One of the exclusive benefits of the Imperial Business Partners programme is an opportunity to work with our in-house group researching the longer-term future: Tech Foresight. 

Tech Foresight is an in-house futures research function: bringing a foresight view to business.  

Drawing directly from the world-leading research and innovation at Imperial, the Tech Foresight team presents a unique perspective on future trends research. The team is geared to collaborate with you on strategic futures projects, expert panels, future technology showcase events and experience journeys at Imperial.

A global consumer goods IBP member wanted to explore how emerging trends and technologies might impact their R&D site and ways of working on the mid to long term. To do this, Imperial Tech Foresight developed a set of future scenarios based on Imperial academic expertise. Our foresight specialists, assisted by leading Imperial academics, then ran a bespoke one-day workshop. As a result, our client’s s strategy team members had the opportunity to ask questions about the possible futures, explore new ways of problem solving together and discover ideas for a resilient and adaptive R&D approach in the next 10-15 years. “The Imperial foresight sessions gave us some really challenging future scenarios, that pushed our long-term thinking outside our comfort zone – in a good way!”