What we do
Our Definition & Mission
Born Partners strategic futures design agency is a new era consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations anticipate and prepare for possible future scenarios. Such an agency typically combines expertise in futures studies, strategic planning, design thinking, and innovation management to help clients envision potential future outcomes and develop strategic plans to navigate them successfully.
We work with clients to identify emerging trends and drivers of change, explore possible future scenarios, and develop strategies to adapt to different futures. This may involve conducting research, running scenario planning workshops, using design thinking methodologies, and developing innovative solutions.
Our goal is to help organizations proactively plan for and shape their future, rather than merely react to changes as they occur. By helping clients anticipate and prepare for different futures, these agencies enable them to stay ahead of the curve, make informed decisions, and remain competitive in an ever-changing business landscape.
What is the future of my industry, my ecosystem?
Who is our future customer? stakeholder?
How, where and when can we lead instead of follow?
What are the next great things for us?
Strategically imagineering viable tomorrows, developing practical options and choices to help businesses, enterprises and brands propely evolve and secure a desired tomorrow.
Your future depends on the Quality of the decisions we make today.
We operate on the Edge of Now.
We aim at prolonging and securing a quality lifespan for your enterprise, brand, people.
We are Enterprise & Brand Evolutionists. Futures hackers.
Just keeping an eye out for what’s next/new is the easiest part of the job. The true challenge, lies in understanding what it’s trying to tell us and what it is asking of us.
Then, the magic happens, when we translate it into practical knowledge, policies, prototypes of matching futures for our clients.
Which version of your brand or organisation will fit your matched and desired future?
We work with people, companies and institutions on how to imagine,
discuss and evaluate contextually relevant futures, develop visions and new value sources, discover possible threats, blindspots, and influential ecosystem narratives.
BORN works with business teams that are too head-down with day-to-day tasksto rise up, stay on a lucid path, stick to the rhythm & pace of the new world, and create more value by properly adapting to uncharted new ecosystems.
We are building the next generation of Future Facing organisations.
1. We develop innovation strategies, policies and prototypes enabling you to become a future game-changer.
2. We are an Innovation partner, focusing on special projects, often stealth.
3 We work in a Lab style on all contexts: Research, Development, Prototyping.
4. We collaborate with vast/deep worldwide network, curated for every project for optimum results.
Strategically anticipate.
Become Futures-ready.
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OUR STRATEGIC ADVISORY SERVICES
We focus on Future-adaptivity and Resilience.
We do Research, Development, Advisory, Partnership creation, Capacity programs.
We give custom empowering talks, event content/curation.
Projects timelines: from One Hour talk, one day advisory, to 3-6 months for research & development.
We do 3 kinds of projects:
NOWING
Projects focused on Current issues:
1. Sense-making and Costume deep research for New territories/ecosystems
2. Current Brand potential Assessment + ways for new value sources
3. Internal Brand strategy for enhancing corporate culture
4. New services & equity generators strategy + development
5. Innovation policy & development
6. Preparation for expanding/entering the global market
7. Brand equity exloitation & expansion
FUTURING
Projects focused on Evolution
1. Costume research, Sense-making, and Futures exploratory reports for desired markets, ecosystems, new services, future customer segments, corporate culture.
2. Master plan for future-readiness: comprehensive research detailing "The future of" including a How-to sections.
3. Re-imagining org/business/brand: strategic innovation R&D plan exploring and detailing what/how will your organization will probably/potentially look like in 3-5 -10 years.
SPEAKING
Our team members are frequent speakers, panelists, and guests in live events, conferences, webcasts, panels, TV and radio broadcasts, podcasts, videos and a range of other public and private settings and channels.
If you have a speaking opportunity for which you would like to engage a member of
BORN PARTNERS contact us via itai@bornpartners.co,
or, itaitalmi@gmail.com
To facilitate requests, please provide useful information:
- Event and audience profile
- Speaking and travel budget
- Any special event requirements
Inspirational, experiential,
and Practical content
Our Mind-provoking talks will help you to more deeply explore and swim in the world surrounding you and open your mind to radical new perspectives and potentials.
