Strategic foresight
Alcimed helps its clients to imagine the possible futures of their sectors, at different time horizons (3, 5, 10, 20 year, or more, forecasts). A strategic foresight exercise does not consist in forecasting the future with accuracy, but allows for anticipation and preparation for possible futures, their opportunities as well as their threats.
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How we help you to achieve a strategic foresight exercise
In a strategic foresight approach, we rely both on the analysis of existing data on major trends in the environment and on weaker signals such as the arrival of a new entrant, the adoption of a new technology in a related sector or a change in usage.
Our teams work on:
- The laboratory, the factory, the hospital, the aircraft, the cockpit… of the future
- The customer experience (patient, consumer, passenger,…)
- Structural changes in a sector, an ecosystem and the associated new business models
- Up to the new skills or new professions to be developed to be better equipped for these possible futures.
EXAMPLES OF RECENT STRATEGIC FORESIGHT PROJECTS CARRIED OUT FOR OUR CLIENTS
We have supported a leading medical device player in the supply of consumables for hospitals in the identification of new growth opportunities in the hospital of the future. Through the identification and characterization of trends impacting the healthcare sector as well as the description of prospective situations in the hospital, Alcimed enabled its client to identify and select new services to be developed now for the hospitals of tomorrow, thus promoting a pioneering role for our client in proposing the services of the future!
One of our clients, a leader in the energy sector, wanted to prepare for the future and diversify its investments by developing scenarios for the city of the future beyond 2050 through a strategic foresight research. Through the organization of internal brainstorming and ideation sessions, the realization of an external creativity workshop, the elaboration of scenarios and the organization of an illustration contest on crowdsourcing designer platforms, Alcimed was able to nourish its client's strategic thinking on the future of energy in cities and to promote the projection of all internal teams on this subject.
Our team supported a client in the healthcare sector in the preparation and facilitation of a strategic foresight exercise of competitive evolution by teams around the world. Our client was in a particularly competitive market environment and wished to project with its teams the evolution of its competitors in order to work now on action plans of differentiation and gain or maintain market share. To do so, our team first analyzed the portfolios of the major competitors and their dynamics, then analyzed the other players in the ecosystem, who could either develop specific solutions or technological bricks, or hold strong positions on a niche sub-segment of the market. We then analyzed potential new entrants, based on market trends. Based on all this, our team co-defined prospective scenarios with our client, in preparation for the facilitation of a global workshop in a "win-game" format, enabling the teams to be involved in identifying the strongest threats and defining actions to be implemented now to prepare for them proactively.
We supported a leading pharmaceutical company in a prospective analysis of the role of the medical sales representative of the future. Our client, the company's sales director, was faced with a context of changing customer engagement practices and wanted to draw up a vision of what the pharmaceutical sales representative's job of the future might be.
We helped him to define a vision for 2030 and to build a roadmap with the different projects to be implemented to make his teams evolve towards this new role. We first led several working sessions with all the stakeholders involved in the different projects to identify the objectives, key steps, levers, resources, means, timing, indicators, expected deliverables and the functions involved for each project. Then, we formalized this roadmap to facilitate its diffusion internally and to communicate on the next steps.
We helped him to define a vision for 2030 and to build a roadmap with the different projects to be implemented to make his teams evolve towards this new role. We first led several working sessions with all the stakeholders involved in the different projects to identify the objectives, key steps, levers, resources, means, timing, indicators, expected deliverables and the functions involved for each project. Then, we formalized this roadmap to facilitate its diffusion internally and to communicate on the next steps.
Founded in 1993, Alcimed is an innovation and new business consulting firm, specializing in innovation driven sectors: life sciences (healthcare, biotech, agrifood), energy, environment, mobility, chemicals, materials, cosmetics, aeronautics, space and defence.
Our purpose? Helping both private and public decision-makers explore and develop their uncharted territories: new technologies, new offers, new geographies, possible futures, and new ways to innovate.
Located across eight offices around the world (France, Europe, Singapore and the United States), our team is made up of 220 highly-qualified, multicultural and passionate explorers, with a blended science/technology and business culture.
Our dream? To build a team of 1,000 explorers, to design tomorrow's world hand in hand with our clients.
Our purpose? Helping both private and public decision-makers explore and develop their uncharted territories: new technologies, new offers, new geographies, possible futures, and new ways to innovate.
Located across eight offices around the world (France, Europe, Singapore and the United States), our team is made up of 220 highly-qualified, multicultural and passionate explorers, with a blended science/technology and business culture.
Our dream? To build a team of 1,000 explorers, to design tomorrow's world hand in hand with our clients.
Our explorations
- Proof of concept
- Voice of Customer (VOC)
- Benchmark
Identify and analyze the practices of other players with a benchmark
- Business case
Validate your project launch with a business case
- Climate resilience and adaptation to climate change
Improve your resilience in the face of climate change
- Customer experience
Improve your customer satisfaction by working on your customer experience
- Decarbonization
Combine energy performance and industrial performance
- Diversification strategy
Expand your business with a diversification strategy
- Market Access
Develop a strong and distinctive market access strategy
- Market Study
Analyze and understand how a market really works thanks to market study
- New services
Enrich your offer by developing new innovative services
- Opportunity evaluation
Measure the attractiveness of a business by conducting an opportunity assessment
- Patient pathway
Innovate and reinvent patient care pathways
- Product innovation
Imagine the innovative products of tomorrow by boosting your product innovation
- Product launch
Succeed in your product launch with a robust sales and marketing strategy
- Relocation
Optimize your supply and production sources and accelerate your ecological transition by relocating your activities
- Roadmap
Structure your project launch with a roadmap
- Strategic audit
Make a strategic audit of your business
- Strategic positioning
Stand out from the competition with the right positioning strategy
- Activation
- Business development
- Business models
- Business plan
- Cluster study
- Collaborative projects
- Commercial strategy
- Competitive analysis
- Dossier creation
- Due diligence
- Go to market
- Innovation consulting
- Innovation process
- Innovation strategy
- Learning expedition
- New offers
- Open innovation
- Regulatory framework analysis
- Scouting
- Search for funding opportunities
- Search for partners
- State of the art
- Strategic foresight
- Test and Learn
- Valorization
- Value proposition
- Workshops