3 Benefits of Futures Thinking — Futures Platform

I find many large corporates make many key decisions looking only three, six and twelve months ahead and are challenged to focus on two, three, five and ten years ahead. CVC puts the CEO back in the driver seat to manage long-term innovation, vision, strategy, leadership and investment in a sensible manner and if done right make financial returns a

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad wrote about the importance of “strategic intent” almost two decades ago in the pages of Harvard Business Review.7

• Foresight has an action problem (too quick to action before considering alternatives, possibilities and consequences due to our preference for short-termism, quick wins, productivity, efficiency, etc.)


• Foresight has a “past”problem (assuming that the future will always mirror the past and present, when both the nature of the future is changing and o