Rohrbeck Heger GmbH

How do we plan ahead amid so many uncertainties? We demonstrated this in our most recent foresight event using the context of sustainability and...

For over 70 years, Corporate Foresight has been helping organizations to lay their foundation for future competitive advantage. Read this brief recap...

Many companies have yet to fully understand the impact climate change will have on their business. Here is something to get started with the topic.

You have heard that you need to be ready to change, refine and innovate your business model. But how should you go about it?

While the US still has a lead on venture capital investment, China is perceived to be leading on the amount and breadth of data. One crucial factor in...

Food for thought in the areas of foresight, business & tech, health & people, energy & environment, logistics & mobility, AI & computing

4 drivers of change herald a radical transition in air transportation: business travel, regionalization of routes, “star” networks, and flight shaming

René Rohrbeck's keynote on October 13th, 2020: Building the right capabilities to drive opportunities in crisis

What are the key learnings of this year's summit? Enjoy my recap and insights of this year's hybrid edition.

Ahead of our AI-Enabled Tech Foresight Summit, we share some food for thought: Is everything AI reliable? Is AI ethical?

Foresight addresses the (fuzzy) front end of innovation, i.e. it focusses on opportunity detection instead of problem-solution-market fit.

Visionary innovators are developing contact lenses to reduce color blindness, 3D artificial eyes and eye scanners to assess biological age.

Our team prepared some facts and opportunities in regard to industrial robots.

The team at Rohrbeck Heger looked at the Osborne effect, Jevons paradox and Marchetti's constant and shows which specific predictions can be derived.

The team at Rohrbeck Heger came up with a few ideas to make public transport safer.

In today’s fast paced environment, it becomes harder and harder to foresee future developments and the potential for long term success of new products...

It's fascinating to follow Big Tech's strategic playbook, and observe the impact these firms can have in shaping the future.

Nicholas Naseem Taleb of 'black swan' fame made some astute observations in his interview with "The New Yorker". We've summarised the main points.

UPDATE: P. Wack from Shell realized that scenarios are key to defining future strategies in times of change by influencing decision-making behavior

We run online workshops using some tools built specifically for running remote workshops. Here’s some of our advice for running a workshop online.

For many people, the work modality has transitioned into the digital realm. With our briefing we want to help remote teams to continue to stay...

Do-It-Yourself guide on how to turn uncertainty into opportunity for your organisation. Let us all leverage on ScenarioThinking to reimagine and...

Three lessons I learned about running a small business in Covid-19 times. When scenario-thinking met entrepreneurial spirit in a small restaurant in...

When it comes to innovation methodologies there is a lot of buzz - and still quite a bit of confusion - around Design Thinking, Scrum, Agile, Lean...

Our new “Foresight-Driven Innovation” masterclass is designed to provide professionals a deep dive into the methods and tools that can be used to...

In welchen Umgebungen und Szenarien werden Inhalte in Zukunft gebraucht und über welche Medien und Technologien werden sie transportiert? Wo werden...

Zukunftschancen und -risiken erfolgreich erkennen und managen: Corporate Foresight ist eine vergleichbar junge Management-Disziplin, die...

In April 2019 the CEO Summit was held in Washington DC, where “Leadership for the 21st Century & Beyond” brought together some of the world´s top...

On April 10 till 12, a group of Competitive Intelligence professionals gathered at The IntelliSummit 2019 in Stockholm to exchange best practices. Our...

Dr. Frank Ruff, Senior Manager of PIONEERING NeXt, Daimler AG raised the quintessential question of What’s next when it comes to leveraging foresight,...

Prof. Dr. Magnus Boman from Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm gave an unbiased speech on Precision Medicine - An application case for AI-based...

John Miranda, Market Insights Manager at Intel Corporation focused on the aspect of ethics and trust in AI as companies are adapting to change, “As AI...

Dr. Tim Pohlmann, CEO and Founder, IPlytics GmbH, a young startup founded in Berlin in 2012 gave a talk about AI Algorithms to Predict the Value of...

Can AI help to predict the Future? At our summit in Feb 2019 we discussed this topic with participants from Adidas, Bosch, SAP and more. Read about...

In each company you can find many different points of view about the future and various opinions about the firm's long-term success. The challenge...

The best-practice activities necessary for benefiting from foresight could be summarized into three sub-processes: Perceiving, prospecting and...

In our quarterly newsletter we share insights on Strategic Foresight and the future-orientation of organizations. Our newsletter is built around a set...

A superior new technology emerges on the horizon, threatening your existing business. Do you simply follow conventional wisdom and strive to make a...

Wie können Zukunftschancen trotz hoher Komplexität, Dynamik und Unsicherheit im Organisationsumfeld erkannt werden? Lerne Corporate Foresight Prozesse...

One of the best determinants for a firm’s long-term profitability and stock price development is its ability to create customer value. It has also...

Industry 4.0 – while still not yet clearly defined – can be considered to be one of the biggest architectural innovations in the industrial...

Die Mobilität von morgen gestalten: Management in Zeiten sozio-technischer Transitionen (Article in German)

Executives and strategists are paying increasing attention to the concept of VUCA, which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and...

Many companies look towards platforms in the hope that they can give advantage over competitor and enable future business expansions. Given this...

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Second part of our three part series on the fundamentals of digitalization focussing on the various forms of...

This post is an attempt to give perspective on the much hyped digitalization and break through the buzz by studying the fundamentals.

In this blogpost, we introduce three ways to scenario building and explain why scenarios are important.

In this blogpost, Rohrbeck Heger illustrates its approach to scenario-based strategizing.

This blogpost introduces another approach to assess the gap between the current state and the desired future state.

In this blogpost we share our thoughts on how to build up a successful corporate SME incubation program

In this blogpost we introduce our tool benchmarking approach.

In this blogpost, we share our thoughts on how our work, life and society could develop within the next years.

In our first blogpost, we highlight what Strategic Foresight means and what our mission is.