Our services
Our Services
We provide foresight capacity that gives our clients strategic and market insight. Our services work together: research informs foresight, foresight shapes strategy, and communication and facilitation carry the plan into action.
Foresight and Scenario Planning
Long-range planning capability and capacity is essential for business survival and sustainability.
Strategic planning is the dominant planning approach today. But growing complexity and uncertainty in the social and business environment mean shareholders, management and employees need to stay abreast of key trends and developments, not only in the present but in the medium to long-term future. Foresight is the established, transdisciplinary method for creating sustainable long-range plans in an inclusive way.
Put simply, foresight is a structured way of exploring the futures an organisation could face, so that the decisions it makes today still hold up tomorrow.
Foresight starts by establishing the mental models of the key role players in the organisation. It then explores the internal and external environment using a range of scanning tools and methods. The result is a picture of the organisation’s internal climate, both in its structures and in the minds of the people who run it.
Our foresight process facilitators are all graduates of the COFISA Programme.
Strategic Planning
We facilitate strategic planning for private companies, state-owned enterprises, government departments and other organisations.
Our approach is foresight driven. Before any planning session, we engage senior and middle management in Strategic Conversations and Environmental Scanning. Depending on each client’s needs, we work with strategic partners in South Africa and abroad.
Research Services
Our research services support our core mission: foresight capacity that gives clients strategic and market insight.
We provide quantitative and qualitative research to public and private sector clients through a wide network of fieldworkers across South Africa. Our researchers each have more than 20 years of experience in social, marketing and industry research.
Key focus areas:
- Socio-economic surveys
- Stakeholder attitude and perception studies
- Customer satisfaction surveys
- Market and project feasibility studies
- Climate surveys
- Impact assessment studies
Stakeholder Communication Strategies
Much of our work brings clients into closer contact with their internal and external stakeholders, so communication is part of every foresight, scenario planning and research project.
We develop communication strategies and campaigns in these areas:
- Public awareness campaigns
- Corporate communications
- Educational campaigns
- Investor relations, including broad-based empowerment shareholders
- Government communications
- Management of public participation processes
We have developed communication strategies for clients in the private sector, the public sector and non-governmental organisations.
Facilitation Services
Our facilitation goes beyond planning and research into implementing the approved plans. That includes building relationships between companies with shared interests, between employers and business owners where equity participation is a BBBEE imperative, and the strategic sourcing of suppliers.
Together with our legal partners, we draft the supporting documents: partnership agreements, share sale agreements, service level agreements, trust deeds and memoranda of incorporation.