The General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) plays a critical role in Saudi Arabia, managing social security, retirement pensions and workplace injury protection.
For leaders operating in such a complex and evolving environment, strategic planning increasingly requires more than looking at historical trends or extending today’s assumptions into the future.
Leaders need the ability to anticipate change, challenge assumptions and prepare for multiple possible futures.
That was the focus of an immersive learning experience using AEQLIA’s HORIZN Business Simulation, designed to build strategic foresight and future intelligence capabilities.
Traditional planning often starts with what is already known.
Strategic foresight starts by asking what might be changing.
Participants explored how leaders can:
The objective was not to predict the future.
It was to strengthen the ability to prepare for uncertainty.
Through the HORIZN Business Simulation, participants worked with evolving signals, trends and scenarios to explore how the future could unfold.
The simulation introduced a practical foresight process:
Prepare
Gather evidence, identify signals and drivers, frame the right futures questions and challenge existing assumptions.
Foresight
Develop plausible, compelling and sometimes provocative narratives of multiple futures rather than relying on a single prediction.
Insight
Explore what those futures could mean for the organisation, its stakeholders and strategic priorities.
Action
Prioritise the decisions and actions that can be taken today to prepare for tomorrow.
Participants also explored future intelligence concepts such as scenario planning and McKinsey’s Three Horizons framework, helping them connect long-term thinking with current strategic priorities.
The experience helped GOSI leaders move from simply discussing the future to actively working with uncertainty.
Participants practised how to:
HORIZN created a structured way for leaders to think beyond immediate priorities while remaining grounded in decisions they can make today.
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