Horizon scanning

These days, waiting until risks or opportunities are right in front of you is too late. Horizon scanning helps you take control - spotting the signals of change early, analysing their impact, and planning strategically to navigate what’s next.

Instead of reacting to change, you can anticipate it.

What Is Horizon Scanning?

Horizon scanning is a structured process for identifying and analysing the emerging trends, risks, and opportunities that could affect your organisation. It’s about looking beyond the immediate and asking:

• What’s coming?

• How will it impact us?

• What do we need to do about it?

This isn’t just a box-ticking exercise - it’s the foundation for smarter, future-proof decisions.

Why does it matter?

• Anticipate risks: Stay ahead of regulatory changes, technological advancements, and societal shifts.

• Spot opportunities: Identify innovations and trends that could give you a competitive edge.

• Strategic confidence: Plan with clarity, knowing you’ve considered the bigger picture.

Who is it for?

Horizon scanning is ideal for compliance leaders, risk managers, and strategic decision-makers navigating complex environments like:

• Data protection and privacy

• AI and emerging technologies

• Ethics and sustainability

• Security and regulatory change

• If you’re facing complexity and uncertainty, this is how you stay ahead.

Our approach

Step 1: Scan the landscape
We identify and prioritise the key forces shaping your world - regulations, technology, social change, and beyond.

Step 2: Analyse the impact
We evaluate what these changes mean for your organisation, cutting through the noise to focus on what matters most.

Step 3: Plan Your response
We help you develop actionable strategies so you can confidently navigate uncertainty and position your organisation for success.

The outcome

With horizon scanning, you’re not just reacting—you’re driving the agenda. You’ll have a clear roadmap for the future, backed by insight and foresight, so you can move forward with confidence.

Demo radars

Here are a couple demo radars. Feel free to zoom in and out of them, click on some of the entries.

Let's work together

Ready to start scanning the horizon? Contact us today to build a smarter, more proactive strategy for what’s next.

How we can help you

• We can get you started by facilitating the end to end processes and then maintain and update your radars on an ongoing basis with regular interaction with you and your team

• We can can help you get started by facilitating the end to end processes and then handing responsibilities to you, providing support afterwards where needed