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50+ smart tools, 18 canvases, a full 7-step solution to your innovation+, business model and change paths.

Innovation++ You Can Take to the Bank

Innovation approaches (and the companies who serve them up) are way too siloed and way too tribal ; our change umbrella is so much wider – find out about our #Next30.

F:N's Top Fifteen World-Beating Keynotes & Briefings for 2022

The future of…, innovation++…technology…transformation…customer..culture…now all digitally delivered.

Pandemic Sensemaking and Leading into the Next Normal

We are in the middle of a generation-defining moment questioning everything we do – Futureproofing decided to do something about it.

Futureproofing - The Future Beyond Innovation

It’s part manifesto, part field guide for what works, part playbook to get leaders to next and part resource bank to help change agents..

FUTUREPROOFING — The Promise of Bigger, Bigger, Bolder & Simpler Futures

…Clients Need No More Status Quo,  Innovation Theatre or Shots in the Dark

Futureproofing bridges the distance between corporate aspiration and…

… innovation++ success, business model delivery & transformational growth.

No insta-experts, dreamy futurists or head-in-the-clouds consultants here, our network brings world-beating experience, leading edge tools, practitioner thinking and unrivalled passion for change & the future.

Status quo and innovation theatre are no longer options. We help translate marketplace trends and innovation potential into real business. Let’s anticipate AND deliver your future now.
Futureproofing© will help deliver bespoke innovation++ solutions sized for your organization, your teams and your leadership.  Find out how we outsmart, outdesign & outdeliver.


UNIQUE, FUTUREPROOFING OFFERINGS THAT MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN, SURVIVE & THRIVE:

Futureproofing Sprints
Getting to Next in 30 Weeks or Less
  • Intense, Iterative Sprint Approach Guranteed to Get Chnage Teams to Next
  • Proprietary Front, Middle and Back End Innovation++ Approach, Includes Getting Started, Scaling and Building for Sustainability Modules
  • Informed by Over 18 Innovation Management Canvases and 50+ Tools
  • Forces Leaders to Diverge & Converge, Eliminate Bias, Silos and Professional Discipline
  • Options to Commercialize and Take Habits Company Wide
Foresight Ventures
The Freshest Change Intelligence Efforts
  • Six Major Intelligence Ventures Annually
  • Equipping New Intelligence for Change Agents & Leaders
  • Global Expert & Visionary-Informed
  • Cover the Full #Next30 Futureproofing Change Universe
  • Sponsor Opportunities, Executive Briefings and Actionable Reports
Futureproofing Engage
The Most Relevant Topics, Always Hitting the Mark
  • 50+ Keynotes Addressing Today & Tomorrow’s Biggest Questions
  • 20+ Workshops Galvanizing Teams to Core Imperatives
  • 8+ Immersion Formats Bepoke to Companies – Accelerate Knowledes and Challnge Understanding
  • Always receiving 4+ out of 5 on performance
  • Board-, Executive-, Business Team-, All Staff-, Partner-, Customer Levels
Futureproofing Business Models Hatchery
The World's Leading Business Model Launcher
  • Mapped over 200 Potential Business Model Archetypes, Examples and Fit for Value
  • Building Best Potential Value Proposition, Capture & Generation Elements
  • Active Development – not t just identifying elements, but exploring connections and importable solutions
  • Informed by Top Global Innovation & Business Model Change Agents
  • Can lead to delivery of model through Futureproofing Sprints, Audits & Ecosystem Building
Futureproofing Change Counsel
Superior On-Demand Talent for Top Challenges
  • Innovator in Residence, On-Demand Corporate Venture and Innovation Talent all with 20+ Years Experience in a variety of Chnage Environments
  • True Senior Level Partnership, Flexible to Company Needs, No need for Headcount Bump Required
  • Projects could include: Special Project Discovery, Executive Counsel and Network Expansions & Learning, Audits of Current Practice & Cultures, Talent Search
  • Broadest Pallette of Industry Exposure and Public/Private/NFP situations
  • Provides Options to Particpate in Foresight Ventures, Training and Content, Audits
Future Readiness Audits
The Strongest, Most Holistic AssessmentS
  • Future-readiness Audits at Company-wide, Change Team and Individual Levels
  • Vary in extensiveness – Lite (22 factors), Basic (80 factors) and Comprehensive (165 factors)
  • Benchmarked and Indexed to Industry &  Situation
  • Includes Recommendation and Implmenation of Best, Dscipline-Agnostic Interventions
  • Can Lead to Ongoing Engagements – Sprints, Counsel and Leadership Training

THE BOOK: The Future Beyond Innovation ... Our Playbook for a Faster, Bolder Age

Times change .. and so should your thinking. We have a fresh new change argument to the world – 1/4 manifesto, 1/4 field guide, 1/4 playbook & 1/4 resource bank … all in a 250 page attractive bundle. No other book corrals the following six arguments together into one umbrella form:

