Glaucus Globe assists businesses in navigating global shifts and challenges by offering practical approaches and multidisciplinary collaborations to leverage opportunities.
Get In TouchGlaucus Globe is a consultancy house which focuses on foresight. It is the brainchild of the owner and founder Toni van Niekerk.
Toni has 20 years of experience involving intelligent decision-making in various geographies and industries and strongly advocates the need to embed futures-thinking practices into businesses. By enacting informative scenarios, businesses are primed to capitalize on several possible versions of their futures – which allows for better sense making of uncertainties, risk, opportunities and of course, decision-making.
Glaucus Globe operates from Cape Town, South Africa, and collaborates with a network of high-profile academics and business professionals from around the globe, broadening the horizons and extending the reach of clients.
In the mire of global shifts in business markets, market responses, market vulnerabilities and receptiveness, businesses need to transform dramatically if they want to be in the infinite game.
Africa,especially the public sector, is an important focus in the Glaucus Globe portfolio.
It is Africa’s time now. The continent can emerge in the aftermath of a global health crisis into its own version of modernity and become a sought-after market in a new socio-economic order.
Converging theoretical approaches and multidisciplinary collaborations, identifying, profiling and communicating with homogeneous target groups, keeping abreast of the trends, measuring impacts of various global and domestic scenarios, highlighting risks across collaborations, partnerships and stakeholders, creating collective mind-sets, identifying experimentation opportunities and building capacity for future thinking, are all part of the cross disciplinary approach towards achieving that goal.
Glaucus Globe seeks to assist clients to rethink their futures within a completely changing global, regional and local landscape.
All businesses operate within a certain environment globally, regionally, nationally and locally on both a transactional and contextual level.
At a transactional level business can exercise a certain amount of influence on competitors, partners and stakeholders.
At contextual levels i.e. sociological, technological, economic, environmental and political spheres, businesses have little influence and can only respond accurately when they are informed and aware of shifts and changes.
Glaucus Globe provides businesses with a multidimensional view of their whole environment - also from the specific vantage points of their stakeholders. The consultancy also assists businesses in engaging these stakeholders.
Environmental scanning involves a long task list.The short version is as follows:
Sketch and summarize relations, patterns, principles across political, physical, economic,environment, social, technological and trade environments.
Identify global trends, patterns and shifts that may potentially impact your industry and stakeholders.
Understand interactions between global and local trends that could impact business goals.
Identify the mechanisms required to manage the likely impact of identified trends and variables.
Assess the dexterity of existing business models.
Search for transcendent themes and build bridges to the future.
The list for stakeholder mapping and profiling includes the following tasks:
Sketch a comprehensive picture of all stakeholders. Nuances and information not accessible via AI.
Profiling values, cultural orientations, beliefs, reference models, incentives, funding streams, agendas, priorities, power dynamics within their own systems.
Evaluate,identify and profile possible new and future stakeholders.
Investigate possible relationships between clients and newly identified future stakeholders
Identify areas of common ground and co-operative working potential.
Identify system patterns, reasons why they are perpetuated and plot the long-term consequences of current attitudes.
Communication is an important differentiator found in successful businesses. The Glaucus approach to outcome-driven communication involves:
Creating business communication plans to achieve informative, regulatory, unequivocal, integrative consistency and cohesion.
Creating features of persuasion, influencing
co-operation and collaboration - allowing for emergence, experimentation and social innovation.
Matching messaging to the cultural and sociological needs of target groups; including infographics and storytelling.
Glaucus Globe aims primarily to future proof clients to ensure the timeous rethinking of business models and practices. Modular packages can be custom-designed for each client.
Review of 2019 - 2022 strategic plan:
Global movement with 120 member organizations across
the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa.
Futures scenario development work:
Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait.
Guidelines to facilitate 13 client sessions:
USA-based client.
Moving ideology to deliverology:
Saudi Arabia based client.
Leveraging foresight approaches
towards achieving SDG 4
Design and delivery of 10 focus groups
and international workshop.
Community profiling and social facilitation:
SA National Goverment Department
Get In TouchToni van Niekerk works with collaborators and conversation partners across the globe.