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What's happening?
Change is driven by emerging trends, weak signals and disruptions across environmental, technological, economic, social and geopolitical domains.
We must continuously detect and interpret these changes to anticipate risks, seize opportunities and adapt strategies effectively.
Drivers of change
Below we explore the 15 drivers of change, with each driver having four components:
What are we seeing?
An overview of the driver and its current trajectory.
What can we expect?
How the driver could develop in the future based on current trajectory and expectations.
What might this mean for sport and recreation?
An outline of some of the main implications for the sport and recreation sector.
What questions should we be asking ourselves today?
Exploring our possible response today to improve our future resilience.
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Download the full report including 4 alternative future scenarios.
Environmental scans
Scanning explores all trends, issues, developments and events that may impact the future. This includes mega trends and trends where history can assist to forecast possible future impact, and emerging issues or weak signals - issues that have not been influential or important in the past, but that might be influential in the future.
Sport NZ has produced 12 environmental scans that explore likely drivers of change, and the possible implications of these drivers.
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