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open futures  foresight consultancy  Berlin  Lausanne  Zurich

Transform the future's uncertainties into a robust business strategy

Take a broader view.

Explore the future with strategic foresight.

Gain competitive edge over companies that use conventional risk management.

foresight consultancy   Berlin  Lausanne  Zurich

strategic foresight tailored to your needs

A member of:

World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF)

Association of Professional Futurists (APF)

Swissfuture – Swiss Society for Futures Studies

At open futures, we develop processes and workshops in strategic foresight and futures thinking. open futures is led by a professional foresight specialist, our foresight director Isabelle Vuong (Master in Futures Studies, Free University Berlin).

We offer Scenario processes for strategy, training and team building,

and Futures Literacy Labs for training and team building.

We have specific expertise in the fields of sustainability, finance and the cash cycle,

cities and democracy, and arts and culture.

We help you develop strategies that successfully handle uncertainty, using our tailor-made processes.
We help you strengthen your in-house foresight capabilities with our tailored training and course offers.

Find out how we can help your business

« Dear Isabelle, we are very grateful for your tailoring and delivering the Cash Operations Future Workshop
Scenarios method to us and our CEE colleagues in October 23 in Prague.

Both us, as organizers and the participants got really engaged and found a lot of value in learning and applying the knowledge about future scenario creation with all it involves.

We really appreciate your professionalism, your energy and the dedication you applied in your work, as well as the great, effervescent atmosphere you helped creating.

We believe our cash operations leaders will be able to apply the knowledge gained towards building flexibility in our approach of the future challenges. »

Rodica Guja and Kateryna Maznikova, International Efficiency Management, Raiffeisen Bank International

Our Services

Strategic Foresight

Scenario method

Discover the prime tool of strategic foresight

and our suggested workshops formats.

Training & Team Building

Futures Literacy Lab

Discover the well-known UNESCO method to enhance futures literacy, i.e. futures thinking.

Sustainability Process

Sustainability Process

Discover one of our Sustainability workshops that takes a holistic perspective on alternative, more sustainable futures.

Training & Team Building

Myths of the Future

Explore popular beliefs about the future and create alternative, more desirable futures.

Find out how we can help your business

Navigating an uncertain future with strategic foresight


In today's volatile business environment, success depends on navigating through headwinds and turbulence – through risks and uncertainties.

Like a kite flying in the wind.

In this increasingly complex and uncertain environment, conventional risk management based on predictability becomes obsolete.

The primary tool for navigating an increasingly unpredictable environment is strategic foresight.

Building on systematic examination of the future, strategic foresight explores relevant interactions between trends and uncertainties – from consumers and technology to socio-economic and geopolitical developments.

 

The benefits: a robust strategy


Get an actionable picture of future developments.

Discover hidden opportunities and necessary changes.

Transform risks and uncertainties into a robust strategy: one that works across a wide range of futures.

 

How do we do that?

  1. By conducting thorough research into business-relevant trends, risks and uncertainties.
     

  2. By systematically exploring their interactions to identify 3 to 6 distinctive, plausible future scenarios.
     

  3. By determining what actions your organisation would need to take in each scenario, so that by aggregating them you will uncover the recurring patterns of change that drive a robust strategy.

 


When was the last time you put your organisation to the test of the future?

Find out how we can help your business
build a robust strategy in a changing environment.

Book a free meeting with our foresight director, Isabelle Vuong

through calendly, or write us an email.

Our Portfolio

Strategic Foresight

Scenarios and strategy processes and workshops for different types of organisations.

 

« A big thank for your commitment! And for designing a scenario process that was well beyond our expectations. »

 

Thomas Gayraud, co-founder, DOM architectes associés

Sustainability

Sustainability workshops with different methods, from the UNESCO Futures Literacy Labs to self-developed methods.

« This session has been fundamental to the work of the Assembly: the futures outlined today will guide members in proposing the measures needed to achieve them. »

From the website of the University of Lausanne's Transition Assembly (in French)

organised by Competence Centre in Sutainability & Dicastère Transition écologique & Campus

« Very interesting session on the future perspectives of sustainable development. »
« The workshop helps me not only for the Assembly's work, 
but also in my private life. »

Participating members of the Transition Assembly

Find out how we can help your business

strategic foresight tailored to your needs

Isabelle Vuong,
Foresight Director

Isabelle Vuong is the founder of open futures,

a foresight consultancy with offices in Switzerland and Germany.

She has a critical and inquisitive mind and a solid theoretical and practical knowledge of foresight (M.A. Freie Universität Berlin, 2020).

Since 2021, Isabelle Vuong has been leading foresight processes and workshops in the (non-)governmental and private sectors. She has an eye for future trends and uncertainties beyond the obvious, and specific expertise in the fields of sustainability, the cash cycle, arts and culture, and democracy.

Previously, she worked as a manager in the cultural sector in Switzerland, notably as the director of the national competence centre for dance in Switzerland, a 2 mio, 7-people organisation.

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Memberships

We are a Member of different professional Foresight Associations:

World Futures Studies Federation

Association of Professional Futurists

Swissfuture

Networks & Friends

Silicon Valley Europe, Darmstadt (DE)

A German IT Cluster of which Isabelle Vuong
is an Ambassador.

Themis Foresight, Berlin (DE)

A leading, German-based international Foresight Company and Think Thank

Zukünfte Bildung (DE)

A German Network in Futures Literacy

Alterna, Lausanne (CH)

A Sustainability Agency in Switzerland

Office

info@openfutures.org

 

Isabelle Vuong, CEO & Foresight Director

Email

Lea Bergantinos, Communication Support

Email

+49 177 522 19 86

+41 79 138 04 35

Berlin, Germany

Lausanne-Ecublens, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland 

Find out how we can help your business

 

« Isabelle, thank you for your great AI Keynote, you inspired everyone! »

 

Markus Pilz, CEO Vectorsoft, Frankfurt-Heusenstamm
 

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