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KEY LEARNINGS

Apply strategic foresight

• Apply strategic foresight as the ability to plan and shape the desired future.
• Understand the past in order to be able to shape the future.
• Recognize and extrapolate the changes in customer needs.
• Take a positive view of the future and use tools to make this future become a reality.
• Work with interdisciplinary teams to achieve a transversal dissemination of the mindset in the company.
• Develop a clear vision so that everybody on the team pulls in the same direction.
• Define clear-cut steps so the vision can be implemented in a targeted manner.
• To do so, use the tools described in the “Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation.”
• Develop a combined mindset from design thinking and strategic foresight for the digital vision.

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