AdWise

Strategic Futuring — Narrative and creative consultancy.

Shift mental maps, shape the landscape. We offer transformative journeys to design the Future, on purpose. Other people may call it business consulting. We call it Strategic Futuring: transformative visions and strategies to shape the Future with imagination.

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WHY THIS MATTERS

We are living less an era of changes than a change of era.

Business as usual is dead.

And yet, despite the talking, most organisations stay busy rearranging the furniture in the same room. In this context, organisations can no longer meet tomorrow's challenges with yesterday's ways of thinking.

The key lies in the way we look at the world.

A company may have a more conscious leader and still keep sailing toward the same ports if the map from which it navigates does not change.

So the quieter questions are not « Do we need to change? » but:

  • What if we are looking at the new world with old lenses?
  • What if our « solutions » are part of the problem — reinforcing the context that produces it?
  • What does Business as the world needs actually require — today?
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what it is

Not another strategic process
based on linear thinking.

It is Shapership in practice: a conscious leap — the Fosbury Flop of the Mind — an intentional paradigm shift from Business as usual to Business as the world needs.

What it offers

Strategic Futuring is the alternative to traditional strategic processes based on analysis and linear thinking. It helps teams reinvent their business, their strategies, and also the way they build them in an unstable world.

We design and facilitate journeys into the unknown Future, supported by a unique fusion of Strategy, Foresight, Imagination and Serious Creativity.

Based on our extensive know-how, we use simple and intuitive forecasting processes associated with creative methods to generate Shifts in Minds for Shifts in Action.

This work operates at the root level of mental maps. In practice, it helps people:

  • question routine thinking and break free from old boxes
  • open strategic imagination and articulate transformative possibilities
  • shift from optimisation of the existing to meaningful strategic reorientation
  • render the transition visible and actionable through concrete options and initiatives
Futuring is the next strategy. It changes how and what we think so that radically different futures can become visible, desirable and actionable.
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WHAT IT HELPS YOU DO

AdWise helps leaders and teams
shape viable and desirable futures in a new paradigm.

Four essential movements
What these shifts in perception allow leaders and teams to do:
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See

and decode the world with new lenses, beyond the familiar routine thinking highways.

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Sense

new innovation opportunities and emerging needs.

03

Seize

them creatively, develop a transformative Vision and rethink the paradigm in which they innovate.

04

Shape

reality in new ways and move from Vision to Action.

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DELIVERABLES

Built on more than 30 years of practice across close to 100 companies and organisations to.

AdWise helps create intentional shifts of perspective and paradigm — so that what once seemed impossible becomes actionable.

Strategy as a meaning-making story
A series of new and shared mental maps to see, sense, make sense, seize and shape the landscape
Better strategic choices to actively shape your Future(s)
A transformative Vision for the Future
New strategic options and radically different approaches to value creation
The capacity to switch from Renovation (Business as Usual) to Transformative Innovation (Business as UNusual)
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WAYS TO ENGAGE

Ways to engage.

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Customized AdWise partnerships

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One-day interventions

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Workshops

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Strategic journeys

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Customized formats on demand

Because it takes vision to be realistic.

And it demands new maps to create meaningand navigate new landscapes.

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other vehicles

One ecosystem,
five practical vehicles
.

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The Shapership Game
New points of view to shape the Future(s) — every day.
A poetic map-and-card experience — and a facilitated service.
3
Civic Imagination
NO MAD Times and Spaces.
Pop-up thinking spaces for world building.
4
The Shapership Academi
EDUCATION as the practice of FREEDOM.
Teaching to transgress. From skills to Agency.
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Narrative Therapy
Make preferred futures visible.
A respectful practice to re-author a relationship of freedom.