Readable
Foresight you can read, apply and argue with; the thinking behind Crossdive, in the open.
Where the thinking behind Crossdive gets written down. The white paper carries the core research on the extreme decade; the perspectives take one signal apart at a time; and once the summit closes, the event summary records what the room sharpened, questioned, or dropped. Signals, the tensions between them, and the choices they force; in one place.
Research Focus
From Complexity to Possibility
How foresight helps organisations understand change and shape better responses.
Authors: Manoj Kothari, Debaditya Sekhar Jena, Vinit Soneji and Mrunal Paranjape
From Complexity to Possibility makes the case for why India needs to build strategic foresight as a critical organisational and institutional capability. As technological, geopolitical, environmental and social shifts become increasingly interconnected, organisations must make consequential decisions without certainty about what comes next.
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This white paper explores how foresight, systems thinking and design thinking can help organisations make sense of complexity, recognise emerging change, challenge assumptions and explore multiple plausible futures. It shows how foresight can expand the possibilities organisations consider, reveal risks and opportunities that conventional planning may overlook, and strengthen their capacity to make more resilient and adaptive decisions today. Ultimately, foresight can help India move from reacting to change towards actively shaping what comes next.
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Engaging with uncertainty more thoughtfully
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Where foresight creates value: business, government, design
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Crossdive: a platform for interdisciplinary conversation
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How foresight is practised — framing to monitoring, with global examples
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What foresight is, and how it meets systems and design thinking
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Making sense of a reality that is harder to read
Inside the Paper
ONE THEME AT A TIME
Shorter reads that take a single signal out of the white paper and follow it into lived reality — what is shifting, who feels it first, and which decisions it changes.
Event summary — coming soon
Once the summit closes, this space will carry the key conversations, the signals that held up under scrutiny, and where the room disagreed.
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Key conversations across the four themes
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Signals sharpened, revised, or dropped
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What leaders said they would decide differently
The research continues in the room
Crossdive 2026 puts this research in front of a senior, cross-sector room. What that conversation sharpens, contests, or discards is published here as the next stage of the work — not as event coverage.
Publishing after 23 Oct 2026