Centre for Strategic Futures

What Centre for Strategic Futures does

Centre for Strategic Futures (CSF) is a Singapore government agency operating within the Strategy Group of the Prime Minister's Office, nested under the Futures Directorate. Founded in 2009, CSF is a small, dedicated foresight function (approximately 9 employees) whose mission is to build strategic agility within the Singapore public service so ministries and agencies can navigate complex, fast-changing environments. CSF does not operate as a commercial consultancy: it has no externally disclosed pricing, no external customers, and no venture or equity backing — its budget is internal to the Singapore government.

CSF's core products are an integrated suite of foresight IP and convening assets rather than a software platform. The flagship training product is FutureCraft, a suite of foresight courses hosted at the Singapore Civil Service College and delivered to Singapore public officers. CSF also publishes practitioner-facing materials, including 'Thinking About Tomorrow: A Handbook for Strategic Foresight' (Feb 2026) and 'Another ( ) is Possible: A Glossary for Other Worlds' (Jun 2026), as well as shorter think-pieces on its Medium blog. Its convening assets are the biennial Foresight Conference series (most recently 2024, on 'Another World is Possible,' with prior editions in 2019 and 2017) and the annual Futures Conversation (FCx) dialogue format (most recently 2023, on 'Ways of Seeing: Narratives Amidst Uncertainty'). Its go-to-market is internal to the Singapore government: services are delivered directly to public sector entities at no charge, and non-public officers seeking futures thinking training are referred to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy's Executive Programme. CSF's primary customer segment is therefore the Singapore Government Agencies vertical, and its pricing and revenue mechanics are entirely non-commercial.

Name

Centre for Strategic Futures

Legal name

Centre for Strategic Futures (CSF), Strategy Group, Prime Minister's Office

Website

https://csf.gov.sg

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Centre for Strategic Futures (CSF) is a Singapore Prime Minister's Office agency that builds strategic foresight capability across Singapore government ministries through training (FutureCraft), foresight publications, and biennial conferences, serving only Singapore public-sector clients.

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Singapore

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Singapore

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Asia

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Core offering

The Centre for Strategic Futures (CSF) is a Singapore government agency that builds strategic agility in the Singapore public service. It provides foresight training to civil servants via the FutureCraft programme, publishes strategic foresight handbooks and glossaries, and convenes a biennial Foresight Conference to bring together practitioners and thought leaders.

Product overview

Centre for Strategic Futures is a Singapore government agency that serves as a central resource for strategic foresight. The organization operates as a single integrated offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Its core products consist of research publications (handbooks, glossaries) that articulate frameworks for foresight practitioners, a training program called FutureCraft for civil servants, an annual conference series, and a blog for thought leadership. These components work together as a coordinated suite of services aimed at building strategic agility and futures thinking capabilities within the Singapore public service.

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Products and services

• FutureCraft A suite of foresight training courses for public officers in the Singapore government, designed to build strategic foresight capabilities across the civil service.
• Thinking About Tomorrow: A Handbook for Strategic Foresight A strategic foresight handbook articulating CSF's updated understanding of foresight, organised into Foundations, Forms, and Footholds, written mainly for public sector foresight practitioners.
• Another ( ) is Possible: A Glossary for Other Worlds A glossary publication gathering fifteen concepts across three clusters (Another Lens is Possible, Another System is Possible, Another Way of Working is Possible) developed as essays with examples and guiding questions for public servants and policymakers.
• Foresight Conference A biennial foresight conference series bringing together thought leaders to explore emerging trends and future scenarios, including the flagship Foresight Conference and Futures Conversation formats.

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024CSF refers interested parties (non-public officers) to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy's Executive Programme on Futures Thinking and Scenario Planning for external training options.

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Direct peers

• Institute for the Future: Nonprofit futures research organization producing forecasts, scenario work, and foresight training. Direct peer because its core activity — developing foresight methods, training practitioners, and publishing long-horizon frameworks — overlaps directly with CSF's handbooks, FutureCraft programme, and conference series.
• Government Office for Science (UK): UK government unit within the Cabinet Office that provides strategic science and futures advice to ministers. Direct peer because it performs the same public-sector foresight and long-term thinking function as CSF, serving its own national government.
• Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies: Independent futures research institute producing scenario analyses, megatrend reports, and foresight training for governments and corporates. Direct peer because it combines publications, scenario methodology, and training offerings that mirror CSF's integrated suite of services.
• Policy Horizons Canada: Canadian federal foresight function within the Privy Council Office that conducts foresight projects and scenario work for the Government of Canada. Direct peer because it is a centralized, in-government foresight unit analogous to CSF's positioning inside the PMO.
• OECD Strategic Foresight Unit: Multilateral foresight unit at the OECD that helps governments develop strategic foresight capabilities and publishes frameworks, scenarios, and trend analyses. Direct peer because it pursues the same foresight-as-public-service mission and trains government practitioners across jurisdictions.

Broad incumbents

• RAND Corporation: Large US research institution producing long-horizon policy research, scenario analyses, and strategic studies for government clients. Broad incumbent because it covers a much broader research portfolio, but its strategic-foresight publications and government-focused research overlap with CSF's analytical mandate.
• National Intelligence Council (US): US intelligence-community body that produces long-range analytic products including the Global Trends report. Broad incumbent because it produces strategic foresight-style content for government consumers, but its mandate is intelligence-led and globally scoped rather than focused on civil-service capacity building.

Emerging players

• Reos Partners: Global social-change consultancy using scenario planning, multi-stakeholder processes, and foresight to address complex systems challenges for governments and foundations. Emerging player because its project-based consulting model and systems-thinking orientation overlap with CSF's scenario and futures methodologies.
• Foresight Alliance: Network of independent foresight practitioners providing consulting, training, and scenario services to clients including governments. Emerging player because its consultancy-led model and external delivery sit alongside CSF's in-government model, with overlapping methodology and training offerings.
• School of International Futures (SOIF): UK-based foresight practitioner network and consultancy that trains governments and organizations in strategic foresight. Emerging player because its smaller scale, training-heavy model and partnership with LKY School (where CSF refers external officers) places it as a complementary methodology partner rather than a direct in-government competitor.

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