This first episode is to introduce concepts of Drivers, Trends, and Mega-trends. These are essential components of Futures Thinking as they have a strong influence on the type of plausible Future being explored.

In this 2nd episode of 1 Minute Futures Methods we build on the knowledge of Drivers and Trends by describing the use of PESTLE analysis and gaining finer detail research by the use of Relevance Trees. This is called Driver Mapping.