Advantages and application

The Eltville Model enables you to make your future management considerably simpler, yet at the same time more effective:

Create realistic expectations

Many future projects fail as a result of unrealistic and differing expectations of those involved. The Eltville Model not only opens up the potential of systematic future management, it also accommodates the limitations that result from the fact that the future is by nature unforeseeable and complex.

Organize your thoughts

Who doesn’t get confused when thinking about the future? Your thoughts go round in circles in an unpleasant way: What do I think is probable? Which future would I like to create? What is possible? What happens if something completely different happens? How can I create my future? These are the types of questions frequently asked in connection with the future.

The five futures glasses support you with clear and integrated definitions of thought processes and of their clearly connected future management thought objects. You are now in a position to clearly differentiate the various futures and handle them in an experienced way.

Organize your toolbox

The Eltville Model is purposely independent of specific methods. Both the process model and the elements of the results model can be used with many different methods and tools. The Eltville Model makes their application more precise, efficient and effective.

Every stage and sub-stage of the process model, every pair of futures glasses and every element of the results model become a "compartment" of your toolbox. In future you will be able to evaluate the unstructured methods lists from specialized literature in a way that suits you and to use them to your benefit.

Communicate more precisely and with a better overview

The improved organization in your mind and your stomach will enable you to speak and write about the future much more precisely. Experience and enjoy confidently handling the processes, terms and concepts of the future. The holistic approach of the Eltville Model also provides you with a good overview of the things you know and the things you don't know.

Impress the people you deal with by the holistic view and at the same time clarity of your thoughts and words. The five futures glasses and the Eltville Model will be of particular use to you in presentations and speeches about the future.

Help others to communicate better

The Eltville Model provides your company with a uniform language for thinking about and working on the future. Use your mental and communicative clarity and sovereignty to support others in their communication and discussions.

Knowledge of the Eltville Model makes you highly suitable as a moderator. Resolve misunderstandings and conflicts with a few words and examples. Refer to a few pertinent principles to possibly solve yearlong conflicts within a very short time.

You can practically exclude the usual misunderstandings that lead to huge costs and frequently to erroneous developments that endanger your very existence.

Gain more insights from newspapers, books, speeches and films

You know from your own experience how strongly statements about the future can be literally "colored". With the Eltville Model you can understand, assess and use texts, statistics, novels and films about the future much more clearly. You can recognize the important things much better and much more quickly and immediately identify the unimportant things and ignore them with a clear conscience. Your new knowledge of methodology will particularly enable you to better use the "idea cathedrals" of the futures researchers and separate the wheat from the chaff.

Use the Eltville Model as a template for your future projects

The Eltville Model is an ideal template for designing future projects. Save time and effort for developing a thought and communications model about the future. Benefit from the soundness of the Eltville Model achieved in more than a thousand applications.  

Whether you want to generate a study, hold a speech, give a seminar, carry out a workshop or organize and plan a complete strategy project for your company – the seven work steps and the thought objects in the Eltville Model provide you with a proven template.

The thought objects provide you with a structured template for the types of results of your future project. You can communicate the objectives and the expected results to those involved right from the start.

Structure your future strategy and your observation of the environment

We have experienced hundreds of times that event the most professional teams can be completely helpless with regard to a clear structure and methodology for looking into the future.

The future management results model practically provides you with the structure of your future strategy and additionally connects the terms to each other in a semantic network (knowledge network).

Link your future strategy to external developments. You will then be able to easily comprehend the relationships between trends and projects, between scenarios and objectives or surprises and processes at any time.

The precise definitions of the terms and their interconnections enable you to avoid a lot of explanations. You can reason with employees, colleagues, supervisory boards, advisory councils, equity holders and other stakeholders based on a sound model.

Make more of your future

Those who are able to handle the future better than others recognize its threats and, above all, opportunities earlier and as a result are in a better position to use them to their advantage.

In summary, the five futures glasses and the Eltville Model put you in a position to make more of your life, your company, your city, your country and, as a result, more of your future. Use this great opportunity!