From Foresight to Action
Your Strategic Decision-Making Playbook for an Uncertain World
1. Auflage August 2026
256 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Turn foresight into action with practical tools for strategic decision-making in uncertainty
In a world where the future arrives faster than planning cycles, leaders face a critical 'Decision Gap' between knowing what might happen and making confident choices today. From Foresight to Action by Joana Lenkova solves this problem by transforming futures intelligence into concrete strategic action.
From Foresight to Action provides five Strategic Future Labs that function as flight simulators for decision-making under uncertainty. Each Lab addresses critical strategic questions through plausible scenarios, dilemmas, and practical tools. Readers will build a complete Futures Strategy Canvas and learn to embed futures thinking into organisational processes.
In the book, you'll find:
* Five standalone Strategic Future Labs with practical tools including Future Personas, Product Horizon Mapping, Futures Wheels, Wind Tunnelling, and Futures Capability Matrix
* A complete outside-in strategy model connecting future customers to products, opportunities, strategies, and organisational capabilities
* Actionable checklists and 'Next moves' guidance applicable immediately to your own strategic challenges
* Frameworks for understanding decision patterns, cognitive biases, and risk posture in strategic choices
* Practical methods for embedding foresight into culture, leadership, governance, and planning processes to build continuous strategic adaptation
Ideal for executives, managers, strategists, leaders, and decision-makers across organisations, From Foresight to Action transforms the way you approach strategy by treating the future as something you shape, not something that happens to you, providing the practical tools to make better decisions in an uncertain world.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Getting Future Ready
Chapter 1: The Business-Critical Case for Foresight
Chapter 2: Past, Present and Future of Strategy
Chapter 3: Decision-Making in Times of Uncertainty
Part II: Your Strategic Futures Labs
Chapter 4: Strategic Futures Lab 1: Who Is My Customer of the Future?
Chapter 5: Strategic Futures Lab 2: Will My Product Still Be Relevant?
Chapter 6: Strategic Futures Lab 3: What Future Risks and Opportunities Require Decisions Now?
Chapter 7: Strategic Futures Lab 4: Where Are the Best Opportunities for Innovation?
Chapter 8: Strategic Futures Lab 5: Will My Strategy Still Work in the Future
Part III: From Choices to Capability
Chapter 10: What Your Choices Reveal
Chapter 11: Building Futures Intelligence in Teams
Chapter 12: Systems Learning and Organisational Maturity
Conclusion: Designing Your Intentional Future
Notes
About the Author Index