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Horizon Scanning

Thinking out of the box

Horizon scanning helps clients address future challenges, whether that's by identifying innovations likely to have a major impact on your business, or by helping your organisation develop suitable strategies for responding to a changing environment.

"OUC can help organisations to anticipate future technology trends as well as challenges and competitive threats..."

Oxford University Consulting (OUC) can help organisations to anticipate future technology trends as well as challenges and competitive threats in their marketplace by accessing experts from within the University who are at the cutting edge of their fields.  Working with OUC, organisations can access experts to help formulate long-term technology and product road maps thereby allowing you to determine future investment requirements and realise new revenue streams.

Experts can be drawn from multi-disciplinary centres such as The Smith School, The Said Business School, the 21st Century School, the Oxford Internet Institute, the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and many others, to give your organisation the information and knowledge it needs to adapt to future challenges.

Case Study - UN Human Development Report 2009
Case Study - Sowing the Seeds of Future Success, Kew Gardens