SEMPERIT is a global manufacturer of industrial polymer products and solutions with over 195 years of company history. Its product portfolio includes hydraulic and industrial hoses, conveyor belts, escalator handrails, and elastomer products for windows, doors, and facades. SEMPERIT serves customers in agriculture, mining, construction, healthcare, and the automotive industry worldwide.
Challenge: Strengthening Future Viability with Corporate Foresight
- Simulating and Effectively Addressing Risks and Uncertainties
- Strategic Early Warning for Identifying Future Opportunities
- Establishing Future Thinking Among Employees and in Multidisciplinary Teams
Integrating Innovations, Environment, and New Business Areas
Changing lifestyles, environmentally conscious consumers, and new customer needs demand specialized and sophisticated solutions in ever shorter timeframes. This creates new markets and business areas for SEMPERIT.
Developing Alternative Future Scenarios in Practice
Nobody can predict the future, but with a futurist's toolkit, we can explore possible, plausible, and desirable futures.
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Project Successes and Perspectives
Strengthening SEMPERIT's ability to navigate volatility, complexity, and uncertain prospects, both now and in the future, is crucial for sustainably enhancing resilience and future viability.
Leveraging Corporate Foresight Strategically
SEMPERIT is intensifying its preparations for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. Further strengthening its future viability involves systematically observing change processes and their potential impacts. Thanks to the strategic foresight implemented together with TRENDONE, SEMPERIT is now even better equipped to prepare for possible futures.
Involvement of 20+ Employees
The strong commitment of stakeholders and the personalized, individual onboarding of all participants led to a smooth process, enabling participants to train their future thinking and develop future competence. The open nature of the workshop and the tireless contributions of the employees resulted in a high degree of co-creation and engagement. This bottom-up effect fosters a vibrant and open innovation culture throughout the company.
Identification of external factors in the form of (mega)trends with potential impacts on the future of the sector through a system/value chain analysis. Assessment of the certainty and uncertainty and the influence of individual trends on SEMPERIT.
Analyzing the potential consequences of trends and associated uncertainties using future radars, identifying extreme scenarios, and compiling them into a future table.
Defining key uncertainty drivers, identifying premises and prerequisites, assumptions and drivers, and the core concept of the scenarios.
Identifying the impacts the scenarios will have on the industry, and formulating potential tactics and recommendations for SEMPERIT.
