As a leader you make important decisions about the future of your business every day. So you need to understand what issues, changes, events and conditions may impact those decisions. This is where we can help.

For example, do you understand how climate change will affect you? Are you concerned by fluctuating oil prices? Do you know why we have global food shortages or for how long these will continue? Do you ‘get’ the relationship between demographics and customer demand? I mean really understand? We do. Which is why, every day, we are called upon to interpret these trends for governments and multinational corporations around the world.

Have you cushioned your business from the impacts we are all feeling from the rise of China and India? Are you well positioned to take advantage of new hybrid business models coming out of Asia? Do you understand how proposed changes to US policy will impact business in our region? Are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities offered by new trade agreements?We do. Which is why our insights are being used to design the State of the World Forum’s Global Transition Initiative everywhere from the US to Brazil to Australia.

Have you figured out how the internet is turning business models upside down and why? Do you know what crowdsourcing is or how to benefit from it? Do you appreciate how value innovation can open up entirely new markets?We do. In fact our staff includes some of the world’s foremost experts on open source business models and Web 2.0 business applications.

Did you foresee the meltdown of the US financial market, which has since led to today’s credit squeeze and the global recession? We did. In 2005! Which is why those businesses that took our advice are doing extremely well in the current environment.

What would your business be like if you had ‘seen’ the unforeseeable? What would you be doing differently today if you had thought carefully about these possibilities and acted on them? Do you understand the new rules for business success? Unfortunately we no longer live in a world of risk. We are in a world of uncertainty that grows more complex every day. You must constantly learn about the issues and factors at work in the wider world and longer term.

Do you have the chance to think about the opportunities and threats the future presents? To think about your strategy in different futures? Do you have someone outside of your company with whom you can seriously test strategic ideas and challenge your assumptions? Are you confident you know as much as you need to know so as to guarantee the future success of your business? Do you need better strategic foresight?

Perhaps we can help you. Under the direction of Distinguished Professor Dr Richard Hames, one of the world’s most influential strategists, recently referred to as one of the century’s most foresightful corporate philosophers, the Asian Foresight Institute offers deep insights from strategic intelligence coupled with expert strategic advice tailored to the future of your business and industry. We help leaders like you learn about their world, evaluate current strategies, imagine robust alternatives, innovate and execute change faster than their competitors. Our clients include some of the world’s most innovative companies as well as politicians and bureaucrats presiding over some of the world’s most robust economies.

What we bring to you as strategic foresight practitioners:

• A deep knowledge of today’s world – especially significant trends and the different ways these may interact with one another to create alternative futures and opportunities for you
• A different set of questions that open up new possibilities and strategic options
• A fresh toolkit for visualizing complex information that can help you and your colleagues share new knowledge and apply it to your business in the form of better decisions
• Connections to other minds, sources of knowledge and ways of thinking and knowing
• A global research capability offering alternative perspectives that will rapidly help you identify and challenge your assumptions and help you find new insights

Becoming a member of the Asian Foresight Institute:
By becoming a member of the Asian Foresight Institute you are helping future-proof your business. But you are also helping your economy become far more resilient. This is vital at a time when global competition is growing more intense, issues such as global warming and water scarcity are altering how we think, and the community is demanding that business acts with greater responsibility for its behaviors and products.

What will AFI membership cost?
Corporate Membership costs just USD 10,000 a year. For this you get strategic intelligence bulletins, insights, tailored personal advice, global networking opportunities and access to the latest futures research by acknowledged leaders in the field.

What is the value of AFI Membership?
Today’s most successful corporations and governments are those that are alert to change. They make wise decisions and act promptly based upon the best intelligence at their disposal. They are never, ever, taken by surprise. On the contrary, they seem to have a knack of anticipating and adapting to changes that cause other, less prepared, companies to hit the wall.
Imagine having the confidence to act boldly – even in the worst of times. Imagine knowing what paths the future will most likely take. Visualize the competitive advantage that can be yours from anticipating ahead of time how global conditions will shape opportunities in your world. Picture how your enterprise can remain ahead of the game by implementing the latest thinking on managing, organizing and leading.

These are just some of the advantages membership of the Asian Foresight Institute brings you and your company. Annual membership of the AFI also buys you and your organisation the following additional benefits:

• Four quarterly issues of Emergence – a strategic intelligence bulletin that monitors significant patterns and trends, giving you advanced warning of disruptive changes on the horizon – even trends you had previously dismissed or had not seen coming!
• Attendance at two half-yearly analytical business breakfast briefings where you, together with some of our global strategic experts, will examine the risks and opportunities for business in your region – with regard to changes that are on the horizon both here and elsewhere in the world
• Two private x 1 hour consultations with one of our futurists aimed at reviewing the robustness of your current thinking and to canvas fresh opportunities for working out how best to adapt to significant changes that are looming on your horizon
• Access to networking opportunities through The Hames Group, a globally distributed think-tank and futures design laboratory of over 300 thought leaders located around the world
• Membership of our Futures Innovation Exchange