Futures studies meets human geography

Julia Wurm has been supporting the ScMI AG team with current client projects and internal research alongside her studies since summer 2021. Her master's degree in human geography with a focus on economic geography and mobility research opens up an exciting bridge to working with scenarios and future studies. In this article, she talks about her personal experiences from her studies and explains the mutual enrichment of working with ScMI.

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).

Strengthen your foresight competence...

In 2022, ScMI AG will again offer several open seminars/trainings on the topic of a Szenario-Management ^TM . Our classic face-to-face format will be complemented by a newly designed online workshop series. Find out now about the possible dates and register. We are looking forward to meeting you. The current dates, conditions and registrations options can be found here.

Strategic agility

Combining scenario management and business model thinking:
why strategic agility is the new way to define your corporate strategy

For the past decades, companies have been defining their strategy following a traditional approach: on the one hand they analyzed trends, selected the most relevant ones, and designed their strategy based on a “clear view of the future”. On the other hand, they created a one-dimensional strategy which – at best – provided a clear direction, but often gave the company's development little room to breathe. Therefore, strategy implementation often turned into strategy justification - the necessary questioning of changes in the environment or the exploration and testing of alternative options was not perceived as invigorating but as disturbing.

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.

After many years of very successful work, ScMI founding initiator Dr. Andreas Siebe will resign from the board of directors at his own request and turn to a new professional challenge. With the termination of his activity agreed by best mutual consent, Dr. Alexander Fink will take over the management of ScMI AG as sole member of the Managing Board. He will be supported by Jens-Peter Kuhle and Hanna Jürgensmeier, with whom he forms the new management team.

The 17th general meeting of the Scenario Management International AG confirmed the previous supervisory board in office. Dr. Ralf Becker remains chair of the board – personally liable managing partner of the Fritz Becker KG in Brakel.

Scenario study about the future of personnel development

Demography and skills shortage, globalization and location quality, digitalization and technological change. How will the personnel development will look like in the future with respect to the uncertainties? And how will it work together with other functions and external further training opportunities?

How are scenarios developed? How can strategies be robustly created? And which trends and scenarios influence our business? – There are many questions to be answered as soon as possible. The ScMI AG wants to provide answers by means of the new webinar series.

The demographic change, the altered self-perception of elders as well as the decreasing part of those, who solely want to be in the care of family members,  lead to a change in dealing with the age and an increasing demand for caregivers.