Strategic foresight is a critical competence for companies looking for renewal through sustainability driven growth and understanding the changes ahead. Strategic foresight is an approach for companies to strategically adapt to the changes ahead, and to proactively shape their environment.
VTT’s Strategic Foresight for Sustainable Innovation and Growth Project (STRA4) promotes foresight capabilities and future-readiness of Finnish companies. Special focus in the project is in developing and making use of new tools, practices, and methods of strategic foresight in collaboration with companies.
To understand emergence, anticipation, and possible futures in customer needs or consumer behaviour, it is essential to combine customer research and strategic foresight tools. In the STRA4 project, we have carried out company specific case studies, in which we have utilized different methods to receive information on future customers, their behaviour and needs for the future, in different contexts. In this STRA4 seminar, we’ll present our approach and results from three case studies
Seminar language is English and it is organized in a hybrid form.
Seminar agenda
9:00 Morning coffee
9:30-9:45 STRA4 Future customer approach – Anu Seisto, Pauli Komonen and Maarit Halttunen, VTT
9:45-10:15 Case Kone: Co-designing the future with lead user consumers – Jaana Hyvärinen, Kone
10:15-10:45 Case SIX: Involving sales persons and customers in visioning the future – Mobile work machines, Harri Nieminen, VTT
10:45-11:15 Case Metsä Wood: Profiling lead user customers – Jussi Björman, Metsä Wood
11:15-11:30 Final discussion
Welcome!