  • A Future Beyond Innovation – less bias, more impact & forward-minded
  • The Change World Has Changed  – relevant for the accelerated 2020s
  •  “See, Learn, Decide, Commit” – a complete, overarching change process
  • A Different Mindset,  Spectrum &  Challenge – growth-driven, all-encompassing focus & corporate-sized mission
  • Innovation You Can Take to the Bank – a practitioner’s roadmap,  18 canvases, 50+ tools and 75 canvases.
  • “Not Just Another Book” Book – user-friendly, extra value-add resources & interactive forums

We’ve cherry picked the future-ready practices that have proven to work best, removed the fluff, and given leaders a starting point to bring successful new processes, products, experiences, transformations, breakthroughs & business models across the finish line. Arrives October, 2022.

WHAT’S COMING UP NEXT In 2022 and 2023:

Futureproofing Next - The Book

THE BOOK FOR THE FUTURE BEYOND INNOVATION – A FIELD GUIDE & PLAYBOOK –

OCTOBER’22

 

FN Foresight Intelligence

CORPORATE INNOVATION PLAYBOOK – WAVE III : HOW THE BEST INNOVATE

AUGUST’22

 

Futureproofing U - The Best in Corporate Innovation++ Training

INNOVATION TRAINING – FUTUREPROOFING FOR CxOs

JANUARY’23

 

 

The Futureproofing Awards

RECOGNIZING THE GLOBAL BEST IN CHANGE, INNOVATION & BOLD VISION

APRIL’23

 

 

SOLVING CORPORATE INNOVATION'S FOUR BIGGEST BARRIERS

Futureproofing  is getting your future innovation+ conveyor belt moving quickly and seamlessly by tackling the four things larger companies don’t typically do well:

  • See – companies tend to be blinded to marketplace threats, “black swan” moments & just-out-of-grasp opportunities and have difficulty aligning on their top internal assets, leadership and external gaps.
  • Learn – companies don’t tend to build a sustainable, scalable and disciplined process to explore ideas and validate possibilities.
  • Decide – companies are notoriously bad at: pinpointing opportunities, not focusing on the best, most ambitious ones and not making them bigger by capturing larger footprints & value.

  • Commit – without innovation++ champions, a future mindset, organizational incentives and internal promotion & resilience, innovation++ gets stuck when it meets head on with company culture, leadership and the forces of commercialization.

FUTUREPROOFING DEFINED : FRONT, MIDDLE AND BACK-END INNOVATION EXCELLENCE

Futureproofing

Navigate the future complexities, key growth drivers and important implications to your business.

We help you see the future clearer

INNOVATION+

Discover paths & tools fit for your  aspiration, situation & size. Let’s get past the messy middle.

We help you focus where you want to be

THE FUTURE

Overcome firefighting, learn how to marry corporate innovation+ to business strategies & growth.

We help you COMMIT & Get winning ideas over the finiSh line

Our Next Big Webcast/Podcast - "Season #3, Episode #12 - 24 DAYS OF FUTUREPROOFING"

24 global experts weigh in on their observations about change, innovation, transformation and the futures as our end-of-the-year wrap on the year that was 2021 and cast ahead to the next three years.

Feature FUTUREPROOFING Offering - "The Emerging 30 Tech" Keynote

Nobody attempts to categeorize and rank the emerging technologies that will impact us over the next deacde like we do. Distilled from five different sources of input, F:N categorizes and ranks the top 30 technologies, and within each, provides the industries most affected and the key applications that have come to the fore. We’ll also provide implications on business and time to mass market adoption. Don’t miss booking this one, in time for our 2020 new rankings.

Current Foresight Venture - The Future of Work 2020++

Our global study of the Future of Work and how 10 areas of the “people side” of change & innovation agendas will shift over the next decade. Join our international group of curious and committed professionals who are producing actionable insights and recommendations that help organizations and employees worldwide adapt and thrive in an environment of constant change.

Our Recent Post - "The Pandemic and Whats Come after COVID-19"

We went deep on this one because the topic is just too important and all-encompassing.  This “black swan” moment may define our generation.  So we provided four things to know as a business professional and 50+ implications, both short and long-term. Just always remember “something good from  all things come” and we hope you’ll be there to capture it.

Scan Through Season #3, Episode #2 of our "16 Corporate Innovation Archetypes"

We’ve minted the Myers-Briggs for corporate innovation personality types. Join us as the Futureprofing principals and panelists explore why companies perform change the way they do.

