Future timeline 2060

Oltmans van Niekerk collaborates with recognised global brands to envision and shape the future. We work with a timeline-based methodology that is the backbone of our macro-trend research and foresight process.

By identifying what lies ahead, analyse which future developments will impact your business or brand and create resilient future strategies together. The average executive cadence is quarterly, while the average strategic disruption unfolds over 2 to 10 years. OvN assists companies in learning to operate across multiple time horizons and build resilience.

Our 2060 Timeline helps organisations navigate long-term change by mapping key societal, technological, environmental, and economic shifts across distinct future phases. It connects and focuses today's decisions to tomorrow's outcomes, supporting resilient, human, future-fit strategies.

Multiple time Horizons

Attention is focused on where systems intersect: economic, technological, ecological, social, and psychological. These connections often reveal where new behaviours, business models, and values begin to form. The role of foresight here is not to predict outcomes, but to clarify viable directions.

Foresight starts by looking at future developments and datapoints to understand how technology, society, culture, and governance could interact within human and cultural contexts. Change rarely moves in straight lines. It takes shape through friction between systems, traditions, values, and lived experience, often moving at different speeds and cycles. We identify these connections and phases to understand and prepare for the future.

Reading across time helps organisations prepare rather than react. Short-term signals, mid-term transitions, and long-term futures are connected. The three horizons show how foresight moves from awareness and vision in the far future, through preparation and sense-making in the mid-term, to concrete actions and direction in the short-term.