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Trends Research Workshop

The future is already on the table.

You just do not see it yet. One day with your team, almost 500 trends and your own Trend Radar. You go home with vision, not with a report.

See what is not visible yet.

The world is upside down. It is not strange that your strategy still leans on the world of yesterday. But if you only look at what you expect, you miss what is coming. See the difference, to make a difference.

Trend Deck 2030

More than 500 trends for 2030

With access to our online Trend Deck 2030 you are and stay up to date.

The online course

Rather learn to do trend research yourself?

The same method as in the workshop, at your own pace. From setting the scope to your own Trend Radar, with 21 practice examples from pioneers such as IKEA, LEGO and Maersk. Including the digital Trend Deck and the canvas. In English.

  • 50steps
  • 4.5 hoursvideo explanation
  • 21practice
    examples
  • Lifetimeaccess
An impression of the online course Trends Research
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The workshop

From noise to radar.

01
Signals

Looking

We wake your team up with surprising developments from technology, culture, economy and politics.

02
Trends

Spotting

With the Trend Deck you hunt for signals. What do you really see? And what does it mean?

03
Meta trends

Clustering

Loose signals become meta trends. Suddenly the bigger picture appears.

04
Driver of change

Radar

You build your own Trend Radar: now, next, beyond. Directly usable for strategy, innovation and communication.

View the whole programme of the Trend Session →
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Looking for
the undercurrent.
What you take with you and can share!

Build your own radar.

The Trend Radar canvasDownload the Trend Radar canvas
  1. Your own Trend RadarA 360 degree view of your context, from now to far away.
  2. The meta trends that matter to youClustered, interpreted and shared by the whole team.
  3. Choices for MondayTranslated into decisions, strategy, innovation or communication.
  4. Your own Trend Box 2030A physical box with trend cards, tailored to your sector.
  5. A team that looks differentlyThe skill stays, even when the trends change.

Examples from practice.

We show how front runners spot shifts early and already act on them today. Then you ask the same question of your own organisation.

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Half day or full day.

Always in house and tailor made: your context, your challenges, your ambitions.

Half day

An update
on trends

  • Inspiration: the developments you had not seen yet
  • Spotting trends with the Trend Deck
  • A first draft of your Trend Radar
Plan a half day
Full day

From radar
to choices

  • Everything from the half day
  • Clustering and interpreting meta trends
  • Your complete Trend Radar, translated into choices
Plan a full day
Arjan Postma
Arjan PostmaFutures Academy
Jeroen Boschma
Jeroen BoschmaFutures Academy
The book Seeing what is not visible yet
Seeing what is not visible yetThe new book by Arjan and Jeroen

Guided by Arjan Postma, more than thirty years of vision and strategy, and Jeroen Boschma, founder of Keesie and author of Generatie Einstein.

See the difference,
to make a difference.