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The chair launches regularly new projects which include its professors, partners and EDHEC Students.
Welcome to the "Future of..." projects where we focus on understanding and shaping the future with the aim of helping organizations and individuals prepare for what is to come. Through our research and advisory services, we aim to help our clients stay ahead of the curve and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
Our Projects - Shaping the Future
What we do
SELF-ASSESSING
Future preparedness with our Future FITness benchmarking model helps to improve and to align your capabilities with the environmental complexity, volatility, hostility and your own strategic ambition.
DEVELOPING
Your talent by attending one of our courses on strategic foresight, scenario-based planning, business wargaming, systematic trend management, and innovation and transformation in the digital era.
COMPARING
Your Future FITness with other leading organizations in our network. We share best practices on trend radars, AI-based scanning tools and new planning and strategizing approaches.
TRANSFORMING
We help you become a transformational leader in your organization and also run every year a collaborative project which integrates different organizations across an industry ecosystem to drive transformational change.
What you get
Our longitudinal studies show that vigilant companies, which have the appropriate level of Future FITness, clearly outperform with
Our 3Ps of corporate foresight practices
PERCEIVING - Reduce response time to shifts
PROSPECTING - Increase speed of decision making
PROBING - Reduce time to market
In the Press
Special Issue: Open Mind – de l’incertitude à l’opportunité
Courrier Cadres Special Issue (11/08/21)
L'incroyable optimisme d'Airbus pour le trafic aérien
Slate Korii (16/06/21)
Circularité, industrialisation et numérique : trois clés pour accélérer la rénovation énergétique
The Conversation (22/04/21)
Transport aérien: un trou d’air passager?
France Culture (24/03/21)
Help! Quand les étudiants viennent au secours des entreprises
Les Echos Start (06/01/21)
Des étudiants de l'EDHEC Business School de Nice ont aidé les entreprises fragilisées par la crise
Nice Matin (18/12/20)
Projet ESAC: L'EDHEC s'engage auprès des entreprises en difficulté
Business Cool (14/12/20)
Le transport aérien ne sera plus jamais le même…
The Conversation (02/12/20)
The Business Case For Futures Intelligence
Forbes (09/11/20)
How to be a future savvy leader
CEO World Magazine (21/10/20)
Developing Innovation Strategies Systematically
Detecon consulting (04/09/20)
Special Issue: De l’incertitude a l'opportunité
Courier Cadres (11/08/20)
Avoir un impact sociétal positif
Nice Matin (06/07/20)
Stratégie: De l'incertitude à l'opportunité
Courrier Cadres (01/06/20)
Opinion piece: Businesses do not make use of future information
Talouselämä (31/03/20)
Des futurologues prédisent comment le coronavirus va changer le monde
Sputniknews - France (30/03/20)
Preparados para el reinicio: bienvenidos al mundo poscoronavirus
Sputnik - mundo (30/03/20)
How organizations can use foresight tools and methods to drive organizational transformation, strategic innovation, and desirable futures
Institute for the Future (12/03/20)
Three steps to improve happiness and productivity
HR Magazine (14/01/20)
Interview: Future-Proofing the Threats of Competitive Disruption
Gartner - subscribers to leadership council (21/11/19)
The Importance of Foresight: Why Intuition And Imagination Will Be Critical In the Future of Work
Forbes - The Importance of Foresight (25/03/19)
Servitization as an opportunity for manufacturing companies
Børsen (27/02/18)
Wide strategic view will narrow chances of corporate mischief
Business Day (24/01/18)
Why Strategic Plans Need Multiple Futures
Digitalist Magazine (15/11/17)