What’s Next Consulting Oy is focused on issues like anticipating and innovating the future changes by using weak signals. Weak signals are signs of some new issues and they can tell us about changes in the future. See here some examples of weak signals spotted by Elina Hiltunen.

The main actor in What’s Next Consulting is futurist Elina Hiltunen who is currently finalizing her doctoral thesis about using weak signals in organizational environment. Hiltunen has been interested in weak signals since 1998. Read here an interview about Hiltunen.

What’s Next Consulting and Elina Hiltunen offers for companies tools, education and inspiring lectures about weak signals. Example of one tool is the Futures Window, which is a method that utilizes visual weak signals (read here more).

Elina is also working with a revolutionary futures tool, TrendWiki. TrendWiki is a tool for organizations for weak signal collecting and analyzing. It utilizes the ideas of social media and includes sophisticated text mining tools. If you got interested about the tool, send email to Elina: whatsnext[at]luukku.com for testing the demo version.

Some examples of speeches of Hiltunen:

• European Futurist Conference, key note speaker, November, 2007
• CostA 22 conference, Greece, july, 2007
• Trend und Zunkunfsmanagemant conference , Germany, one of the key note speaker, May , 2007
• Call for Creative Futures, Finland, October, 2006
• Helsinki Design Hub, key note speaker, sebtember, 2006
• Creating Global Strategies for Humanity’s Future, WFS conference, Canada, july, 2007

Academic work:

• Was it a wild card or just our blindness to gradual change?, Journal of Future Studies, 2006
• The Future Sign and its three dimensions, Futures, 2007
• The signification process of the future sign (Kuusi ja Hiltunen), Tutu e-julkaisu, 2007
• Where do future-oriented people find weak signals?, Tutu e-julkaisu, 2007
• The futures window- a medium for presenting visual weak signals to trigger employees’ futures thinking in organizations, HSE julkaisu, 2007
• Scenarios: Process and Outcome, Journal of Future Studies, Scenario Symposium

Elina’s blog can be found here.

Contact:

What’s Next Consulting Oy/

Elina Hiltunen
Location: Finland
E-mail: whatsnext@luukku.com
Tel +358-44-0299 122