Megavisionary Centre Research Areas
The Megavisionary Centre for Future Worldbuilding®. Global Research Agenda.
This agenda serves as a foundational map for the research, advisory, and strategic innovation initiatives led by the Megavisionary Centre for Future Worldbuilding®. Each research area informs tool creation, enterprise programmes, global dialogues, and thought leadership campaigns across sectors, partnerships and geographic regions.
RESEARCH AREA 1
Enterprise Futurising, Visioneering & Future Worldbuilding®
Objective: To grow our FUTURE AS A SYSTEM® futurising framework and build intuitive tools, and models that democratise futures thinking — empowering organisations to design and integrate long-range visionary strategies that drive exponential growth, deep transformation, and enduring relevance. This includes the creation of immersive, systemic visions of future civilisations and enterprise paradigms through structured sci-fi narrative building and the visual and physical prototyping of future fictions and new realities.
RESEARCH AREA 1 | TOPICS
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Designing systematised approaches to help enterprises envision their future state, identify mega-opportunities, and align strategy with long-term societal and technological shifts — extending enterprise longevity and relevance.
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To generate MEGAVISIONS, we create immersive visual representations and tangible artefacts of the future to support strategic ideation, communication, and innovation.
Through compelling and visionary narratives, we align internal and external stakeholders around transformative goals and future missions — turning abstract strategy into emotionally resonant, actionable vision.
Our work includes prototyping early-stage concepts of future products, services, and ventures envisioned through the visioneering process. These prototypes accelerate disruptive innovation by enabling validation and iteration at early stages.
We also design visionary stories and models of future planetary systems — integrating environment, technology, society, and economics — to inspire global coherence, strategic foresight, and coordinated action.
Our proprietary AI thinkframe, DISRAPTOR AI, integrates artificial intelligence with human creativity and strategic intelligence. This powerful system enhances our capacity to prototype future worlds, generate disruptive concepts, model future systems, and architect transformative ventures and innovations.
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Building scalable structures, roles, and knowledge systems to make foresight and visioneering permanent strategic capabilities.
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Developing structured approaches to envision and prototype future systems that inform enterprise strategy, policymaking, and governance models capable of responding to complex global change and disruption.
RESEARCH AREA INNOVATIONS
Disraptor AI® is Megavisionary’s research project focused on integrating and combining artificial intelligence with human imagination to enhance our enterprise futurising, visioneering, and Future Worldbuilding® capabilities. This initiative empowers us to generate bold MEGAVISIONS and uncover transformative MEGAOPPORTUNITIES — enabling our clients to anticipate change, design future-ready strategies, and lead from the future.
RESEARCH AREA 2
Corporate Culture and Organisational Design
Objective: To redefine the understanding and management of corporate culture by advancing a new strategic framework — the Megavisionary Enterprise Model® — which overcomes the limitations of traditional tools and provides a system-based approach to designing culture as a core driver of enterprise transformation, value creation, and long-term adaptability.
RESEARCH AREA 2 | TOPICS
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Developing diagnostic frameworks that decode enterprise culture and enable leaders to shape it for adaptability, innovation, and future-orientation.
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Creating methods for embedding foresight into the strategic planning process, culture and operational execution to achieve organisational energy and time compression advantage.
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Investigating how corporate culture functions as an integrated system that encodes values, decision-making patterns, and future vision. We explore how culture can be intentionally designed, aligned, and scaled using the Megavisionary Enterprise Model.
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Studying the interplay between organisational structures, incentives, and symbolic systems in shaping collective behaviour. We examine how to architect environments that reinforce future-oriented cultures and accelerate enterprise transformation.
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Developing new metrics and models to assess cultural adaptability, alignment, and resilience across time horizons. We research how cultural design influences an organisation’s ability to evolve, innovate, and lead under conditions of complexity and rapid change.
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Few companies and brands succeed in generating the powerful emotional energy needed to drive continuity, loyalty, and transformation. Our research examines how long-range vision, enterprise innovation, and futuristic narratives serve as catalysts for cultivating deep purpose and emotional resonance — forging unique, unreplicable bonds that energise teams and differentiate brands in ways competitors cannot imitate.
RESEARCH AREA INNOVATIONS
Creation of a new model to define the architecture and culture of an enterprise and diagnose its organisational health.
RESEARCH AREA 3
Disruptive Megaventure and Business Model Innovation and Ecosystems Design
Objective: To develop advanced insights, tools, and methodologies — along with system design and architectural principles — for building disruptive Megaventures, breakthrough business models, and future-oriented innovation ecosystems. This research explores how to architect ventures not as isolated entities, but as integrated, scalable systems of technologies, partners, and platforms capable of reshaping industries, creating entirely new markets, and delivering exponential value for enterprises and society.
