Resources
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.
Inside the Paper
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Making sense of a reality that is harder to read
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What foresight is, and how it meets systems and design thinking
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How foresight is practised — framing to monitoring, with global examples
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Crossdive: a platform for interdisciplinary conversation
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Where foresight creates value: business, government, design
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Engaging with uncertainty more thoughtfully
PUBLICATIONS
India 2035 : Four scenarios for future
AI at the Helm of Policy
India AI Governance Report
India 2030: Strategic Pathways to Growth Megatrends Report
India 2035: Four Future Scenarios explores four plausible futures for India’s next decade—from a cognitive workforce and green industrial powerhouse to climate-fragile food systems and a sovereign spacefaring nation. Drawing on data, policy signals, and morphological analysis across 14 critical systems, the study reveals the shifts, catalysts, fault lines, and strategic implications shaping each future, helping leaders move beyond prediction toward building resilience, relevance, and sovereignty.
AI at the Helm of Policy: India AI Governance Report explores how India can leverage its digital infrastructure, demographic scale, and AI capabilities to transform public administration. Benchmarking India against governance innovations in Estonia, Singapore, and the EU, the report identifies 12 strategic AI interventions—from smart taxation to intelligent environmental monitoring—offering a blueprint for building scalable, AI-powered governance models and positioning India as a global reference point for the future of public administration.
India 2030: Strategic Pathways to Growth — Megatrends Report explores the forces shaping India’s transformation across 5 megatrends and 26 trends, spanning geopolitics, urbanisation, digital lifestyles, sustainable growth, and the future of work. The report offers strategic cues for businesses, policymakers, think tanks, academia, and innovation leaders to understand emerging shifts, identify opportunities, and shape resilient strategies for India’s next phase of growth.
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