Future scenarios for the world of 2045
Our Scenario Manager software system is now used on almost every continent. Our clients include companies, organizations and universities - from Vancouver to Hong Kong, and from the RAND Corporation to the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Nevertheless, it was something special for us when the United Nations also decided to use scenario management.
Scenarios in a new way: The POCO app
The process of developing the customer app for POCO Einrichtungsmärkte GmbH shows just how diverse the possible applications of Scenario ManagementTM are. In 2020, the furniture retailer from Bergkamen launched a project with the aim of expanding its retail media portfolio with the addition of an independent retailer app. On this basis, POCO and ScMI AG launched a joint consulting project.
The future of Bitcoin - joint project
Become a project partner to make the topic more tangible for you and your company and to make possible developments more predictable. Benefit from UTXO expert knowledge and an intensive exchange in the scenario team. Take advantage of the interdisciplinary discussions and networking events with other companies to develop a basis for your company's strategic planning. We look forward to meeting you. Information on the methodological approach, the project setting, conditions and registration options can be found here (GERMAN).
Today is the one year anniversary of the Corona virus being first reported in China. And quite frankly, one year ago I personally would not have expected my life as it is today. Otherwise I would have clearly not have booked a drop-dead expensive trip to Tanzania for the summer of 2020. There is some comfort in the fact to be not alone with this (although my friends love to tease me about the fact that I work for a strategic foresight company and still did not see Corona coming, duh).
What role will data play in the healthcare system of the future - and what influence will patients have on its actual usage? ScMI AG, together with the Swiss innovation initiative DayOne and BlauenSolutions, has analyzed data systems in the health sector in a project together with 30 experts from the health sector.
There is much talk of the "new normality". But what could it look like? ScMI has outlined eight possible futures in an open scenario process. None of these scenarios can be excluded today. Nevertheless, we are looking for orientation. Therefore we offer you to participate in our online scenario assessment.
What consequences does the crisis have for society, the economy and politics? Nationalization or cooperation? Solidarity or individualism? Old or new normality? 80 experts joined us in thinking ahead to possible post-corona scenarios. In an open online process. Use the results to make your strategy future-proof.
The final event of the scenario process on the future of city centres in South Westphalia was held at the end of June. The process was supported by the University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen, the Competence Center E-Commerce and the City Lab Südwestfalen. A participatory process with two large workshops was planned for spring 2020. Due to the corona pandemic, the procedure was modified at short notice, so that the scenarios were created in several online workshops. In this process, the various stakeholders from over 20 municipalities contributed their heterogeneous perspectives and points of view, thus contributing significantly to the breadth of the results.
Almost three-quarters of the future experts surveyed in a "Corona stress test" expect that a structural change towards sustainability and public welfare will succeed after the pandemic. However, this will only be possible if there are forward-looking control measures in politics, business and society. Otherwise, there is a danger of backward-looking isolation and exclusion, as feared by another quarter. But almost all experts agree on one thing: there will be no return to the old normality.
For the eighth time the future experts of the ScMI AG accompanied international students of the Technical University Ostwestfalen-Lippe with the development and interpretation of future scenarios.
As in previous years, ScMI was present at the International automobile exhibition in Frankfurt. Continental AG presented its vision of the mobility of the future to the expert audience on the basis of a "Future Perspective" developed with ScMI AG. Based on a comprehensive trend analysis, a computer-animated picture of mobility in the city of the future is drawn. This creates a spotlight for targeted product and future design in the company.
How will gas stations look like in the future? How will we be supplied with energy? Students of the University of Paderborn dealt with These questions in this year's future school.
Bolivia, Brasil, Canada, Columbia, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Iran, Mongolia, India und Niger: the home countries of this year's international students of the course "strategic management" from the University of Applied Science in Lemg are radiating diversity.
For the seventh time the future experts of the ScMI AG accompanied international students of the University of Applied Science Ostwestfalen-Lippe in the development and preparation of future scenarios.
In the course of their studies in Strategic Management, international students of Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences developed future scenarios in cooperation with ScMI. In this year’s project, the master students focused on determining potential futures for the production environment in the year 2030.
Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals. As part of its "Personal Care" business, the company supplies ingredients and concepts for effective skin, hair and personal hygiene products.
On December 7th about 300 representatives from business and science discussed the latest developments and results of the Spitzencluster it’s OWL.
armasuisse is the Competence Center for Procurement, Technology and Real Estate within the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS). As the center of technology the "Science and Technology" (S + T) department tests and assesses
A brief view across the media landscape underpins the impression that Germany is moving from one crisis to another without a common goal. What is missing to this drive by sight are pictures of possible and livable futures.
„Whether the trade logistic is able to remain competitive in the future, or whether new player barge between end customer and trade, is highly dependent on the position trade takes in the process of digitalization.“ This is the core result from the „EHI scenario study on trade logistics 2025“, which was conducted in cooperation between the EHI Retail Institute in Cologne, several logistics experts from trade and ScMI - their methodical partner company.
Digitalization is one of the those topics that is dominating today’s world. The influences of digitalization on how we work today and in the future are diverse, complex and uncertain at the same time. “Work 4.0 – How East Westphalia will work in the future” is the title to which ScMI together with regional actors of the working world develop future scenarios. 
How does the future of the service market for drive- and automation technology look like in fourteen years from now? There is no doubt, that this years’ Future School question was a challenging one. Over four months 28 economic bachelor degree students took the challenge and created future scenarios that were presented to the business unit manager of this years’ partner LENZE SE in late August.
The global mobility markets are undergoing a profound change which at the end also significantly influences the motorcycle market.
Handicraft in industrial and residential construction is characterized by numerous external influences and is constantly changing. The major drivers of alternative developments can be pointed out in six scenarios.
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of the airbus company which was the result of the consolidation of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military.
The sustainability action concerning foresight developed 17 future scenarios for the markets machinery and plant engineering, automotive engineering and energy industry in the context of the cluster-technology-network “intelligent technical systems OstWestfalenLippe (it’s OWL)”
The question on how the mobility might evolve in the future is nowadays not only extremely important for humans, but also for companies.
The traditional meaning of security policy contains activities, which serve for creation, maintenance and improvement of the external security.
How does the travelling behavior of the humans develop and which are the resulting influences on the tourism in Germany? Where do people travel to in 2025?
With more than 83000 inhabitants, the city Minden is a cultural center as well as an administration and economic center for the county Minden-Lübbecke.
The international competitive constraints on the European maritime economy are getting increasingly tougher over the last years.
