Futures Beauty Liberates
We design strategies and scenarios.
We create orientation and force decisions.
We make the future a powerful lever.
We create progress
Creating bold future pictures.
Aligning strategy and vision.
Driving actionable change.
Enabling new beginnings
Demystifying uncertainty and unpredictability,
Creating security in a complex world.
Unlocking potential for transformative impact.
Elevating business with science
Navigating complexity with 25 years of expertise
Amplified by our global research network
Delivering solutions that redefine possibilities.

Future Study 2025

How do you elevate your future readiness?

Strategies that Shape the Future.

Amid rising uncertainty, relentless global competition, accelerated technological disruption, and geopolitical turbulence, strategic excellence is no longer optional—it’s imperative.

Unpredictability

In a volatile world, unpredictability is the new normal. Strategic excellence turns uncertainty into opportunity, enabling organizations to adapt, anticipate, and thrive amid disruption.

Our Mission

Our mission: Empower organizations to navigate markets with foresight and practical tools. We unlock potential, drive growth, and enable confident leadership in an unpredictable world.

Our Process

We turn complexity into clarity through deep analysis and tailored solutions. By aligning strategy, culture, and operations, we enable decisive action, rapid adaptation, and lasting impact.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Strategic Advisory

Strategic Clarity

Uncover and articulate the essence of your organization’s unique strengths to drive impact.

Future Intelligence

Leverage deep insights and trend analysis to anticipate shifts and shape your future.

Value Architecture

Design frameworks that align strategy, culture, and operations to unlock sustainable growth.

Decision Empowerment

Equip leaders with the tools and confidence to navigate complexity and run transformation.

Ecosystem Synergy

Integrate external and internal networks, fostering collaboration to maximize strategic potential.

Outcome Excellence

Deliver scalable outcomes that ensure long-term competitive advantage and organizational success.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF
With our
Strategy Refinery workshop

Explore the realm of possibilities to transform uncertainty into a strategic advantage

SCENARIOS

Scenario Design combines data-driven precision with exploratory creativity to prepare organizations to manage the unpredictabilities of our time.

Technological Disruptions
Ecological
Tipping Points
Geopolitical
Shifts
Economic
Volatility
Organizational Transformation
Cultural & Social
Dynamics
Civil Unrest &
Turmoil
The AI & Robot
Revolution
New Space Age & Resource Ventures

Strategic Foresight & Preparedness

Scenarios as a Competitive Advantage

Anticipate market shifts, emerging risks, and new opportunities with data-driven scenario management, ensuring resilience and competitive advantage.

Equip leadership with structured insights to act swiftly and confidently in uncertain environments, reducing reaction time and maximizing impact.

Identify vulnerabilities before they become critical threats, enabling proactive risk management and adaptive strategic planning.

Uncover hidden market opportunities and disruptive innovations by exploring diverse future scenarios and their business implications.

Unify teams and decision-makers around a shared vision of possible futures, strengthening strategic alignment and execution.

Stay ahead of industry disruptions by continuously refining strategies that ensure long-term growth and market leadership.

Future Pictures as Organisational Guidance

Navigate your whole organisation into the right direction

Future pictures provide a clear guidance on how to connect everyday’s operations and decisions with the organisational transformation. They amplify the company’s values and culture to navigate into a common future.

Future Pictures –
a 360° Perspective for Organisational Growth

Future Pictures seamlessly integrate organizational vision, strategic perspective, and daily operations. They serve as a unifying framework across all levels, connecting diverse areas while shaping operations, culture, behaviors, values, and decision-making.

Clarity in Complexity

Future pictures provide a clear vision that cuts through uncertainty, helping organizations navigate complexity with confidence and purpose.

Informed Decision-Making

Future pictures anchor values and behaviors, enabling smarter, future-focused decisions that align with long-term goals.

Driving Innovation

Future pictures inspire forward-thinking strategies, encouraging organizations to embrace change and uncover new opportunities.

Alignment Across Levels

They unite vision, strategy, and operations, creating a cohesive framework that connects every level and department.

Cultural Cohesion

By integrating culture into the bigger picture, they foster collaboration, strengthen identity, and drive shared commitment.

Embracing Uncertainty

They prepare organizations for potential disruptions, ensuring agility and adaptability in a rapidly changing world.

Inspire your team with a Future Day

A Future Day is a transformative experience that sparks innovation and turns bold visions into actionable strategies.

Designed for teams and leaders, it combines creative methods with structured approaches to explore future scenarios, uncover new opportunities, and develop tangible business cases.

This unique format fosters collaboration, aligns goals, and equips organizations to navigate change with confidence and clarity.

Discover our Future Days Program

A typical Future Day

In three dynamic stages, participants are guided through the day—from an inspiring morning to a clear, actionable outcome by the afternoon:

Stage 1

Exploring the
Potential Space

Explore trajectories, emerging opportunities, and untapped business potential with actionable insights.

