Hello all! After much refinement (and excellent input from colleagues), we have distilled KedgeForward’s passions and protocol’s to their essence to show you – friends, colleagues, and potential clients. We look forward to partnering with you for competitive advantage, building creative processes, increasing product and service innovation, and mapping transformative pathways for your organization or social venture. What follows is Part 1 of 2:
Hi Everyone! Just a brief post to clear up any misconception about the launch of our new foresight consulting firm, KedgeForward. I realize that this site doesn’t do justice to our firm’s services, value-proposition, and approach for our potential clients. And, there’s a reason for that – it’s our company blog! You see, the KedgeForward website is forthcoming – as soon as possible – but we wanted to continue talking and sharing about our latest thoughts, ideas, and happenings while waiting for the official KF launch. Continue to enjoy until then. 
KedgeForward has constructed an overview of our processes, services, and offerings – and we want to hear what you think! We have the most brilliant practitioners in the blogosphere as our community, and your feedback is vital to us. If you would, please check out our series of posts over the next week that detail the KedgeForward “menu,” and let us know – through a comment on the blog or by email – if they answer these two questions:
1.) Is what we’re saying clear?
2.) Would this service interest you?
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond – it will help us to be as transformational as possible!
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KedgeForward
Establishing Aspirational Goals and Transformational Development through Strategic Foresight
KedgeForward is a full-service Strategic Foresight consultancy that builds robust and transformative organizational capacity through a process of integral* education, environmental and causal analysis**, and interactive scenario development, giving you unprecedented insight, adaptation, and strategic planning abilities for the next decade – and beyond.
Strategy for Your Next Decade… and Beyond
“How does our organization thrive in the landscape of the 21st century?”
“How might leadership and organizational teams catalyze vision into opportunity and generative growth?”
“How can our organization ‘plan’ for an uncertain future, and invite shareholders and stakeholders to join in this work?”
These are just a few of the questions we hear from leaders in business, nonprofit organizations, and grassroots movements across the globe. The only constant, we’re all discovering, is change. So now what?
At KedgeForward, we work with organizations to help them move beyond simple future-readiness into future-optimization. We can help you navigate tomorrow’s change, replacing a sense of dread and helplessness with a growing awareness of adventure and confidence in what the future holds for your organization – and what you hold for the future. We can strengthen your futures thinking and foresight planning processes, building a creative, innovative, adaptive, flexible, robust, and strategic environment that is ready for the short-term, and equipped for the long-term!
Our Approach to Strategic Foresight is integral and holistic, taking into account the entire system of your field and its surroundings, including leadership, strategy, shareholders, stakeholders, and the drivers that are influencing your thought and action – both internal and external.
Our Process is educational, analytic, interactive/collaborative, and catalytic.
Our Toolkit includes Appreciative Inquiry, Spiral Dynamics Mapping, Integral Analysis, Causal Layered Analysis, Future Search Workshops, SWOT Analysis, Shareholder and Stakeholder Analysis, Horizon Scanning, Implications Wheel Mapping, Organizational Culture Assessment, Transformational Breakpoint Mapping (Metamatrix), Interactive Scenario Development, and Collaborative Engagement for Strategy Creation.
*Spiral Dynamics, Integral Theory/Modeling/Leadership, Theory U, Action Inquiry
**The relationship and impact between your organization/field and the dynamics of the wider world
Just a quick update to let everyone know that we are alive and well, and hard at work to improve the offerings and services of KedgeForward. We will be adding new blog posts soon: The next enstallment of the “Holoptic Foresight Dynamics” series, the first installment to our work on “Emerging Cityscapes,” and more on our ongoing project entitled “A New Story for a New World.”
Plus, we want to thank everyone that participated in the SXSW public voting, giving a nod to our panel proposal, “Emerging Cityscapes.” Thank you one and all!
In the meantime, I’ve noticed that a very popular blog post from last year called “The Future of Halloween” is beginning to get a fair amount of readership again… it must be that time of year!
