Global Futures & Foresight published a new report on 25th May: Coronanomics: Scenarios for the UK economy in 2020-21. This report will be followed by a furth...

Balancing investment and saving is a core issue during any recession yet the COVID crisis looks like, a) increasing investment in technologies that ultimatel...

Since workers globally stand to lose between $860 billion and $3.4 trillion of income in 2020 due to the crisis[i], retailers everywhere will need to revisit...

As Yogi Berra once said, ‘The future ain’t what it used to be.’ For many, the rough outline of what may reasonably have been expected to constitute the futur...

‘Black swan’ events are a metaphor for unforeseen, rare, economic and geopolitical shocks that have a major impact, and are then rationalised with hindsight....

Foresight seeks to redress the dangerous, short-term weighted imbalance evident in planning by providing a systemic framework for thinking about, imagining, ...

The heading above is the title of a fascinating new book[1] by Lord Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, and John Kay, Fellow of St. John’s C...

In August 2019, some 54 percent of executives predicted that digital would have a significant impact on their industry over the next five years[i]. We would ...

As a direct result of COVID-19, the ILO estimated on March 18th that up to 24.9 million jobs could be lost[i], with underemployment many magnitudes higher. I...

During the COVID-19 outbreak, China moved at pace to shift half of all medical care online[i]. This move is likely to catalyse trends already underway, addin...

The world’s population is set to grow by 2.2 billion between now and 2050[i], and given that this is in tandem with rising prosperity, we are forecast to nee...