RECENT LECTURE TOPICS:
THE FUTURES OF ME&WE
A JOURNEY INTO THE EVOLUTIONARY PHASES OF YOU AS A HUMAN, A CREATOR, A RESIDENT, A NOMAD, ENTREPRENEUR. HOW WILL YOU HAVE TO EVOLVE AND ADAPT TO CONTAIN AND FLOW WITH THE NEW PACE OF THIS RADICAL WORLD? WHAT IS THE QUANTIFIED SELF? FROM WHAT SHOULD YOU PROTECT YOUR BODY AND SELF? WHAT IS WAITING FOR US AS A SOCIETY? AS AN ORGANIZATION? A CITY?
INTRODUCTION TO FUTURES-THINKING
A JOURNEY INTO DISCOVERING AND CREATING POSSIBLE, VIABLE, AND PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE FUTURES, THROUGH A PROCESS OF SCIENTIFIC & RICH FICTION RESEARCH TO A HUMAN-CENTRED FUTURES DESIGN - VIA STRATEGIC IMAGINATION PHASES.
TILL AN EXPERIENTIAL FUTURE PROTOTYPE.
MOONSHOTS & NEXT GENERATION THINKING
HOW CAN WE STRATEGICALLY IMAGINE AND DEVELOP CRAZY, BOLD, 3RD HORIZON, WILD CARDS KIND OF FUTURES? WHY SHOULD INNOVATION PRACTITIONERS ADOPT WAYS FROM ARTS, SCI-FI, SPECULATIVE DESIGN, FRINGE MOVIES AND WORLD-BUILDING TECHNICS ?
WILD. WILDER. WILDEST.
FROM DOMESTICATED LIVING, WORKING, PLAYING, TO A REWILDING/FERAL REALITIES AND ALTERNATIVE FUTURE
LENGTH: 45 - 90 minutes per session - depending on context, need, budget, venue.
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ITAI TALMI
ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS, BRAND EVOLUTIONIST
STRATEGIC IMAGINEER
Itai Talmi is a pioneer of futures design in Israel. Itai works around the world in multiple project dealing with startegic futures, with private and public entities.
Itai specialises in R&D Innovation projects, special strategic missions, and Strategic/imaginative advisory.
Itai helps individuals, teams, organisations, and brands discover, create, and secure futures worth aspiring for, exploring and develop possible futures, and utilise the chosen desired futures.
Itai Advocates for Humanity-centred futures and futures literacy.
A Strategic Futurist, buiness and brand Evolution expert. Strategic imagineer, innovation & strategy consultant,
experimentalist, entrepreneur, lecturer,
Itai's work is focusing on exploring and seizing valuable possible futures, focusing on widening and deepening the imagination, strategically, beyond conventional innovation methods. Definitely not your typical business or innovation consultant.
Itai is leading BORN PARTNERS that was founded as a worldly-collaborative futures innovation R&D firm in 2010, Based on a strong network of partners globally, and early years were mostly focused on large corporate brand innovation and customer experience projects.
BORN PARTNERS is an independent project firm focusing on Strategically imagining possible and viable future worlds, future evolutions, evolutionary phases, abundant future possibilities, new service situations, new consumption spaces, experiential planning, and most important: Futures World-building - Strategically imagination of what could be and how does it look, feels, and behave.
Together with a vast brain-trust global and local network, the unique experimental R&D firm work brought new ways from alternative fields such as Speculative and Systems design, foresight, artistic, alternative strategic and strategic design research approaches into the new rapidly-changing world of innovation. And, started to embed these into new and existing projects, with great success and happy enriched clients.
BORN PARTNERS works for some of the world’s biggest organizations like Markets.com, Orange, C2, GAP, VIM, THNK School for Creative Leadership, Amsterdam Municipality, Carnival cruise lines, Holmes Place, and more.
Over the years, BORN PARTNERS firm and Itai Talmi, has evolved into a Human-centered futures R&D firm. Itai has gained critical acclaim for creating work that act as guided expeditions into the chaotic wilderness of our new world, culture paradigms, cities, consumers, citizens, technological shifts, provoking innovators to discover and develop alternative futures scenarios, experiences, prototypes, and new value sources.
ITAI TALMI BACKGROUND
1. Led projects for Fortune 500 companies, NGO'S, cities (like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Herzliya) countries (Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Caribbean islands) next to academy, and special projects for entrepreneurs. Among my clients: C2, Markets.com, THNK, Vodafone, Amsterdam Municipality, Orange, Carnival cruises, GAP, Holmes Place, VIM, Keystone, and more.
