Area of Concern

Future Readiness

We have entered a period of incredible short-term adaptation coupled with long-term instability. This instability is coming from all directions: the climate crisis, the ongoing struggle to manage the pandemic, organizational and geopolitical uncertainty, and increasingly urgent calls to address long-standing and systemic inequities. 

Facing these issues challenges us to radically rethink everything and thus transform the global landscape over the coming decade. The question we face today is simple: Will we address these issues ... or become their victims?

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032

Each year, IFTF produces Map of the Decade research to examine emerging challenges and opportunities that we need to understand to help them plan for long-term success. And now in 2024 we're excited to publicly release The Decisive Decade: The Reevaluation of Everything. This research includes an Executive Overview plus 8 accompanying topical deep-dives, previously published exclusively to IFTF Vantage Partners in 2022.

Each of the 8 deep-dive reports on emerging challenges ...

  • Examines a different urgent future, beginning with a brief introduction plus a crucial question the specific urgent future demands us to consider.
  • Follows with a historical and contextual discussion of the urgent future and a set of insights for future-ready organizations.
  • Identifies 2 critical uncertainties that will shape this urgent future. The limits of these uncertainties form the coordinates of a 2X2 matrix we used to develop 4 plausible scenarios for the urgent future.
  • Explains how we identified the 2 critical uncertainties and developed the 4 scenarios for each urgent future.

Download and enjoy the complete set of research below ...

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Executive Summary

This Executive Summary introduces our research framework and provides a brief overview of the 8 urgent futures explored in depth, designed together to help you prepare for the challenges ahead.

MOTD 22 Overview

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Civil Society

Can we reverse course and renegotiate the social contract so we can work together and thrive?

MOTD 22 Civic Society

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Wellbeing

Can we rehabilitate from collective trauma in ways that connect and protect rather than divide and endanger each other?

MOTD 22 Wellbeing

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Technology

Will emerging technology help us reconstitute shared reality, or will we use it to tear further apart?

MOTD 22 Fragmented Reality

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Equity

Can countries reap a demographic advantage from aging populations by creating and cultivating more equitable societies?

MOTD 22 Equitable

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Longevity

Can countries reap a demographic advantage from aging populations by creating and cultivating more equitable societies?

MOTD 22 Longevity

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Energy

Can we transform the ways we use and produce energy radically and quickly enough to avoid a climate breakdown?

MOTD 22 Energy

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Food

Can a food system designed for a stable climate innovate its way into resilience amidst a rapidly changing operating context?

MOTD 22 Food

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Place

Where will we draw the lines?

MOTD 22 Place

IFTF Map of the Decade 2022-2032—Complete Set of Research

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