Do you understand the forces shaping the future?
What organisations that have learned from the future have to say
“The FutureWorld strategic process was the most powerful experience of my entire corporate life. It was profound, life changing and will shift the future of our company in a way no other process could have.”
– Mxolisi Mgojo, CEO, Exxaro Resources
“…helped us establish 5 new businesses in 18 months.”
– Leon Vermaak, Former CEO, Telesure Insurance
“One new business that we are implementing will create R1bn in value in the immediate future.”
– Bernard Swanepoel, Former CEO, Harmony Gold
“EDGE is a first in the South African banking industry. To date, no other bank has been able to offer this kind of engagement model.”
– Zimkhitha Zatu, CEO, Standard Bank Edge
“Our business was ready for this very necessary mindset change; and FutureWorld has done a tremendous job of helping us.”
– Ian Cockerill, Former CEO, Gold Fields
“In less than six months, the team met with more than 100 farmers in three countries, conducted customer discovery interviews, tested paper prototypes and validated multiple value propositions and a high-fidelity prototype that customers want.”
– Alessandro Colafranceschi, CEO, Tillo.app
About Us
Helping you build your business of tomorrow
Two companies… The one, a network of practitioners and futurists with a thirty-year record of helping their clients understand the forces shaping the future, and in turn devising powerful strategies to make that future a reality. The other, a growing startup building a reputation for itself as the “intel chip of innovation” – silently working in the background to empower clients to build new businesses. Both coming together to achieve a single purpose: To help companies understand, design and create the impactful innovations that will power their business of tomorrow.
That’s our origin story, and as we build our business of tomorrow, we’re determined to aid you in building yours.
“Better than Harvard!”
– Maurice Radebe, CEO, Sasol Oil
01 Understand
Strategy from the future
Our trademarked ‘Strategy from the Future’ process, guides leaders to understand the forces shaping the future and how to capitalise on them.
02 Design
Strategic mandate
We develop a Strategic Innovation Mandate to achieve exponential growth in revenue and stakeholder value, with separate targets for the Business of Tomorrow and the Business of Today.
Corporate venture fund
In line with global best practice, a corporate venture fund is established to provide the funding and governance mechanisms for exponential growth pursuits.
Innovative workspace
We design and create truly innovative workspaces that inspire, and unleash humanness and creative thinking.
03 Create
Design Thinking and Lean Startup
Through our powerful prototyping process, Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies, we fast-track high-value Business of Tomorrow opportunities based on real customer feedback.
Building new businesses
With executive support, we build a portfolio of new businesses into sources of new revenue and profit. This is done within a tested corporate venturing process where risks are reduced, and agility and return on investment are maximised.
Identified opportunities
Simultaneously, opportunities are identified to optimise the Business of Today.
We partner with you
Understand the future
Understand the fundamental shifts shaping business and society, and devise powerful strategies for the future.
Learn from client insights
Connect with your clients meaningfully, using their insights to turn ideas and hunches into game-changing businesses.
Boost organisational collaboration
Bridge the gap between strategy and execution, ensuring collaboration across your organisation.
Enhance your team
Gain a team of practitioners, who combine experience with startup thinking.
Organisations that have learned from the future
MindBullets
News from the future
Dateline: 22 March 2022
Your robot car needs a driver update
Computers can also make mistakes
Your driverless car does have a driver, but it’s not human, it’s a machine; or rather, a system, including bits of hardware and software, and things to make them operate independently and together. If it sounds pretty complicated, that’s because modern automated systems are. In fact, if it wasn’t for the sophistication of electronic components and their advanced programmability, we wouldn’t have reusable …
Dateline: 4 May 2023
From Internet to splinternet
It just ain’t the global web anymore
It started with certain sites being blocked to protect regimes and minimize dissent. But it wasn’t long before we saw the blackout of the Internet in whole nations, for days. Now we’re heading for the splintering of the Internet into multiple networks with so much bureaucracy involved, we’ll likely run out of red tape. In 2016 there were 75 Internet shutdowns globally. Within a year it rose to 108 …
Dateline: 27 February 2024
The new Dutch East India company is… Chinese
African government outsources its citizens to Alipay
They say history never repeats itself – but it sure does rhyme. In a move that can best be compared to the way large parts and populations of Africa and India were divided up and dished out to the management of private firms, such as the British and Dutch East India companies …
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