Strategic Foresight

Don’t obsess about the current state. Envision multiple scenarios for what happens next and how you can thrive no matter what. Jump analyzes underlying shifts to envision what might happen in five or ten years. We then map that back to investments you need to make right now.

Competitive Wargaming

Get in front of what your competitors might do. Play out multiple scenarios to pressure test your strategy, or define it.

Put pressure on your business by defining the right set of competitors, both traditional and non-traditional
Understand how different competitors might realistically react given certain situations
Define a strategic direction that other people can’t copy or will be set up to win regardless of your competitors

Future Scenario Planning

The best way to prepare for the future is to envision multiple types of futures and how your strategy or ideas play out in each. Then, identify investments to make now that will allow you to win regardless of what future may come to pass.

Identify the most critical macro forces that might disrupt your market
Envision multiple scenarios for what the future might look like in 5-7 years for your company and your industry
Align leaders on the different futures to get out of present focused thinking
Generate and pressure test potential ideas against future scenarios
Identify key investments you can make now that will make you successful no matter what future may come to pass
Takeaway leading indicators to notice how the world is shifting before others do

Trend Identification

When it comes to trends, we’re either missing them or just looking too close in. You need to look beyond your industry to identify the trends that matter and reduce the noise by really understanding the ones that matter to you. Then, come up with ways to ride the wave of those trends.

Challenge your assumptions and learn something new with experts
Understand leading indicators from inside and outside of the industry
Prioritize trends that have the most potential to impact your business
Align leaders on the trends that matter
Generate a plan for how to respond to trends and leverage them

Market Foresight

Don’t just look at where the TAM is today. Look at what’s growing to spot opportunities for growth that others may be missing.

Explore addressable markets from different angles
Size the market not just by where it is today, but where it is going
Prioritize the right market to go after

Innovation is fueled by seeing the world with new eyes. On numerous occasions, Jump has helped us break through to those most critical insights.”

Beth Comstock Vice Chair
General Electric

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