Strategic foresight software
Strategic Foresight Software: From Horizon Scan to Strategy
KWOKKA by UBT™ scans the forces that could change your market, builds three plausible scenarios for your organization and turns them into a strategy your leadership team can act on.
Signals scored for impact and disruption
Three scenarios, about five years ahead
A one-page strategy summary
What Strategic Foresight Software Does
Strategic foresight is the practice of exploring several plausible futures so that an organization can prepare for change before it arrives. Strategic foresight software brings that practice into one place: scanning for signals of change, building scenarios and deciding what to do now.
Planning for More Than One Future
Most strategic plans assume one future: current trends, extended. Change that does not fit that line arrives as a surprise.
A single-forecast plan
Built on one expected future.
Trends reviewed once a year, if at all.
Few agreed actions if conditions shift.
A foresight process
Several plausible futures, each described in full.
Signals of change scanned whenever leadership needs them.
No-regret moves that hold up in every scenario.
Why Foresight Matters for Idea Management
Every decision about an idea rests on an assumption about the future. Foresight makes that assumption explicit before time and money are committed.
Test Ideas Against Several Futures
An idea that holds up in all three scenarios is a stronger candidate for investment.
Find Ideas in Emerging Signals
Signals of change point early to new problems and opportunities worth solving.
Set Priorities on Shared Evidence
Scored signals and agreed scenarios let priorities rest on evidence rather than opinion.
Strategic Foresight and Idea Management are both modules of KWOKKA. Your team can use the scan’s signals and the strategy’s no-regret moves as context when it reviews ideas.
How the Strategic Foresight Module Works
Three steps in one workspace, from signals of change to a strategy. A horizon scan takes about 30 seconds.
Step 1: Horizon scanning
See the Signals That Matter to Your Organization
Describe your organization and add the documents that matter, such as a strategic plan. The scan groups signals of change into six areas and scores each one for impact, disruption and strategic risk, so signals can be compared across scans.
An impact and certainty matrix that separates direct threats and emerging trends from wild cards and background noise
Strategic questions for leadership, and the second-order effects of each major signal
Step 2: AI scenario planning
Three Scenarios Built From Your Own Signals
The module tests how the strongest signals interact and selects three distinct scenarios, each with what it means for your organization and the milestones that lead there from today.
A narrative for each scenario, with its threats and opportunities for your organization
A backcast from each scenario to the present: the first step, year one and year five
Step 3: Strategy
Decide What to Do Now
Select the scenarios your leadership team wants to plan against. The module combines them into one strategy and a one-page summary for leadership and board discussions.
An immediate action, and no-regret moves that hold across scenarios
The top threats and opportunities, and the critical capabilities to build
AI That Shows Its Working
Every AI result is labelled as AI-generated, and the sources behind it are listed as indicative, so your team can check claims before acting on them. Scans run on Google Gemini, or on Azure OpenAI where your organization requires it. Client content is never used to train AI models.
Built for the Teams That Set Direction
Decide
Executives and Boards
See the forces that could change your market, the scenarios they could create and the moves that hold up in each.
Plan
Strategy and Planning Teams
Replace a single forecast with three scenarios and a strategy built from them.
Explore
Innovation Teams
Find opportunities in emerging signals and use them to shape your innovation portfolio.
Prepare
Risk and Resilience Leaders
Identify direct threats and wild cards early, with their second-order effects.
A Facilitated Foresight Lab
An Unbounded Thinking facilitator can run the module with your leadership team, from the first scan to the strategy discussion. Our innovation workshops page describes the formats.
Questions About Strategic Foresight Software
What is strategic foresight software?
Strategic foresight software helps an organization scan for signals of change, build scenarios of plausible futures and decide what to do now. KWOKKA by UBT™ runs a horizon scan, builds three scenarios and combines them into a strategy, and your team reviews each result.
How does strategic foresight differ from forecasting?
A forecast predicts one expected future from past trends. Strategic foresight explores several plausible futures, including ones that break with past trends, so that plans hold up when conditions change.
How does AI scenario planning work in KWOKKA?
The module identifies where the strongest signals from your scan interact, maps the futures those interactions could produce and selects three distinct scenarios. It then writes a narrative and a backcast for each. Your team reviews every scenario before it informs a decision.
What is a horizon scan?
A horizon scan is a structured search for early signals of change that could affect an organization. In KWOKKA, each signal is placed in one of six areas (social, technological, economic, environmental, political and values) and scored for impact, disruption and strategic risk.
What information does a scan use?
The description of your organization, its industry and region, an optional focus area and any documents you add: PDF, Word or text files up to 10 MB each, or pasted text. The business description has the largest effect on the quality of the scan.
Can we rely on the AI results?
Treat them as a structured starting point. Every result is labelled as AI-generated and lists indicative sources, and the scores follow a fixed formula. Your team verifies the claims and makes every decision.
Where is our data stored?
KWOKKA data is stored in Canada, and each organization’s data is kept separate at the database level. Our IT and Security Brief gives your IT team the details, including which AI service processes your scans.
How do we get started?
The Strategic Foresight Module is an add-on to KWOKKA. Book a walkthrough. We run a scan for an example close to your organization, then propose the set-up, training and price for your teams.
Strategic Foresight
Book a Walkthrough
We run a horizon scan for an example close to your organization and answer your team’s questions.
1
Tell us about your organization
The form takes about a minute.
2
Walkthrough call
30 minutes, from a horizon scan to scenarios and a strategy.
3
Proposal
Set-up, training and price for your teams.