Our Services

Our five pillars of service help to equip our state to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

We deliver world-class foresight by South Australians, for South Australians.

  • Foresight Guided Strategy & Policy

    Embedded processes that ensure South Australia’s strategy and policy is fit for the future

  • Training & Capability Development

    Equipping South Australia with the capabilities to navigate uncertainty and the agency to shape the future

  • Thought Leadership

    Foresight products and insights to support better conversations and better decisions today 

  • Community of Practice

    A rising tide of peer-to-peer learning and open collaboration

  • Public Events & Dialogues

    Ensuring everyone has a voice in shaping South Australia’s future

Why Our Services?

Together, these services ensure future-fit strategies, empower local talent, foster collaboration, spark vital insights and give everyone agency in shaping South Australia’s future – that’s why we are SA Futures Agency.

Foresight Guided Strategy & Policy

The world is changing rapidly. Status quo approaches to strategy and policy development are no longer fit for purpose.

Embedding foresight into strategy and policy development processes ensures that what we put in place today will prepare us to thrive in the coming years.

  • Horizon Scanning is a systematic practice that illuminates signals of change and trends relevant to a strategy’s success or failure—strengthening our capacity to navigate uncertainty and shape better futures.

  • We use a comprehensive, deductive scenario-development methodology with morphological analysis that integrates the critical uncertainties identified in the horizon scanning phase.

    Through a structured workshop with diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts, we create three or four scenarios that ‘pin down the edges of the board’ of future possibilities.

  • Visioning focuses on developing a shared aspirational vision for the region—one that articulates what “success” looks like amid future changes and uncertainties.

    Visioning serves as the foundation for deriving clear and actionable strategic objectives in subsequent phases of strategy development.

  • Several key strategic objectives will stem from the Visioning process.

    Strategic pathways are the ordered sets of actions/steps needed to achieve each Strategic Objective.

  • Following the previous stages, we synthesise these outputs to define the strategy’s pillars, cross-cutting themes and enablers: ultimately forming a cohesive, well-structured strategy. 

Training and Capability Development

Our in person courses are delivered at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide, South Australia.

All training and capability development involves learning by doing, either in a course environment or embedded in your practice.

  • 2 day in person, offered twice a year in May and September

  • We tailor a learning program and duration to your organization.

Thought Leadership

Coming Soon!

We offer foresight products and insights to support better conversations and better decisions today.

Our Trend Cards, Scenarios and Insights Briefs equip South Australians with powerful foresight tools to shape a more resilient future.

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Community of Practice

We have an annual learning calendar that includes educational webinars, peer-to-peer learning events and regular Foresight Drinks at MOD.

Public Events and Dialogues

Coming Soon!

Our calendar of Town Hall events and panel discussions.