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Strategic Foresight: Stage 6 – Acting on an Agreed Agenda

July 20, 2017/in Insights /by John Ratcliffe

Acting on an Agreed Agenda Given that strategic foresight inherently has a long and broad horizon, the challenge to those concerned with taking action today to secure a better future tomorrow lies largely in forging the link between the vision ahead and the bottom-line now. This final phase of “Acting” is primarily about communication – […]

Strategic Foresight: Stage 5 – Planning Strategic Options

July 4, 2017/in Insights /by John Ratcliffe

Planning Strategic Options Strategic planning options are the policy pathways that transport the realm of long-term, big-picture vision to the reality of the need for a set of actionable tactics to tackle present circumstances. Such planning thus provides an organisation with a roadmap showing how it can get from where it is, to where it […]

Strategic Foresight: Stage 4 – Visioning a Preferred Future

June 15, 2017/in Insights /by John Ratcliffe

Visioning a Preferred Future The essential purpose of Strategic Foresight is to make better, and more informed decisions in the present. All organisations, however, need to ask the basic questions about their future: “Where are we going? What do we want to be? And how do we know what we want to be doing?” In achieving […]

The Age of #PropTech Dawns!

June 13, 2017/in Insights /by John Ratcliffe

Contrary to ‘populist’ opinion, ‘globalisation’ has not stopped. Digital convergence, oblivious of boundaries, has moved it ascendantly to the clouds. Vast streams of information and data constantly wash around our communication systems connecting everything, everywhere to everyone. This onslaught of the ‘Internet of Things’ is transforming the very way we live, work and play. So […]

Climate Risk & Resilience – A Hillbreak Call to Action

May 17, 2017/in Insights /by Jon Lovell

Hillbreak was privileged to be invited to participate in the inaugural GRESB Spring Conference at Siemens’ inspiring building, The Crystal (dual-rated BREEAM Outstanding and LEED Platinum), in London earlier this month. Miles Keeping, co-founder of Hillbreak, was asked to join the first panel of the day, to discuss Climate Risk & Resilience, a session moderated […]

Strategic Foresight: Stage 3 – Forecasting Alternative Scenarios

May 16, 2017/in Insights /by John Ratcliffe

Forecasting Alternative Scenarios Essentially, forecasting involves generating the widest range of creative possibilities, then consolidating and prioritising the most useful for an organisation to consider and prepare for as it moves ahead. Appreciating that a key tenet of strategic foresight is that the future is inherently unknowable, and efforts to get it exactly right are futile, our […]

Strategic Foresight: Stage 2 – Scanning the Horizon

March 30, 2017/in Insights /by John Ratcliffe

Scanning the Horizon In this second article in our six-part series on Conducting Corporate Foresight, we focus on the Scanning the Horizon phase, which follows on from having established the Strategic Question that the Foresight process seeks to answer. Purpose A prerequisite of all serious strategic policy studies is “Horizon Scanning”, alternatively known as environmental scanning. This […]

Social Value – A Force for Good?

March 24, 2017/in Insights /by John Ratcliffe

Force for good – or the Emperor’s new clothes? “Doing well by doing good” has long been a familiar dictum in both the ethical business and the responsible built environment milieux. Sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the phrase seems forever fashionable, yet remains remarkably vague. Its latest manifestation, over the past couple of decades, has […]

Hillbreak verdict on Government “MEES” guidance

March 3, 2017/in Insights /by Miles Keeping

The Government recently published its guidance to landlords on Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for non-domestic property, a matter on which much confusion and uncertainty has prevailed. So, have the outstanding issues now been resolved, or do material unknowns continue to cast a headache for the real estate industry? Miles Keeping, who chaired the succession of commercial property groups […]

Strategic Foresight: Stage 6 – Acting on an Agreed Agenda

Strategic Foresight: Stage 5 – Planning Strategic Options

Strategic Foresight: Stage 4 – Visioning a Preferred Future

The Age of #PropTech Dawns!

Climate Risk & Resilience – A Hillbreak Call to Action

Strategic Foresight: Stage 3 – Forecasting Alternative Scenarios

Strategic Foresight: Stage 2 – Scanning the Horizon

Hillbreak verdict on Government “MEES” guidance

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