Futures wheel fact sheet

Futures wheel

Futures wheel fact sheet

Fact sheet

Key details

Key details

  • What is it? Group activity to build a futures wheel for your business/team

  • How long is the session? 1-2 hours

  • What is the ideal group size? Minimum 5, no maximum. Large groups are split into teams

  • How is the session delivered? In-person, virtual or hybrid

  • How is it facilitated? Designed to be delivered in-house. External available if needed


What is it?

Group activity to build a futures wheel for your business/team


How long is the session?

1-2 hours


What is the ideal group size?

Minimum 5, no maximum. Large groups are split into teams


How is the session delivered?

In-person, virtual or hybrid


How is it facilitated?

Designed to be delivered in-house. External available if needed

What is a futures wheel?

What is a futures wheel?

A futures wheel is a visual tool that can help us understand the potential impacts of a macro event or trend.

They give us a simple and comprehensive structure to better prepare for our future, allowing us to move beyond the improvised approaches we commonly rely on.

Why run a futures wheel session?

Why run a futures wheel session?

Understand the business impacts of a specific event or disruption, and how to prepare for it

Understand the business impacts of a specific event or disruption, and how to prepare for it

Stress test your strategy to stay relevant in a rapidly changing business environment

Stress test your strategy to stay relevant in a rapidly changing business environment

Build your team’s strategic acumen with a new set of tools to solve a practical challenge

Build your team’s strategic acumen with a new set of tools to solve a practical challenge

Example central events

Example central events

AI widely adopted

Next pandemic

Recession

Climate change

World War 3

Space colonisation

Universal Basic Income

Or choose your own

Why run a futures wheel session?

Why run a futures wheel session?

Purpose built app

Keep participants on track, guiding them through our intuitive process, step by step

Fully customisable

Adjust the look and feel of the app and the events, themes and prompts your team will consider

Engage everyone

Solo brainstorming time paired with team review caters to the full spectrum of thinking styles

Crowdsource insights

Feed the insights from your team's futures wheel into the real-world strategic planning process

Reclaim your time

Cut facilitation prep time from hours to minutes with our 1-click pre-defined central events

Have fun!

Run a genuinely fun and interesting session that continues to delivery value long after it ends

1

Load the app

Participants load the companion app on their phone using a QR code and join their table team/group

2

Solo brainstorm

Guided by prompts, participants identify the impacts of the central event

3

Team review

Team views consolidated brainstorming results in app and discuss and agree on impacts

4

Create futures wheel

Team creates futures wheel on butchers paper using insights from the steps above

5

Consider the 'so what'

Teams group impacts by the (thematic) organisational response required

6

Group reflection

Facilitated discussion and reflection on the learnings, insights and the 'so what'

How it works

1

Load the app

Load the app

Participants load the companion app on their phone using a QR code and join their table team/group

Participants load the companion app on their phone using a QR code and join their table team/group

2

Solo brainstorm

Solo brainstorm

Guided by prompts, participants identify the impacts of the central event

Guided by prompts, participants identify the impacts of the central event

3

Team review

Team review

Team views consolidated brainstorming results in app and discuss and agree on impacts

Team views consolidated brainstorming results in app and discuss and agree on impacts

4

Create futures wheel

Create futures wheel

Team creates futures wheel on butchers paper using insights from the steps above

Team creates futures wheel on butchers paper using insights from the steps above

5

Consider the 'so what'

Consider the 'so what'

Teams group impacts by the (thematic) organisational response required

Teams group impacts by the (thematic) organisational response required

6

Group reflection

Group reflection

Facilitated discussion and reflection on the learnings, insights and the 'so what'

Facilitated discussion and reflection on the learnings, insights and the 'so what'

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