SCAN by Jon Cherry
Horizon scanning is a proactive approach to risk management that involves identifying and monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and threats that could impact your business. Our monthly horizon scanning service uses a range of tools and techniques to gather and analyse data, providing actionable insights and strategic recommendations to help your organisation stay ahead of the curve.
We curate and capture our core selection of hits based on years of experience scanning the most credible resources, as well as through our network of global industry experts.
What we offer is not an endless list of noise, but rather important insights as to what opportunities and risks these changes may offer to forward-orientated organisations.
What does your horizon scan look at?
Our scanning framework looks at changes happening in technology, economics, politics, culture, consumer behaviour and new thinking emerging from the fringes.
The framework curates important changes that are not just driving the headlines, but rather tracks how people themselves are interpreting and evolving their behaviour based on this change.
What is the purpose of the research?
Good strategy needs to be informed by deep insights as to what is happening in the marketplace and how change might impact the future in which an organisation will operate and create value.
Organisations that are able to map these changes intelligently give themselves a significant competitive advantage over those that don’t, or those that are not as skilled at using these insights.
How are these insights presented?
Our horizon scan is available to clients as a stand-alone 1-hour keynote presentation for conferences and strategy workshops or as a monthly report to subscribers.
Please get in touch with us to enquire about it.
“Strategy is not a goal setting exercise that rolls around once a year with great fanfare. It’s an exercise in squarely facing your greatest obstacles and designing the best way to overcome them.”
Hi - I’m Jon Cherry. For the past 20 years I have helped countless teams and organisations in 8 different countries overcome their significant business challenges through the designing of great strategies.
From blue-chip corporate companies through to innovative technology startups my speciality is in applying an innovative foresight-based approach to complex problem solving.
I’ve had the privilege of speaking about strategy to audiences of some of South Africa’s leading organisations over the years and regularly provide commentary on business innovation on media platforms like Capetalk / 702 and Moneyweb.