Two initiatives were born as a result: the creation of “Club Open Prospective” to share reflections and collaborate with other businesses and organisations, and the design of Future 20XX, an applied game for considering the future and the challenges facing citizens and employees. This premise was the basis for Blue Orange, a cross-functional working group within Orange whose objective is to rethink the way in which foresight is used and to share its tools and methods within the company. And yet, it is within precisely this environment that, more than ever, we should be asking questions about what the future could be like and about the kind of future we want, in order to guide our activities in the short term.

Distant future? With climate change, the need to bring about the energy transition, increasing inequality and the ramp-up of political tensions, today’s world is changeable and unstable and the future could be viewed with fear. Very widespread within businesses at the end of the 20th century, it gradually lost its influence on strategic planning under the strain of short-term pressure, with businesses now experiencing increasing difficulties anticipating a future considered distant and uncertain. Instead, it seeks to shed light on the choices to be made in the present, the ones we are faced with today and whose impact will be visible in the medium or long term. It gets us thinking – what will tomorrow be like? The aim is not to predict the future. Could a game help us to reflect on the world of tomorrow and conceive a common future? This is the premise of Future 20XX, a forward-looking applied game that brings all the company’s players together in a fun and participatory approach.įoresight – an intellectual approach that aims to anticipate the changes to our society as accurately as possible.

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