Human Foresight beats AI-driven hyper-competition
Don’t Get Lost in the AI Crowd
Humans use divergent thinking to create new futures. AI mines the past to arrive at the same strategic conclusions for everyone.
The AI commodification of analysis cannot access the experience, creativity, and singular knowledge resident in the human minds of your company. They remain your only sustainable competitive advantage.
Bringing those brains together in curated, structured conversations about the future fuels divergent thinking no generative AI can match. AI looks backward at what is already known for insight, humans look ahead and create new knowledge.
Collaborative Foresight and Strategic Innovation exposes assumptions, widens the view of the marketplace, and aligns leaders around opportunities that other companies cannot see. It is your company’s antidote to the road of intense hyper-competition that ubiquitous access to AI will bring.
Wavepoint specializes in collaboratively crafting your company’s proprietary perspective on the future and building strategic innovation that grows your unique competitive advantage. Learn more about our approach here or scroll down for our point of view, services, and network.
Our Services
Beyond AI Analysis: Human-Led Foresight & Strategic Innovation
Wavepoint offers comprehensive strategic foresight and innovation services for companies from $200 million to $200 billion, across CPG, Retail, and Manufacturing industries. We've automated much of the research, freeing our teams to focus exclusively on what matters most: designing collaborative experiences where your best people develop insights no algorithm can generate.
Our Proprietary Approach:
Scenario Planning Projects that develop proprietary strategy and distinctive innovation
Collaborative foresight workshops that activate your organization's divergent thinking
Foresight & Strategic Innovation Capability Building through master classes, keynote speeches, and executive coaching
Selected Clients
Prospectives
Thoughts on the application of foresight to innovation and strategy from Wavepoint’s founder Christian Crews. The title “Prospectives” is derived from combining “prospection” which means imagining possible futures, and “perspective” which describes a specific point of view on events or the future.
About Wavepoint
Wavepoint specializes in designing collaborative experiences that produce proprietary views of the future, and translating those views into strategy and innovation. We work with Fortune 500 clients in CPG, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail, and Education sectors, helping them generate multiple novel solutions and reveal previously invisible possibilities.
Our Philosophy: In the pre-AI era, strategic foresight required large investments in research and analysis. Now, artificial intelligence has transformed this equation. What once required 30% of our effort can be automated, allowing us to focus our energy—and your investment—on the irreplaceable core: your people equipped with the best information, engaged in systematic processes that yield proprietary insights and actionable roadmaps.
Our Founder
Christian Crews has over 25 years of experience guiding companies to grow through foresight and strategic innovation. As a consultant for the last 16 years he has worked across multiple industries. He has also held foresight, strategy, and growth positions at Toshiba Industrial Corporation, Pitney Bowes, and the Waitt Institute, as well as merchandising and management roles at Hechinger Co., a former $2 billion retailer.
Christian holds a MS in Studies of the Future from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and a BA in English from the College of William and Mary. He writes the Futures Praxis column for the journal Research-Technology Management and is a speaker at numerous conferences.
Access his Prospectives blog on foresight & strategic innovation here.
Our Network
Curated Expertise for Differentiated Outcomes: Wavepoint partners with an experienced network of professionals who combine deep experience in human interaction design, innovation, and foresight, with the ability to leverage data and AI to host strategic dialogue about the future.
