Aurecon works with organisations and governments to map out their digital future. Helping them understand the actions they can take to navigate the digital landscape and achieve business value through digitisation.

Navigate uncertainty. Anticipate. Act.

The advance of digital technology and its integration into every part of our lives means we are now all more connected than ever before. This interconnectivity has created an increasingly complex and unpredictable environment for organisations.

Industry boundaries are blurring. Traditional definitions of organisations are changing. Questions are arising around time-honoured business theories. Many organisations still do not have mature and robust mechanisms for acting on the challenges presented by these changes. This creates significant risk for the future resilience of these organisations.

Digital Futures draws on Aurecon’s digital engineering and advisory expertise to help clients and partners to better navigate uncertainty, anticipate change and act effectively.

Building digital resilience using strategic foresight and futures research

We help our clients better pre-empt change and make more informed decisions through the application of strategic foresight and futures research methodologies.

We specialise in key areas that advances in digital technologies are reshaping, such as business and economics, the changing nature of work and the impacts of digital innovation. Our approach considers people, process, and technology simultaneously to understand the dynamics between them and support well-considered and better-informed decision making.

Our futures research sheds light on emerging Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 market opportunities, putting them into context and articulating how skills, capabilities, tools and business practices need to change, evolve and develop for our clients to capitalise on them.

We use a range of strategic foresight and research practices to tailor advisory services for clients.

• Horizon scanning – through identifying and monitoring trends, emerging issues and weak signals in the current external operating environment, we can understand potential future environments. The systematic process of horizon scanning uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative resources.
• Horizon mapping – understanding the long, medium and short-term impacts of change to generate innovations, make sense of trends and identify uncertainty.
• Trend analysis – analysing existing trends to understand the trajectories and patterns of change to identify causes, drivers and potential impacts.
• Systems mapping – exploring the interaction between trends to examine broader patterns and rate of change.
• Technology mapping – using a systematic approach to categorise and assess the evolution of technologies to diagnose risk, applications and readiness for implementation.
• Scenarios – helping organisations prepare for the future and reckon with uncertainty by developing a better understanding of the range of plausible future operating environments.
• Implications analysis – identifying and understanding the implications of future operating environments and developing strategies and tactics to respond.

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