The Centre for Future Studies (CFS) is a strategic futures consultancy enabling organisations to anticipate and manage change in their external environment. Our foresight work involves research and analysis across the spectrum of political, economic, social and technological themes. Our clients include national and international companies, not-for-profit organisations, government departments and agencies. Our future thinking expertise lies in: Detecting and mapping change in the strategic landscape Applying the skills of re-perception and reframing Developing shared strategic narratives Translating future thinking into strategic advantage Our methodologies and processes include tools to ground future thinking in the realities of today’s strategic decisions so that practical, valued outcomes are achieved. - Researching the future: penetrating research, incisive analysis and forecasts with time horizons from five to twenty years. - Visioning the future: the design and facilitation of group future visioning workshops. - Scenario planning: Scenario thinking processes and programmes to build a plausible future view for each organisation. - Horizon scanning: External scanning resources and expertise and also works with organisations to assist in building an in-house environmental scanning capability. - Future thinking workshops: designed to build future thinking capabilities and expertise in organisations: - Research and analysis for thought leadership: working with PR agencies and their clients to present profile building narratives.