William Chitangala Futurist

Imagining tomorrow's global economies, life and culture through innovation, design research and venture building.

Essays and open research journal

Writing

From gigatrends to innovation: Imagining the future of global economic growth by leveraging venture building, investment and research – with Africa at its core.

Weekenders

Essential longreads and essays on the futures of doing business and
how we live in the world of tomorrow.

Editorial

A curation of theme-driven publications and insights.

The African Book Collector

Sharing recent additions to my personal book collection.

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entrepreneurship

Advancing big pictures as new ventures from ideation to scaling stage.

To achieve their longterm mission, new ventures, products and initiatives need to stay adaptive and open to change while staying strategic. Futures thinking not only informs compelling visions–it provides robust winning aspirations that innovators use to turn into their ideas into hypotheses and discover needs, new markets to ultimately launch and scale groundbreaking products and services.

innovation economics

Decoding disruptive innovations by putting theory to work.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory. Bringing attention to the tenets innovation economic enhances long-term innovation success rates, reduces waste and aligns product strategies with portfolio capabilities.

design research

Leveraging technology and rigor to cultivate deep imagination.

Every project starts with a design challenge that blends human imagination, cultural anthropology and technical intelligence to uncover, envision and conceptualize desirable futures.

futures thinking

Leveraging technology and rigor to cultivate deep imagination.

Every project starts with a design challenge that blends human imagination, cultural anthropology and technical intelligence to uncover, envision and conceptualize desirable futures.

Gigatrends

Harnessing seismic shifts to power innovation portfolios.

Every project starts with a design challenge that blends human imagination, cultural anthropology and technical intelligence to uncover, envision and conceptualize desirable futures.

Trend Research