RESEARCH AREA 3 | TOPICS
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Investigating how companies can continuously reinvent themselves through disruptive innovation and the creation of future-fit exponential business models.
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Technology platform architecture — including systems, components, modules, interfaces, and data — is a critical yet often overlooked element in the ideation of disruptive business models. At Megavisionary, we view system design not as a separate technical layer but as integral to shaping the very logic of a business model. Most organisations fail to integrate business model innovation with systems architecture, treating them as isolated disciplines. This disconnect weakens the overall value proposition and diminishes the coherence of the user experience. Our research focuses on fusing these two domains to develop powerful, scalable, and visionary business models and ventures — where the system and the strategy co-evolve to unlock exponential value.
RESEARCH AREA INNOVATIONS
Our Founder, Nicolas De Santis, was a co-creator of the seminal book Business Model Generation, which introduced the Business Model Canvas — now the global standard for business model innovation.
RESEARCH AREA 4
Disruptive and exponential technologies affecting humanity’s future
Objective: Explore role of AI in strategic enterprise development and create novel AI tools and techniques for generating megavisionary intelligenc and tech roadmaps for enterprise futurisation, innovation, strategy and visioneering.
RESEARCH AREA 4 | TOPICS
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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming a core force in shaping the trajectory of future societies. Our research explores how AI and algorithmic performance influences governance, enterprise, culture, and human identity — not just as a tool, but as an active agent in redefining systems of value, data management, decision-making, and civilisational development.
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Designing intuitive frameworks and platforms to map emerging technologies and guide long-term strategic planning.
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Tracking disruptive innovations that are reshaping business models and societal structures, and organising them into strategic categories.
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Evaluating the ethical, cultural, economic, and planetary implications of technological advancement across time horizons.
RESEARCH AREA INNOVATIONS
Creation of a TECHNOLOGY VISIONEERING RADAR methodology to classify and monitor technological advancements and their potential use and applications for exponential business modelling.
RESEARCH AREA 5
Generating Value from Global Complexity & Anticipatory Governance
Objective: Map and model the systemic interdependencies that shape global futures to inform decision making structures, strategy, systems design, policymaking, enterprise and innovation strategy.
RESEARCH AREA 5 | TOPICS
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This research agenda explores how human perception of reality and time shapes the formation of complex systems — from enterprises to societies. We examine the role of paradigm formation, mental models, and future narratives in constructing perceived realities and influencing long-term strategic behaviour. By studying the impact of time horizons on generational value transfer, we aim to understand how worldviews evolve, how civilisational knowledge is encoded and passed on, and how organisations can align with deeper temporal patterns to create enduring impact.
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Designing tools and models to help enterprises and governments navigate systemic complexity, interdependence, and accelerating change.
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Exploring the evolution of global systems—ecological, technological, economic, and societal—to inform long-term civilisational planning and strategic foresight.
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Analysing the signals, drivers, and tipping points of transformative global trends to anticipate paradigm shifts in business, policy, and society.
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Mapping future geopolitical scenarios and global risks to support resilient strategy development and anticipatory governance.
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To study the complexity and patterns of historical civilisations — including the causes of collapse — in order to uncover enduring strategies for organisational and societal longevity. This research identifies critical governance mistakes to avoid and informs the design of long-range strategic planning frameworks that shape the evolution of future civilisations. At its core, the work is driven by ethical foresight, sustainability, and the pursuit of resilient, future-ready governance systems for a thriving planetary civilisation.
RESEARCH AREA INNOVATIONS
Creation of GLOGO®, The Global Governance Monitoring System, a new framework to monitor global complexity, identify emerging planetary paradigm shifts and rate decision making and its impact on global sustainability.
RESEARCH AREA 6
Time Dynamics in Reality Formation, Future Strategy Making and Governance
Objective: Develop strategic thinking methods not bound by linear time, enabling organisations and teams to operate ahead of the curve and sustain long term relevance.
RESEARCH AREA 6 | TOPICS
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Investigating how visioneering and futurising practices cultivate mindsets capable of operating beyond linear time—empowering leaders to create strategies that transcend the constraints of the immediate present and navigate across temporal horizons.
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Analysing how temporal perception shapes strategic decision-making and organisational realities, including the cognitive and systemic frameworks leaders use to interpret change and plan for alternative futures.
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Researching how organisations can integrate learnings from the past, insights from the present, and visions of the future into unified, multi-decade strategies that enable long-term continuity, innovation, and resilience.
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Exploring how differing perceptions of time affect ethical judgements—particularly in long-range scenarios where choices made today may have profound moral implications for future generations and planetary systems.
RESEARCH AREA - CURRENT PROJECTS
Creation of Megavisionary’s Time Portal framework for enterprise visioneering.