Future Mapping

The purpose of Future Map is to highlight strategic opportunities and emerging needs and thus programmatic priorities. 

You and your team will develop a shared map of key trends in the recent past, present, and three years ahead. You will review the map, identify patterns, and discuss the importance and urgency of different trends and how this may impact your organisation and work. This can strengthen planning and enable proactive and timely action.   

This exercise is good to do at the beginning of a new strategy period or new programme but can be done at any point as part of a planning- or a strategy revision process.

This exercise can be done as a ‘quick and dirty’ exercise to bring about a quick overview and start discussions or as a more in-depth analysis, depending on how much time you can allocate for the exercise.