“In the past, the future used to be better, too.”

Karl Valentin

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As experts in strategic foresight and scenario planning, we invite you to join us in navigating through the terra incognita of an increasingly confusing world. We sensitize for the key factors of basic changes, for dynamics and complexity. We identify pitfalls, open up new perspectives thus disclosing new potentials. So that your decisions will become sustainable and robust for the future.

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“The World isn’t Flat”: A Plea for Anticipatory Governance

The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020 is the long-awaited successor to the widely praised 2005 edition.... More >

German Federal Minister of Health: “COVID uncovers our weaknesses.”

So far, the containment of the COVID 19 pandemic in Germany has been fairly successful. This is... More >

Bureau Co-Founds GTO Group for COVID-19-Foresight

COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly. By now, US have been hit the hardest by numbers of infections... More >

Simulation of Political Strategies to Handle COVID-19

The COVID 19 virus is keeping the world on edge while its social, political and economic consequences... More >

Foresight Meets Board Game

“What lies beyond our imagination cannot be foreseen,” remarks the US futurist Peter Schwartz. In short: Thinking... More >

Halfway for the Relaunch of German Health Care

Prospectively, the healthcare system needs to improve itself in anticipating social megatrends and generating adequate responses to... More >

Long-Term Consulting Brot für die Welt (Strategy “2021+”)

In its most long-term consultancy so far, the Bureau für Zeitgeschehen (BfZ) supports the sister organisations Brot... More >

© EEIG „North Sea – Baltic Rail Freight Corridor” EZIG.

Readiness-Check for European Security

In recent years, the need for a strong and united Europe in global affairs became even clearer... More >

“Strategic Foresight and Conflict Analysis” for Future Diplomats

The class on “Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning” held by the Bureau für Zeitgeschehen (BfZ) has been... More >

25 January 2021

Hertie School of Governance: Skills Course “Judgement under Uncertainty. Decision Support through Foresight Analysis”

This course provides executives and decision-makers with methods and tools to take better decisions in a volatile,…

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Courses & Seminars

Four times a year, the Bureau für Zeitgeschehen offers tailor-made training courses on strategic foresight and scenario planning. Using current and future strategic challenges, participants learn how to develop scenarios of plausible alternative futures and to use them as 'strategic blueprints' in their daily work - both in the public and private sector.