Projects
No more BS. No more useless plastic, or flabby, unimaginative oatmeal. Future Navigator strives to make a difference by empowering you to create a better tomorrow. For customers, employees, shareholders, and you. The difference lies in the way we approach any project where we go through a process aimed at identifying new perspectives that provides better value for the customer and which can be put to work in reality.
Insulting – You know you need it
Honestly, we cannot claim that we do consulting. We don’t care if you like us, and we don’t aim to please or smooth talk when we do projects. We can do it if needed, but you do not pay us and spent your valuable time with us, in order for us to confirm that your crap products or outdated ways of thinking will give you success in the future. The reason why many organisations fail at innovation or in enticing their employees and clients is because they are not really proud of what they do. What is the meaningfulness of what you do? What value do you create? And will anybody miss you if you were not there? What is it you do that I cannot get anywhere else (for free)? What do you leave behind? And what do you tell your children, when they ask what it is you do?
If you need honest people, who take great pride in kicking you in a certain body part you have come to the right place. And yes, we have fired clients before. The future is a great place to work with visions, scenarios, opportunities, new insights, strategy etc. but sooner or later decisions have to be made. And we will not allow you to get lost in the future.
Through a combination of creativity, rigor, and an ability for asking the stupid questions that no-one asks (often because they’re taboo), we have a trackrecord of unlocking insights that shed new light on opportunities and empower our clients to act on them.
Visit our treasure chest of cases, and maybe you will find inspiration in the projects we have done so far.
We have a really good relationship with all of our clients, so if you need an honest opinion or would like to know some of the does-and-dont’s of working with the future, gives us a ring or drop us a line and we will put you in contact with the right people.
Future Based Ideas Development™ is our methodology.
Future Navigator aims to make a difference by creating a better tomorrow. For customers, employees and you. The difference lies in the way we approach any project where we go through a process aimed at identifying new perspectives that provides meaningful value for the client, which can be implemented in reality.
Through a combination of creativity, rigor and an ability for asking the stupid questions that no-one asks (often because they’re taboo), we have a track record of unlocking insights that shed new light on opportunities and empower our clients to act on them.
Reality Check
A problem can be defined as “the difference between where you are and where you want to be”. The “where you want to be” part we address through homework, visualisations, games, trend mapping, scenario development etc. The “where you are” part is about facing the facts and the ugly truth. Corporate culture eats strategy for breakfast. It’s easy enough to talk about the future, but in order for you to succeed it is essential to establish the cohesiveness between a vision for the future and the situation at hand. It’s not so much what you know, but much more what you don’t know. What you don’t know you know, and don’t know you don’t know. And especially what you do not want to know. You know?
Confused? Then it’s time to step out of the comfort zone and into reality. The good news is that with today’s’ technologies it will actually become possible to predict the future – to have a future forecast just like we do with the weather. And in reality we often find that most organisations already have everything they need in order to succeed. They just need to look at it differently. In short, they need a new perspective.
New Perspectives
An idea in our vocabulary is “a new perspective on something you already know”. Hence, in order to have ideas we need to know something but also to challenge what we know. The future is one way of getting new perspectives. Listening to other people – including people you don’t like – is another. The brain needs to be tickled and disputed every day. Otherwise it will corrode, and you will develop a one-track-mind, only being able to talk and think about “profit”, “market share” or other uninspiring stuff. There is always a positive perspective. And every idiot can find a problem. It takes a whole other way of thinking to come up with constructive ideas and solutions. A brain that is used to being challenged will se opportunities where others see problems and dead ends.
Meaning & Value Creation
Meaningfulness is our big thing. You can create a technology, a product or a solution. But meaning is what people pay for. What is generated when people use your services? We cannot decide what should be meaningful to other people, which is why we need to “listen louder” – to have relationships with clients, the stakeholders, the future, and just people in general. When it comes to value creation, well nice concept. Problem is that added value soon becomes added crap. Our perspective is on the unarticulated needs and the scarce resources. A real, genuine interest in others is needed for those who want to create meaningful value.