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Cultural Foresight + Insights

Tap into cultural change to adapt, innovate and grow.

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We build cultural foresight thinking into teams and organizations to help them design for the future. Our cultural foresight and insights services leverage a range of approaches to identify innovation spaces and opportunities to deepen brand relevance.

Leveraging behavioral science expertise, we use semiotics, ethnography, trendscan analysis and value identification to reveal whitespace and trends shaping customer expectations, habits, motivations and beliefs – both today and in the future.

Explore Our Cultural Foresight + Insights Services

Behavioral Science Consulting

People are complicated. There are layers to their layers. We unpack the drivers of human behavior that can be applied at scale.

Semiotics

To gain a foundational understanding of how a complex topic (e.g., ‘trust’ or ‘status’ or ‘value’) is showing up in culture today, we use semiotics to explore how the idea is being communicated through visual, verbal and activation cues across a range of brand and cultural examples.

Category Deep Dive

Leverage semiotic analysis to uncover the implicit dynamics shaping a specific category or industry to identify the deeper themes being communicated by brands.

Trendscan Analysis

Conduct exploration into a category (e.g., retail) to identify and analyze the key themes and emerging trends driving the evolution of the landscape.

Emergent Opportunity Analysis

Take a broad, outside-in look at the cultural forces impacting a brand or category to unearth forward-leaning opportunity areas.

Cultural Context Analysis

Examine shifts in the wider societal and cultural landscape to understand the evolving values of consumers in a certain market.

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