How to Use These Forecasts

Applications and Use Cases

As our forecasts are released with an open licence, we hope to capture important use cases, which we will share here. In the meantime, below are some ways you can apply them in your organisation or context.

Strategic Planning

  • Stress-test 3-5 year plans against systemic shifts

  • Identify second-order impacts on operations and markets

  • Develop early warning indicators for tracking changes

Scenario Development

  • Build evidence-based scenarios for strategic planning

  • Create contingency plans for adaptation vs breakdown outcomes

  • Design strategies that work across divergent regional trajectories

Investment Strategy

  • Assess stranded asset risks from deglobalization

  • Identify opportunities in resilience infrastructure

  • Evaluate technology bets against fragmenting standards

Policy & Governance

  • Anticipate regulatory divergence across jurisdictions

  • Design adaptive frameworks for fragmented systems

  • Develop bilateral strategies as multilateral systems weaken

Innovation Direction

  • Prioritize technologies that function across divided domains

  • Design for regional rather than global markets

  • Build for incompatible standards and regulatory regimes

Executive Education

  • Frame board conversations around structural change

  • Challenge "return to normal" assumptions

  • Ground leadership discussions in observable evidence