nVision - Our Online Trends Tool

The Future Foundation’s online service, nVision, provides a systematic approach to trends analysis.  nVision uses proprietary quantitative data to support the trends that we have identified.  Those trends are bought together into a cohesive whole in our Central Scenario document that vividly describes our view of the world.  It is the intellectual underpinning for our work, an organising perspective that traces all our trends back to the major drivers of change.

nVision is our knowledge database, an online delivery of trends, research, analysis and forecasts delivered via the internet to around 200 corporate subscribers.  In addition to our proprietary research, it includes more than 120 industry, Government and academic sources including Time Use and European Social Survey.  As well as providing a unique knowledge of macro trends, nVision also delivers detailed data on particular target groups, countries or commercial sectors.

Thanks to our understanding and monitoring of trends, we understand why consumers behave the way they do.  Therefore we are uniquely placed to anticipate and forecast behaviour from current attitudes and actions.  Our nVision service contains over 500 qualitative forecasts including technology take up, spending patterns, economic indicators as well as a range of key values and attitudes.  We also produce bespoke forecasts on a regular basis through our project work. 

nVision is built around three types of information – trends, reports and charts.

We have three nVision services, within the UK, pan-Euoprean and nVision France.  Each of these feature our TrendExpress and QuantExpress services.