Stage 2

Focusing on the
Action Space

Teams develop and deliver a compelling pitch for their business case with strategic focus.

Stage 3

Integration into the
Business Space

One case is selected, and all participants collaboratively build the foundation for a practical, execution-ready Business Canvas.

Future Days

Aligning Goals with Opportunities

A Strategy Day is an intensive workshop designed to tackle strategic challenges, uncover opportunities, and define actionable goals. Through advanced tools and collaborative frameworks, it aligns leadership, drives innovation, and delivers a clear path forward for sustainable success.

The world of possibilities

A deep dive into strategic development and scenario planning using innovative tools that go beyond Blue Ocean strategies—ecosystem mapping, AI-driven tools, holistic market analysis, and technology impact scanning.

Create a Roadmap to Digitalisation

Discover your business potential with Digital Landscaping and take the next critical steps on your roadmap. As a team, break down silos, unlock powerful synergies, and drive transformative growth.

Your Roadmap to AI Readiness

Distinguish between hype and real potential as you uncover your actionable roadmap to AI readiness: skillsets, tools, processes, integration possibilities, and measurable outcomes.

Your Roadmap to ESG Transformation

Turn ESG challenges into tangible opportunities, impactful projects, and innovative products. Discover your actionable roadmap for successful ESG transformation.

Unlock Your Company’s DNA

Playfully explore and uncover your company’s unique DNA, and see how the Singularity Method builds the foundation for strategy, purpose, and your Why/How/What.

our unique approach

The Progress Engine

Driving Growth and Future Readiness

The Progress Engine combines five core capabilities that empower organizations to thrive in complexity and navigate disruption. By integrating visionary thinking, adaptability, unique strengths, speed, and trust, it creates a dynamic framework for innovation, alignment, and sustained success.

Visionarity

Visionary capacity enables an organization to anticipate futures, identify opportunities, navigate complexity, inspire innovation, and drive transformation.

Pre-Adaptivity

Strategically leveraging existing strengths and resources to adapt and thrive in the face of change, growing stronger and more innovative through each challenge.

Singularité

Singularité reveals what an organization truly stands for and uncovers its unique, inherent strengths, driving clarity, purpose, alignment, focus, and authenticity

Accelerativity

Accelerativity enables an organization to adapt swiftly and spontaneously, ensuring agility, resilience, responsiveness, and competitive advantage.

Deep Trust

Trust in a shared future provides the strongest foundation for creativity, loyalty, collaboration, innovation, resilience, sustained growth, engagement, cohesion, and empowerment.

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Dive Deep Into the Progress Engine

Accelerating Innovation, Change & Transformation

The Progress Game

This Game makes change tangible, innovation actionable, and teams stronger—driving faster decisions, deeper engagement, and real transformation.

Engagement

Games captivate attention, making learning and change immersive, memorable, and impactful.

Acceleration

Real-time decisions and dynamic challenges drive faster innovation and strategic adaptation.

Alignment

Shared goals and competition foster collaboration, trust, and stronger team cohesion.

Actionability

Experiential problem-solving turns insights into immediate, real-world execution.

The Progress Mindset

PLAY. COMPETE. TRANSFORM.

Six Game Modes

Real change happens when strategy turns into action.

The Progress Game creates high-impact learning environments where teams challenge perspectives, master complexity, and accelerate transformation—together. It’s not just a game; it’s the ultimate catalyst for innovation, collaboration, and breakthrough results.

Progress Game

Master change, drive impact, and turn strategy into action—faster and smarter.

AI Game

Decode AI’s potential, outthink disruption, and build the future—one move at a time.

Innovation Game

Crack complex challenges, spark breakthrough ideas, and make innovation unstoppable.

Impact Game

Balance profit and planet, rethink ESG, and turn sustainability into competitive advantage.

Strategy Game

Sharpen foresight, outmaneuver uncertainty, and craft winning strategies under pressure.

CxP Game

Reimagine customer journeys, amplify engagement, and make every interaction count.

Turning Complexity into Momentum

WE

We are a strategic advisory with a global expertise in strategy, transformation, culture, brand and execution.

Our 70-member team, based in Düsseldorf, Paris, Berlin, and Munich, combines executive leadership with cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, cultures, and languages—operating seamlessly across multiple legal entities.

At the core of the advisory network is richtwert GmbH, built on a legacy spanning over 25 years.

In a world of rapid change, companies need momentum: Our Progress Engine turns uncertainty into competitive strength by identifying hidden opportunities, unlocking cultural energy, and driving execution. We bridge vision and action, ensuring impact. Stability is an illusion—progress is a choice. Those who embrace it will lead.

Within the richtwert Network

MEET THE
core TEAM

Prof. Tim Bruysten

Managing Director

Sabrina Nicke

Partner, Project Management

Guido Becherer

Director Strategy & Communications

Daria Peter

Research

Sascha Cordt

Brand & Media Services

Dr. Matthias Georgi

Partner, Historian

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