The purpose of this guide is to provide a simple and practical approach to futures thinking.

Futures work has been developed by consultants and others to a high degree of sophistication and complexity. However this guide aims to present a straightforward approach to thinking about the long term that can be used by organisations themselves with limited help from outsiders. It does this by focusing on a simple methodology that the Tomorrow Project has used in its ten years of futures work, using examples taken from that work.

The guide has six sections: