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    RESILIENCE.

     

    ARE YOU FUTURE-READY?

     

     

     

     

    BORN PARTNERS | FUTURES WORKS

     

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    WE CAN MAKE SURE OF THAT.

     

    WE ARE AGENTS OF PROGRESS. LASTING PROGRESS.

    WE SPECIALISE IN FUTURE READINESS & RESILIENCE PROJECTS.

    WE ARE AN ENTERPRISE & BRAND EVOLUTION FIRM.

     

    WE CREATE REGENERATIVE VALUE AND EQUITY.

    LONG, SHORT, REGENERATIVE, ADAPTIVE, RESILIENT VALUE AND MAXIMUM EQUITY.

    WORKING CLOSELY WITH LEADERS WHO CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW TO CARE ABOUT THEIR FUTURE.

     

    WE ARE ASSIGNED TO DO SPECIAL PROJECTS THAT:

    DISCOVER, DEVELOP AND UTILISE VALUABLE FUTURES

    INTO ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS, AND BRAND SOLUTIONS,

    SECURE YOUR FUTURE, AT THE EDGE OF NOW,

    WE CATALYSE RESILIENCY. CRITICAL TOPIC NOW, AND FROM NOW.

     

    WE CAN MAKE YOUR ENTERPRISE OR BRAND A CATALYST FOR INNOVATION, PROSPERITY AND LONGIVITY.

    TAKING CARE OF YOUR TOMORROW, TODAY.

     

     

     

     

    BORN PARTNERS | FUTURES WORKS

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    WE ENABLE THE POSITIVE EVOLUTION

    OF ENTERPRISES, BUSINESSES, AND BRANDS 

     

     

    WE ARE LIVING IN A TRANSFORMATIVE ERA. TRANSITION TIMES.

    THERE ARE ABUNDANCE OF CHOICES TO MOVE FORWARD AND EVOLVE INTO.

    THERE IS ALSO A CRUCIAL NEED TO DO IT BY SECURING YOUR YOUR BUSINESS LIFE FORCE,

    YOUR POWER SOURCE THAT ENSURES A PROSPEROUS LIFESPAN.

    RESILIENCE IS KEY.  

     

    SO, HOW DO YOU PREPARE TO PROPERLY EVOLVE INTO THE RIGHT FUTURES 

    IT'S EXACTLY THE TIME TO ENSURE LONGER LIFE SPAN.

    BY AUGMENTING IMAGINATIVE ABILITIES.

    BY ANTICIPATING VALUABLE FUTURES WORTH OF ASPIRATION.

    BY ENRICHING STRATEGIC CHOICES LIKE NEVER BEFORE.  

     

    HERE IS WHEN WE CAN ENTER.

    OUR WORK WILL EXPOSE AND PREPARE YOU FOR YOUR

    DESIRABLE, POSSIBLE, AND VIABLE FUTURES.

    WE CAN HELP YOU BENEFIT FROM AN ABUNDANT WORLD

    AND GAIN WIDER, RICHER LENSES AND CAPABILITIES.  

     

    WE DISCOVER EVOLUTION PATHS, MONITISABLE VALUE SOURCES

    MAKING SURE YOUR BRAND AND BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM CREATES AND SUSTAIN TOP VALUE

    CREATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES,

    NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, NEW ECOSYSTEMS

    WE SPOT AND UTILISE LEVERAGE POINTS,

    NEW VALUE SOURCES, EMERGENT FORCES  

     

    WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU PROPERLY EVOLVE, SUCCESSFULLY, SAFELY,

    WE CAN ENRICH SPECTRUM OF CHOICES IN CURRENT & NEW ECOSYSTEMS

    MAKING SURE YOUR CULTURE IS SET FOR TOMORROW

    DEVELOPING ADAPTIVITY PROJECTS TO ENHANCE RESILIENCE CAPABILITIES

     

    WE ARE AN INNOVATION & STRATEGIC FUTURES FIRM,

    SUITED FOR EXPLORING AND CREATING DESIRED 'BECOMINGS' IN A RADICALLY ABUNDANT ERA. 

     

     

    BORN PARTNERS | FUTURES WORK

    LET'S HAVE A COFFEE AND TALK A BIT.
  • WHAT KIND OF FUTURES?

     

    WE FUTURISED THE FEELING OF SATISFACTION OF BANK BRANCHES, WHERE YOUR CLIENTS ASPIRATIONS AND NOT DESPERATIONS, ARE THE FOCUS.

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    ENVISIONING THE FUTURE HOSTEL MODEL THAT FLOWS WITH GENERATION Z

    & DIGITAL NOMADS

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    PROTOTYPING THE MULTI-SENSORIAL EXPERIENCE IN THE FUTURISTIC WELLBEING CENTER

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    DEVELOPING A RADICAL MODEL OF WHOLE 'LIVING SERVICES' THAT SHIFTS RESIDENTIAL LIVING TO THE FUTURE

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    DEVELOPING A FUTURE MOBILE TRAINING TOOL THAT UNDERSTAND AND ASSISTS IN REAL TIME TO YOUR IMMEDIATE MANAGERIAL NEEDS.

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    SENSING WIDER HUMAN CONTEXTS OF THE FUTURE SHOPPING MALL

    We conducted a human-centred discovery journey into the FUTURE OF MALLS where we investigated and explored what might become of 'Consumer engagement centers' in various dimension of living in the possible future city.

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    DREAMABLE REALITIES, REALISABLE DREAMS.

    A SERIES OF LECTURES INVESTIGATING THE WIDENING FUTURES OF DESIGN, FROM HUMAN-CENTRED TO HUMANITY-CENTRED IN A RE-WILDING SOCIETY.

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  • What we do

     

    Our Mission

    Strategically imagineering viable tomorrows, developing practical options and choices to help people, enterprises and brands 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 GROWING

    FUTURES COMMUNITY

     

    We passionately serve private, public, social organisations, and entrepreneurs, worldwide.

    PARTIAL CLIENT LIST:

     

    ERICH FROMM INSTITUTE

    YAIR YONA

    LENTILS

    TEMPUS MOTU GROUP

    OPEN BRAND AGENCY

    THNK School for Creative Leadership

    Amsterdam Municipality

    Vodafone

    Carnival cruise lines

    Holmes Place

    Metro

    Monday

    World brand congress

    Maccabi Healthcare

    HR Israel

    Teachers Association

    Kapsoola brand agency

    Zeder-Yariv agency

    PAMINA Holdings

    Markets.com

     

    Orange

    C2

    GAP

    VIM

    Keystone

    PROSO

    MEWE

    PERES center for peace

    H.I.T Holon College

    SKMB College

    Shenkar College

    Coleman College

    ZEROG

    CHATEAUTECH

     

    WORKING ARENAS

    RETAIL
    HOSPITALITY
    FOOD & BEVERAGE
    FINANCIAL
    RESIDENTIAL
    CITIES
    COUNTRIES
    CLUSTERS
    HEALTHCARE
    EDUCATION
    WELLBEING
    ENTERTAINMENT
    FASHION
    ART INSTITUTIONS
    DESIGN INSTITUTIONS
    DESIGN AGENCIES
    BRAND AGENCIES
    MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCIES
    SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS/STARTUPS
    NGO'S
    HOMELAND SECURITY
    AVIATION
    ETHICAL PREMIUM BRANDS
    PRIVATE EQUITY ENTREPRENEURS

    CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

    "The main value for me was the ability to widen

    my point of view and to look at the big picture

    then down to every delicate detail.

    Itai have opened for us new windows into our future,

    enriched our knowledge spectrum which enabled us

    to understand deeper what we are doing,

    how we should do it, and how to adapt our organisation

    and business for the future.

    Last but not least, the big added value was instilling confidence

    and determination that what we are doing is right and relevant.”

     

    Yaron Biderman

    Co-founder & VP PROSO

    A leading organizational e-training platform

     

     

     

    "Itai is one of the few that I have met who can bring real innovation into the business thinking process. He is capable to smartly balance the human touch with the hard figures. Young and contemporary mind ready to provide true value."

     

    Sergio Klecker

    Country manager Vitaldent Group, Global Argonauts

     

     

     

    "Itai is a brilliant, self-driven entrepreneur, with exceptional way to look at things differently. Common things are brought to the table with different perspectives. Itai has a vision. He pushes forward toward accomplishing goals, in a clear and comprehensive manner. Alongside with his kind personality – it’s a privilege to get acknowledged with this talented guy."

     

    Nir Melamud

    Partner, Head of Digital Department at Bakara

    Media Management, Audit & Planning

     

     

     

    BORN PARTNERS | FUTURE WORKS

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  • OUR 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 Enterprise & Brand Evolution

    1. Costume research, Sense-making, and Futures exploratory reports for desired markets, ecosystems, new services, future customer segments, corporate culture.

    2. Master/context 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.

    CURIOSITY

    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 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, innovation & strategy consultant, experimentalist, entrepreneur, lecturer, mentor.

     

    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.

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    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!

    itai@bornpartners.co

    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.

    FOR BOOKING A LECTURE

     

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  • PUBLICATIONS

    עיצוב עתידים בעולם מופרא

    LECTURE SLIDES

    https://www.slideshare.net/ItaiTalmi1/a-gonzo-expedition-to-futures-thinking-design-in-a-rewilding-world-lecture-2020

    RECENT ARTICLE: DREAMABLE REALITIES, REALISABLE FUTURES 

    LECTURE SLIDES

    https://www.flipsnack.com/IMCIMagazine/imci-magazine-september-october-2021.html

    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

    https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001245250

    BORN PARTNERS | FUTURE WORKS

    GONZO STYLE EXPEDITION INTO REWILDING FUTURES

    LECTURE SLIDES

    https://www.slideshare.net/ItaiTalmi1/a-gonzo-expedition-to-futures-thinking-design-in-a-rewilding-world-lecture-2020

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