Our Best Offer - "Subscribe to our FN Vault newsletter and get a free copy of our Business Stage Act"

Two-to-three times per month, we curate the best and most relevant headlines, intelligence, updates  and practices from our future worlds of:  change, innovation, business models, technlogy, the customer, talent and strategy. We call it “The Vault” and we leave no stone unturned.. Plus, as a token of our appreciation, receive our free report on what business people demand from their thought leaders and keynoite speakers, you may be surprised.

BIGGER CAN BE BEAUTIFUL ...

Given the headlines you read everyday, you might think startups are the only ones that can innovate effectively, We don’t happen to agree.

We think it’s high time for blue chip organizations and scaling companies to go on the offensive and find, filter and fast track their best ventures.

Unlike many creative boutiques, it’s not just hope and ideas that will reverse the tide, but decison-based rigor, focus, process, mindset and implementation.

So … we’re sending the “bat signal” to all change agents, a “clarion call” to all intrapreneurs. Let’s think big and act small, and climb aboard to the next station of innovation++.

Futureproofing 66° Champions

FUTUREPROOFING 66° — A GLOBAL NETWORK OF COLLABORATORS

Futureproofing Awards

FUTUREPROOFING AWARDS RECOGNIZING THE BEST AT TACKLING THE FUTURE

FN Foresight Intelligence

FUTUREPROOFING FORESIGHT VENTURES — BRINGING THE FUTURE FORWARD INTELLIGENTLY

Futureproofing Salons

FUTUREPROOFING SALONS  CO-CRAFT, & CO-DISCOVER BOLDER FUTURES

GLOBAL CHANGE INTELLIGENCE meets corporate innovation smarts meets foresights from the FUTURE edge.

We wondered what would happen if we married the agility and lean approach of startups, with the proven scale and unfair advantages of corporate innovation, and binded it to global future foresight network operating slightly ahead of our time. Our hatchling: Futureproofing. 

x Value vs. Big Box Consultancies/ Innovation Boutiques

Supporting Global Marketplace Studies

Clients our approach has been bulletproofed by

Innovation++ Benefits / Deliverables We Provide Clients

Let's Do Innovation Better

Nearly everybody wants a healthy stream of innovation, not many know how to get it. In a recent survey,

“Innovation” was ranked 18th out of 23 core activities that a company performs.

We simply need to do better.  Futureproofing co-founder Andrea Kates explains how we plan to do it.

Get the Future in Your Inbox

We’re giving change agents, innovators, curiosity seekers and business decision makers the foresights, tools and news to help their organizations grow and adapt to change.

Join thousands of global leaders and receive our latest “Vault” of foresight, intelligence, headlines and solutions.

RECENT NEWs, POSTS & EVENTS

The Futureproofing foundry is always shaping things, building stuff, asking difficult questions, revealing uncomfortable truths and getting the world’s most innovative minds and change performers to collide .

Our Team of Change Agents

Founder Sean Moffitt and associates have brought together decades of corporate strategy, innovation, technology practitioner & thoughtleader experience into a venture that also brings together the best in corporate, scale-up, social and public sector  innovation.

SEAN MOFFITT

SEAN MOFFITT

Co-Founder

The FUTUREPROOFING 66 CHAMPIONS - OUR Global futureproofing network

The FUTUREPROOFING 66 CHAMPIONS - OUR Global futureproofing network

Built by Practitioners, For Practitioners

Our 30 Innovation Areas, 13,000 Teams Better Off

“The Futureproofing process equips teams to understand important components that drive corporate innovation including discovering unspoken customer truths, insights about an imagined future, and how to bring together trends and technologies and apply them to solving business problems. The result is like a crystal ball for future customer desires and behaviors with immediate action steps for product and service strategy.  The team is knowledgeable and savvy.  They do such a great job of sharing their deep experience in way that empowers their clients to immediately repeat the process themselves and get results.”

Jamie Foucher, Innovation, Ford

“Futureproofing : Next was instrumental in helping our leadership team develop a vision for Finance at Stitch Fix. Finance as a discipline is undergoing dramatic changes, and they helped us develop a roadmap that embraces and pioneers this future. Through deft facilitation, they were empathetic listeners yet also persisted in getting us to the truth. In the end the answer was always there; they helped us find it and make it our own.”

Paul Yee, CFO

Trusted by 300+ Organizations Worldwide

The smartest, brightest and most ambitious groups work with us, and like it. Think of us as your innovation++ consiglieres and future sentries.

You’ll never utter again “that would never work for my team”, “our industry is too slow-moving”, “our leadership is too obstinate” or “our organziation resists change too much”.

OVERVIEW OF

FUTURE PROOFING  SOLUTIONS

Whether you  are just getting started, changing things up or taking it to the next level, we have something to get you there, and keep you going.

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We’re hungry to do work with passionate, driven people. The future is unwritten, let’s bring some chapters of it to life.

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