Future Discovery Framework

Description
An overview of the 'future discovery' journey to uncovering multiple possible futures. This is imperative for re-imagining future focused strategy under the rapid change demands of disruption and uncertainty.
A mental map of a journey is vital to reaching selected or key milestones and your final destination. This is no different when imagining a new or different future for your business. The milestones and journey for the re-imagined future include key concepts like possible, plausible, probable and preferable futures?
The Business Discovery Framework is an outline of key activities and processes to consider and use (preferably as a focused methodology) to sift through future options based on pertinent information about trends, scenarios and other future analysis techniques. Once these new options, seen as possibilities and plausible futures have been agreed as such, it is then a final requirement to solicit probable and then preferred futures to use as the basic information or content to revise and re-imagine business strategy. This process can be undertaken in-house provided resources are allocated on a full time basis with the specific task of using a rich source of external, internal and research data. The best outcomes are using a professional body (futurist or known expert group) to guide the analytical processes selected for the methodology and most importantly to help arrive at narratives about the future that you can use in day to day operations to move productively towards a future (with more than one new option) that you as a business, along with stakeholders, have collaboratively set as desirable and sustainable.