Foresight Process Design
I immersed myself in Idea Couture's Foresight team and delivered a refined process
Overview
Strategic Foresight is a discipline concerned with establishing well-informed future oriented perspectives that help to fuel, guide, and inspire innovation processes, strategic planning and critical decision-making. Idea Couture's (now Cognizant) Strategic Foresight unit was faced with ever-present time constraints and tight timelines to deliver reports. They needed a quick way to harvest, process and then store the signals and trends they uncovered for their clients.
Execution
It was my responsibility to immerse myself in Idea Couture's Strategic Foresight practice in order to devise a solution to their information management challenge. I learned the challenges, pain points and developed insight on the Strategic Foresight process through hands-on participation in product development and delivery, primarily to clients in the retail and CPG space. I actually did the work the Foresight team does on a daily basis to better understand how to help them.
Results
IC was delivered an almost no-cost solution to their information management challenges. Through the use of cloud-based tools, I built an integration between their data storage and collaboration applications that enhanced information retrieval and processing capabilities. This, in turn, led to a dramatic improvement in speed to deliverable creation.