Clients
All the methods used by SFP are agnostic – that is, they can be used across a variety of applications. Here, we include a broad sample of our client base.
- Commercial customers include City University London, Länsförsäkringar Insurance, LKAB Mining and Vattenfall Energy
- Government customers include Swiss Defence Procurement Agency, Swedish Postal Services, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, The South African Centre for Science and Industry Research and the Portuguese Army
- Public bodies include UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, US Centre for Science and Policy Outcomes, Japan’s Earthquake Disaster Mitigation and Research Centre, and the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
Commercial clients
The best tools for business: A wide variety of business leaders use Strategy Foresight to improve their ability to achieve their goals and objectives. They are bringing better, smarter decision-making processes into their companies in industries ranging from transportation and security to mining and public policy.
- Mining and Petrochemical
Your organisation knows it needs to change, but where do you start?
Mining firms need to be on the cutting-edge in management and operations. Strategy Foresight Partnership enables you to plan with confidence and execute successfully.
The mining industry is an increasingly complex environment. To stay ahead of your competitors, you must move forward in technology and production.
SFP can give you the advantage in a highly competitive global marketplace. Our proven process for structured decision making improves leaders' ability to execute to plan, achieving their mission-critical.
Here’s how clients in energy and utilities are using SFP’s methodologies and processes goals:
• LKAB mining uses Morphological Analysis to address the ecological, social ad economic impacts of continued mining operations of a strategic national resource.
- Energy and Utilities
When you are under pressure to achieve deliverables that have large-scale impact, Strategy Foresight Partnership can smooth the flow of operations.
Energy and utility companies must respond effectively to changes in consumer demand, Government regulations, market fluctuations and other unpredictable external forces. Power, gas and water must be delivered reliably and safely.
Use SFP’s processes to bring together multiple stakeholders, enabling groups to:
• Define and prioritise criteria
• Evaluate alternatives
• Make decisions and justify those decisions
• Change course quickly when needed e.g. extreme winters, low gas supplies, etc.
Here’s how clients in energy and utilities are using SFP’s methodologies and processes:
• Vantenfall makes a variety of decisions in exploring the diversification strategies in its business model
• SKB uses morphological analysis to give clarity in the contentious subject of depositing spent nuclear material.
- Finance
Clarity in a sea of uncertainty Strategy Foresight enables leaders in the finance industry to confidently mitigate risk and navigate a clear path for their organisations. Finance executives face increasing difficult challenges in the current economic climate. They must excel at innovation with fewer resources in a world full of complex financial instruments and increasing regulatory oversight.
These challenges include managing the finance portfolio for the optimal risk-reward frontier, capital planning prioritisation, management selection, IT investments, and more.
Using SFP’s proven decision processes, investment teams can clarify and prioritise criteria, evaluate alternatives, make decisions, justify those decisions, and alter course quickly when needed.
Here's how our clients in the finance sector are putting SFP’s facilitated methodologies to gain clarity in their organisations:
- City University London is improving the quality and quantity of investment grade deal flow for their portfolio of start ups and university spin-outs. Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, an evaluative too was developed to analyse the commercial, technical and management feasibility in funding technology start ups, and mitigating their future risk across the business life cycle.
- Länsförsäkringar, a leading Swedish Insurance company, has developed insurance products in response to possible global scenarios ranging from financial crash to climate shock. Using Morphological Analysis, they modelled uncertainty surrounding demographics, customer segmentation and needs and in traffic levels.
Specialisation for every project: A wide variety of Government agencies use Strategy Foresight for better outcomes in business processes. These range from capital planning and project portfolio management to security intelligence and future resource allocation.
The Strategy Foresight decision process shows you exactly which course of action can help you reach a goal, and which people, projects or ideas are the most likely to deliver success.
Choose your specialisation:
- Strategic planning
Demystify the gap between theory and real-world execution of your strategic plan. Companies must be agile, adjusting goals and executing quickly in response to external events.
The real challenge is to achieve buy-in to the plan among diverse stakeholders. An effective group decision making process allows stakeholders to make rational decisions that align business processes, projects and resources with the plan.
The core offering of Strategy Foresight Partnership is totality planning that identifies the boundary conditions and generates alternatives in the design space, making effective group decisions to move your team in the right direction.
Strategy Foresight facilitates you to engage with your mission-critical challenges because clarity matters:
• Gain clarity in your complex (wicked) problems
• Develop strategic alignment and buy-in amongst your stakeholders
• Anticipate intended and unintended consequences of policy decisions
• Achieve a more optimal allocation of resources by using an integrated methodology to look across the business and your value chain
- Product portfolio planning
This can be extraordinarily complex. As senior managers and executives, you must bring together a huge number and variety of resources and competing actors to create real value.
Strategy Foresight makes product portfolio planning simpler by giving you clarity amongst disparate pieces for structured analysis, group participation and consensus. SFP enables you to balance the demands of groups with competing objectives.
Your team can:
• Build the best-in-class project prioritisation and evaluation process.
• Determine optimal projects and new investments.
• Evaluate how new projects fit and hedge the current portfolio
• Allocate (or re-allocate) resources across the project portfolio to maximise returns.
- R&D innovation
In world of complexity with rapid access to mind-boggling information, how do you innovate quickly, use fewer resources and combine the collective creativity internally with the external world?
