Institute desk

The next ten years need a budget, not a slogan.

A futures desk for research programmes — scenarios that name staff, instruments and the bill.

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What we do

Scenarios

Three paths, costs attached.

Lab roadmaps

Space, kit, people.

Board packs

Short enough to be read.

Year-three ugly

Who leaves, what instrument dies if the grant slips. ICR Future writes the unfashionable middle.

Board packs that get read

Short. Risks named. No vapour horizon.

Lab roadmap

Space, kit, people — the bill attached to the slogan.

Who this is for

Institutes

Who are tired of slogan futures.

PIs

Who need space and a technician more than a vision film.

Funders

Who want to see the cliff in year three.

How a typical job runs

  1. 1. Send the last strategy

    We mark it.

  2. 2. Scenarios

    Three paths, costs on each.

  3. 3. Staff the fiction

    Names or we call it fiction.

  4. 4. Board paper

    Ten-year horizon, one-year decisions.

About ICR Future

We write the unfashionable middle: what must be true in year three, who leaves, what breaks if the grant slips.

A futures desk for research programmes — scenarios that name staff, instruments and the bill.

The next ten years need a budget. ICR Future will not deliver a word cloud.

The unofficial org chart and the instrument that is already dying belong in the pack.

10yhorizon
Namedrisks
Novapour

What happens after you write

Send [email protected] the last strategy. ICR Future says whether a futures desk is the right tool.

Questions people actually ask

Do you predict technology?
We scenario staff and kit. Oracles are elsewhere.
Confidential?
Yes. Still honest on the page you keep.
Can you write the grant?
We can stress the plan. The science remains yours.
Workshops?
A working session, not a sticky-note carnival.
How to start?
The last strategy and the real headcount.

Get in touch

Write [email protected] with the situation, a date if you have one, and the best way to reply. We read the box and answer in order.

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