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Custom Strategic Foresight Research
Custom Strategic Foresight Research is a specialized service offered by the Alliance for Innovation that helps local governments prepare for emerging trends, evolving conditions, and long-term community needs. Rather than focusing only on past performance or current challenges, this research supports leaders in exploring multiple possible futures and identifying strategic options that strengthen decision-making today.
Through structured analysis and practitioner-informed insight, Custom Strategic Foresight Research helps organizations better understand the forces shaping their operating environment, including demographic change, workforce shifts, technology adoption, fiscal pressures, and evolving service expectations. These insights help leaders align priorities, evaluate risks and opportunities, and make more intentional investments that support resilient and adaptive communities.
Because the Alliance works within a national practitioner network, this research also connects local priorities with lessons emerging across peer communities.
The result is a practical foresight framework that supports stronger strategic planning, more confident leadership conversations, and improved alignment between today’s decisions and tomorrow’s opportunities.
Custom Strategic Foresight Research helps local governments move beyond reacting to change and begin shaping what comes next.
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Custom Foresight Capacity Training for Your Organization
The Alliance for Innovation offers virtual custom foresight capacity training designed specifically for local government organizations that want to build shared understanding and practical skills in strategic foresight across their leadership teams. Tailored to local priorities, this training helps organizations strengthen their ability to anticipate change, explore emerging trends, and make more confident long-term decisions while continuing to manage day-to-day operations.
Unlike introductory sessions designed for individuals, custom foresight capacity training supports organization-wide alignment by engaging multiple departments and leadership levels at the same time. Participants learn practical foresight tools, such as domain mapping, trends analysis, implications mapping, scenario planning, and the Three Horizons Framework, and apply them directly to issues relevant to their community. This creates a shared language for discussing change and helps teams connect current initiatives with future opportunities.
These sessions are especially valuable for organizations:
Training is interactive and applied, ensuring participants leave with insights they can immediately use in planning conversations, project development, and organizational decision-making. Alliance members receive access to these customized training opportunities at preferred member rates, making it easier to extend foresight capability across the organization. Services are also available to non-members.
Online custom foresight capacity training helps local government teams build a shared approach to preparing for the future together.
Strategic Foresight Consulting Workshop
The Alliance for Innovation offers on-site Strategic Foresight consulting workshops that introduce leadership teams to practical foresight principles and tools designed specifically for local government environments. These facilitated sessions help organizations step back from immediate operational pressures and engage in structured conversations about emerging trends, future community needs, and the innovations required to prepare for what comes next.
A central component of the workshop is the Three Horizons Framework, which helps leaders balance today’s operational priorities with mid-term experimentation and long-term transformation. Through guided discussion and collaborative exercises, participants diagnose current conditions, imagine the future they want to create, and identify transition strategies that connect present decisions with future goals. The workshop creates a shared language across departments and leadership levels, making it easier to discuss change constructively and align innovation efforts across the organization.
These on-site engagements are highly interactive and tailored to local priorities.
They support executive teams, department leaders, councils, and cross-functional groups as they explore how foresight tools can strengthen planning conversations, improve coordination across initiatives, and build confidence in navigating uncertainty. Many organizations use the workshop as a starting point for broader innovation efforts or to support strategic planning and organizational alignment initiatives.
As part of Alliance membership, organizations receive access to these consulting services at preferred member rates, making it easier to build internal capacity for anticipatory leadership and future-focused decision-making without the cost barriers often associated with specialized consulting services. Services are also available to non-member organizations.
On-site Strategic Foresight workshops provide a practical entry point into navigating uncertainty together. For more information contact Hauson Le.
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