How can you anticipate market shrinkage or disruptive innovation that will put an unexpected pressure on the bottom line, creating instability across the organisation?
Strategy Foresight helps you fill your pipeline with innovative projects and products that are aligned with your strategic plan, enabling you to:
• Bring together customers, suppliers, distributors, and partners to guide product innovation concepts
• Be clear that you have funded the optimal product innovation allocation targets.
Our decision software helps you set priorities, evaluate alternatives, and make trade-offs. Decision Lens enables you to look at the entire set of issues at once, and develop criteria and break them into manageable components.
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Governments and Public Bodies
Decision support for Government: Strategy Foresight Partnership generates better decision making for Government leaders. Our process enables collaborative decision making in every area of management.
We serve a wide variety of Government sectors. Since every organisation is different, we tailor SFP’s processes to best serve you.
Select your sector:
- Civilian Agencies
Effective Decision Making in the Civilian Sector
Civilian agencies must be able to justify activities and budget requests. You are expected to produce measurable results that deliver maximum value on taxpayer’s money in times of austerity.
Strategy Foresight helps you achieve accountability. Our proven framework for rational decision making enables civil servants prioritise projects and resource allocation for the best match with the strategic plan. Your stakeholder teams spend less time and effort to arrive at a decision
A key feature of our decision software is its digital audit trail capability. It enables you to present the details of any part of the process, so you can support program recommendations and budget requests submitted to senior managerial and executive boards. When key drivers and metrics change, you can make adjustments quickly and easily -- in a day or two, instead of weeks.
Serving a wide variety of Government organisations, our decision-support processes have been selected by the:
• Swedish National Rescue Services for industrial and transport disaster management
• South Africa’s Council of Science and Industrial Research for a variety of topics from social order to developing an African space agency program
- Defence Sector
Innovate more with less
Defence departments around the globe must continue to innovate in the way it does business, ranging from setting priorities to funding programs, from threat assessments in an asymmetric world to deploying its workforce with latest armaments in the most cost-effective manner.
The need for realism is a prevailing theme, to ensure that expenditures are not tied up in the pursuit of unnecessary programs. Strategy Foresight provides a rational framework for the decision process, helping ensure that decisions are aligned with the needs of the DoD.
Strategy foresight enables the armed forces and other agencies to make their decision processes more efficient, creative and responsive for all key defence functions.
Accountability is a key feature of our decision software. When you must explain or justify decisions, SFP’s audit trail function provides the details on what was considered, shows how the process evolved and how members arrived at the decision.
Here's how our clients in the defence sector are using SFP’s methodologies and processes: - The Swiss Defence Procurement Agency uses morphological analysis to support the allocation of funds and prioritization of programs for its force structure, resource and assessment directorate
- National and Public Security
Thinking about the unthinkable
National and public security agencies face many challenges: Disseminating information across a multitude of agencies and intelligence-gathering organisations, decoding signal from noise and assessing unexpected and new threats on a daily basis.
At the same time, security personnel are required to exercise tight financial discipline. They must make smarter decisions about the optimal ways to eliminate redundancy and provide clear guidance where best to invest resources to meet their mission in enhancing security. Strategy Foresight provides a proven framework for giving clarity to complex, mutating security threats.
Serving a wide variety of Government and private sector organisations, Strategy Foresight methods are used by the:
• Swedish National Police Board for structuring and modelling the types and cause of social exclusion and recommending mitigation measures
• US Centre for Science Policy and Outcomes in engaging stakeholders concerning the socio-political and ethical issues in the governance of scientific and technological developments
- Intelligence Sector – Governmental and Corporate
In an asymmetric world, clarity matters…
In the new world order world, intelligence departments are under tremendous pressure to give clear thinking to allow effective intelligent decision-making. Senior analysts must ensure unity of effort across the organisation, justify spending in the face of budgetary constraints and show that they are making optimal use of intelligence assets.
Effective intelligence analysis requires teams of experts who contribute their knowledge that need strong extracted and captured by strong facilitators. These teams must expand the range of possible outcomes, by challenging current assumptions and thinking about the unthinkable to stay ahead of the curve.
Strategy foresight provides a clear framework that dramatically facilitates the decision making process across each phase of the intelligence cycle, and for all sources of information, however weakly emerging or obscure.
Currently, SFP is working with European partners (Framework 7) on the perception of security, from the personal to national levels.
In world of complexity with rapid access to mind-boggling information, how do you innovate quickly, use fewer resources and combine the collective creativity internally with the external world?
How can you anticipate market shrinkage or disruptive innovation that will put an unexpected pressure on the bottom line, creating instability across the organisation?
Strategy Foresight helps you fill your pipeline with innovative projects and products that are aligned with your strategic plan, enabling you to:
• Bring together customers, suppliers, distributors, and partners to guide product innovation concepts
• Be clear that you have funded the optimal product innovation allocation targets
Our decision software helps you set priorities, evaluate alternatives, and make trade-offs. Decision Lens enables you to look at the entire set of issues at once, and develop criteria and break them into manageable components.
To learn more about decision making for R&D and innovation, download these complimentary templates: Using the Zwicky or morphological box for developing
- novel medical products
- marketing services across the new media
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