Malaysian Foresight Institute (myForesight®) is a pioneering, national-level initiative dedicated to the study and application of the field of Foresight. myForesight® provides a common Malaysia-based platform to share experiences, insights and expertise on future studies at the local and global levels. The key components to its mission are intelligence, research, competency and community service.
myForesight® supports the country’s future needs and development by utilising scientifc & hybrid methodologies to conduct various foresight related programmes nationwide. Programme by myForesight® serve to guide the Government and Industry to systematically plan for the future.
Foresight has been acknowledged as a key high-level instrument in strategising and planning for the future and adopted to model, understand and shape the future in order to gain competitive advantage through strategic decision-making.
It is also a trans-disciplinary field that tracks future trends in the sphere of human activities and is an essential part of the planning process within the policy-making and industrial establishments, among others. It foresees new horizons and key drivers for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) as well as weak, extraneous signals that may snowball into disruptive, “wildcard” events.