Frequently asks Questions (FAQs)

Foresight helps organisations prepare and make better strategic choices under uncertainty. It explores multiple plausible futures, identifies emerging opportunities and risks, and supports decision-ready action.
Foresight is not prediction, forecasting a single outcome, or a promise of certainty.

Our programmes are designed for:

• leadership teams and senior decision-makers
• strategy and policy units
• innovation and transformation teams
• research organisations and universities
• agencies and international programmes

Yes. We deliver online, in-person and blended formats, depending on your objectives, participants and location.

Depending on the programme or engagement, outputs may include:

• templates, toolkits and method guidance
• facilitation outputs (e.g., prioritised themes, options, decision frames)
• horizon scanning and sensemaking summaries (where relevant)
• scenarios, options and an action roadmap or implementation plan (where relevant)

Yes. We tailor programmes to your sector, decision cycle, time horizon, organisational maturity and the level of capability you want to build—ranging from foundations to advanced application.

Yes. Dr Rafael Popper is open to selected academic affiliations that align with his expertise in strategic foresight, sustainable innovation, policy and ecosystem resilience.

He typically joins on a 0.2 FTE appointment (with a maximum total load of 0.5 FTE across roles). Depending on the institution’s needs, appointments may include Full Professor, Associate Professor, Visiting Professor, or Professor of Practice.

Dr Popper can support universities with:

• designing and delivering new courses and curricula (executive education, MSc, PhD and undergraduate)
• leading or co-leading programmes (including Erasmus+ initiatives)
• supervising MSc and PhD students
• building partnerships and strengthening international research and innovation collaboration

If you are not sure what fits, tell us your decision need, time horizon, context and participants. We will recommend the best option—whether that is a ready-made programme, a tailored cohort, an advisory engagement, facilitation support, or a longer-term partnership to embed foresight capability.