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The system finds instant and automatic future ‘Forecasts' about

probable and possible future world conditions and turns these into:

A textual ‘Story’ in Summary form, as a Narrative with supporting

Questions and a detailed Excel spreadsheet that can be exported

The ability for you to ‘Respond’ to the Story by adding your own

project and using our extensive toolkit to develop your strategy and decide on your action plan

‘Visualizations’ of emerging change including Trend lines, Sentiment Analysis, word Clouds, Topic and heat Maps and a

4 dimensional dynamic and graphical user interface to see how

Change will likely evolve in the future

An advanced ‘Filter’ capability to Refine your search, see the

underlying Insights from where the Forecasts were extracted and

view the Tags

With this system members can create professional foresight reports and

presentations in less than half a day on any topic of their choice compared

with many days or weeks from traditional methods.

Get instant, extracted prospective on your interest topics

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Add SourcesAdd automatic and manual material’ Set up continuous tracking of sources and keywords View your Source log or All ‘Sources’ of change

Special featuresAdd, edit and view in your native languageCreate your own corporate memoryDevelop your enterprise-wide knowledge management

systemSubscribe to our multi-lingual service for an additional

fee per country

Track emerging evidence of change

To begin you can either Add Sources of interest to you or just explore our FORECASTS database

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Here you can add your own material by:Following your key sources e.g. rivals, regulators,

experts, protest groups, keywords Automatically add sources by entering: - RSS feeds - a Twitter name - or a Web search

Each day our robot (Athena) will visit your sources and automatically add relevant material she finds without any effort on your part. Using the robot will save you much time and effort compared to manual scanning and your likely to find many more scan hits too.

You can also use your computer’s bookmarks bar before dragging and dropping the link to add Insights wherever you are on the Web.

Or, Add Insights manually and upload private files and material from your subscription sites.

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Here is where you can view all the public sources we and our clients, partners and members track continuously in ‘All’

If you have added sources you can see these under ‘My’ or ‘Our’ if you are our client.

Sources also contains its own set of strategic competitive tools for you to conduct competitive analysis on your rivals, takeover targets etc.

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This market-leading service removes all the drudgery from scanning the horizon for changeOur robot, Athena, automatically extracts meta data and future FORECASTS from Insights You can search for a topic from the home page or the site search box to obtain an instant listing of future FORECASTSOr, you can visit FORECASTS in the left-hand navigation bar to see the content from latest added to the beginning of time

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ATHENA is Shaping Tomorrow's robot scanner, and your digital coach and personal assistantShe uses artificial intelligence to automatically find, extract and interpret the implications drawn from articles, reports and PowerPoints on the webShe also is increasingly helping you, our members, clients and partners with advice

and help as you workWe are striving to make her perfect but we know she makes interpretative mistakes.That's why Shaping Tomorrow still needs editors to clean up the Forecasts and Implications after she has done her work. But tests have shown that she works 700+ times faster than using manual methods. So, please cut her some slack if what she tell you is good enough for you to use and let us know if you see how we could improve her service to you

More about me here:

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Athena is also able to provide ready-made, weekly public reports covering 120+ key topics on emerging social changes, sector prospects, occupations, potential risks & opportunities, year-by-year trends and existential risks.

They are available from the left-hand navigation bar under FORECASTS

This saves you having to work out the best search string to maximise results.

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First, they search on their interest topic, using the ‘Refine’ button to home in on their focusThey maybe add more manual Insights from which the robot will add more extracted FORECASTS automatically.Next they run the ‘Summary’ or ‘Narrative’ and transfer to a Word doc, PPT or voice file and edit it into a desired format. Then they Export the spreadsheet and add more of the listing to their work.Lastly, they add pictures, format their work and publish usually in less than four hours!That’s what we do too when we publish our weekly Trend Alerts. They take just 30 minutes to prepare from a standing start; ten times faster than the old, manual methodImpress your bosses and associates with your future knowledge and ability to prepare research at pace.

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Apart from producing Trend Alerts we use FORECASTS too:

Do instant literature reviews in client workshops saving huge amounts of time

Use our tools based on the FORECASTS to develop robust answers to client questions

Develop professional Briefings and Gists for private clients

Spot newly emerging Key Drivers of change of which we were previously unaware

Alert our private clients to new issues and ideas that we know are of interest to them

Automatically update our global ‘Challenges’available to all from the front page

You can too!

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When you search for your interest topic Athena will also display the:

CONTEXTS: circumstances and facts about your interest topicDIMENSIONS: indicators of importance and magnitudeALTERNATIVES: courses of action or reaction that may arise

Use these to rapidly flesh out your knowledge of your interest topic and to create full strategic foresight reports.

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Snapshots provide an at-a-glance picture of a FORECAST’S verbatim information extracted by Athena.

You can use Snapshots to flash different forecastsbefore a virtual or workshop audience and have them comment on their views of how these may affect society or your organization.

Comments gathered can then be seen under theForum button of the specific forecast and discussedby your audience to obtain a common position.

Snapshots can also be created in paper form usingthe Print button. These can be used in workshops asfolded cards for manipulation on wall boards or tables

to create mind-maps, decision trees etc.

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You can now use the automatically extracted questions gleaned by Athena to present links to potential ‘Ideas’, solutions and answers to these questions that may help you make better decisions today.

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