of challenges and to map and examine paradigms.
Current Projects
Political and
Economic Implications of Resource Scarcity
This
project explores possible political and economic implications of resource
availability for business and government stakeholders over the coming two
decades. It focuses on the role of interconnections between resources, and the
frameworks and solutions that can be used to resolve resource dilemmas.
Euro, Dollar, Yuan Uncertainties - Scenarios on the Future of the International Monetary System
Using the Forum’s
scenario thinking methodology, this project explores key systemic drivers and
uncertainties related to the euro, dollar and yuan that could affect the
structure and functioning of the international monetary system in 2030.
Scenarios for Sustainable Health Systems
The project explores the potential for transforming health systems, and
how the future of sustainably financed healthcare might look by 2030. The gaim
of the scenarios is to provide a set of fundamentally different options for global health systems. The project is generating excitement and new
possibilities among stakeholders, converging towards a path none of them could
enact alone.
Scenarios for the
Russian Federation
Using the Forum’s
scenario and thinking and systems dynamics methodologies, this project explores
the underlying social, economic, political and institutional drivers for Russia’s
future economic prosperity.
Past Projects (alphabetical order)
- Advancing Cloud Computing: What To Do Now?
- China and the World: Scenarios to 2025
- Digital Ecosystem Convergence between IT, Telecoms, Media and Entertainment: Scenarios to 2015
- Engineering & Construction: Scenarios to 2020
- Exploring The Future Of Cloud Computing: Riding The Next Wave Of Technology-Driven Transformation
- India and the World: Scenarios to 2025
- Mining and Metals: Scenarios to 2030
- Redesigning Business Value: A Roadmap for Sustainable Consumption
- Russia and the World: Scenarios to 2025
- Scenarios for the Mediterranean Region
- Technology and Innovation in Financial Services: Scenarios to 2020
- The Future of Pensions and Healthcare in a Rapidly Ageing World: Scenarios to 2030
- The Future of the Global Financial System: A Near-Term Outlook and Long-Term Scenarios
- The Future of the Global Financial System: Navigating the Challenges Ahead
- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries and the World: Scenarios to 2025
- The Kingdom of Bahrain and the World: Scenarios to 2025
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the World: Scenarios to 2025
- The United Arab Emirates and the World: Scenarios to 2025
- Transforming Pensions and Healthcare in a Rapidly Ageing World: Opportunities and Collaborative Strategies
Contact the World Economic Forum Strategic Foresight team Strategic.Foresight@weforum.org
Latest Reports
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Scenarios for the Mediterranean Region
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Advancing Cloud Computing: What To Do Now?
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Exploring the Future of Cloud Computing: Riding the Next Wave of Technology-Driven Transformation
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Mining & Metals: Scenarios to 2030
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The Future of the Global Financial System - Navigating the Challenges Ahead
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Redesigning Business Value: A Roadmap for Sustainable Consumption
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The Future of the Global Financial System: A Near-Term Outlook and Long-Term Scenarios
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Transforming Pensions and Healthcare in a Rapidly Ageing World: Opportunities and Collaborative Strategies
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The Future of Pensions and Healthcare in a Rapidly Ageing World: Scenarios to 2030
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Engineering & Construction: Scenarios to 2020
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The United Arab Emirates and the World: Scenarios to 2025
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the World: Scenarios to 2025
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The GCC Countries and the World: Scenarios to 2025
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Digital Ecosystem Convergence between IT, Telecoms, Media and Entertainment: Scenarios to 2015
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Technology and Innovation in Financial Services: Scenarios to 2020 - Preface and Executive Summary
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The Kingdom of Bahrain and the World: Scenarios to 2025
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Russia and the World: Scenarios to 2025
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China and the World: Scenarios to 2025
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India and the World: Scenarios to 2025