2. Over a worldwide professional journey over 30 years, worked deeply in various categories such as: consumer brands, financial, retail, technology, education, NGOs, cities, social and cultural institutions.
3. A Founding-participant and an Ambassador at THNK School of Creative Leadership since 2011.4. Studied In Melbourne, Amsterdam, and in London: Phenomenology, Art, media studies, design strategy, business & marketing strategy, Innovation and Brand management. Mostly studying by working. By doing.
5. Itai lectures worldwide, teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, post-normal business development, and alternative design practices, for both MBA and design students in various academic institutions such as: Shenkar, Coleman college, HIT, SKMB, IAF.
6. Activity is divided into Commercial and Social. Next to client work and own initiatives, itai always involved in some kind of social activity. From Hosting the Global children Designathon, to consulting and mentoring young next generation entrepreneurs, to developing Future-readiness workshops for future generations, lecturing and teaching. That what keeps his energy flowing.
Reach direcly at:
+972547421821
itai@bornpartners.co
Currently, based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
LECTURES
WE CREATE & CURATE BESPOKE 'FUTURE-RELATED' TALKS FOR ORGANISATIONS & EVENTS
DREMABLE REALITIES. REALISABLE DREAMS.
Design traps us in a wonderland loop. “We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us”
Anne-Marie Willis.
Itai takes us on an expedition to the deeper bushes of the Design jungles, entering paths to alternative design perceptions and practices. From design fiction to critical futures, to Re-wilding to moonshooting, questioning our Manufactured Normalcy, offering ways that change the way we all relate, think, and practice future design at the edge of now.
Latest lecture!
WILD. WILDER. WILDEST
FROM DOMESTICATED LIVING, WORKING, PLAYING, TO A REWILDING/FERAL REALITIES AND ALTERNATIVE FUTURE
DARING, OUTSOURCED
THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION AND DESIGN IN A RE-WILDING WORLD
FUTURES DESIGN?
WHAT IS FUTURES THINKING? HOW CAN WE ADOPT THIS KIND OF ESSENTIAL MINDSET, SKILL, AND CARDINAL STRATEGIC ASSET
IN SUCH A VUCA WORLD?
FUTURE OF WORK
IN A RADICAL, FAST-PACE, POST-HUMAN, WORLD,
REBELLIOUS STYLES OF WORK ARE TAKING OVER.
THE WIDENING DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN
IN A CRAZY RE-WILDING WORLD, HOW DESIGN EVOLVES INTO A HOLISTIC DISCIPLINE, INTEGRATING SCIENCE FICTION, FUTURES DESIGN, ART, TECHNOLOGY, NATURE, AND NEUROSCIENCE.
PUBLICATIONS
עיצוב עתידים בעולם מופרא
LECTURE SLIDES
RECENT ARTICLE: DREAMABLE REALITIES, REALISABLE FUTURES
LECTURE SLIDES
Recorded interview 2020 about futuring with changemakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVyVVwsAE_w
חווית לקוח בעולם מופרא
מאמר לאיגוד השיווק הישראלי
יוני 2018
פרק ראשון: המונח עולם מופרא
פרק ראשון מתוך סדרת שידורי העולם המופרא
סדרת פודקאסטים קצרצרים העוסקים בכל פעם במונחים המרכיבים את העולם החדש המופרא בתחומי החברה, תרבות
רשתיות, ארגונים, חדשנות, מותגים, ועוד.
יוצרים: איתי תלמי ונעם מנלה.
בעברית.
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Be good, or be gone.
Welcome to the new normal.
Itai Talmi's latest article on Medium
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Born. The new now and near future. December 2016
Itai Talmi's Presentation. Lecture summary SKMB
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paragraf
Itai Talmi co-founded this magazine, only for one perspective/one paragraph. We offer Short trips into the New Normal
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Born. Intro new normal & futures design. 2016
Itai Talmi's Presentation. Lecture summary HIT
GLOBES 2018 (Hebrew)
אנחנו מזמן חיים בעולם של האח הגדול, ולחברות אני מציע לא לברוח מזה, להפך, להיות האח הגדול הטוב. החברה עירומה, אז אם כבר עירום לפחות אל תהיה מזויף, תהיה אמין
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