Humble Beginnings

Founder and CEO Devadas Krishnadas, started FMG in a 1-room windowless office at Tagore Lane, with a dream to build Singapore’s and Asia’s first successful strategy consultancy.

Securing First Clients

FMG’s CEO was the keynote speaker at several international events. He spoke at Fiji’s 41^st Annual Accountant’s Congress, and the Global Broking Company, Brokerslink’s 5^th Annual Global Conference.

FMG authored a case study on how Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Funds were used for national strategy. This was published by the United States Naval War College.

Seeding Growth

On the international front, FMG conducted a masterclass on strategy at Portugal’s Porto Business School. We also presented on ‘Best Practices in ‘Promoting Budget Management’ at the International Symposium on Excellence in Public Service, jointly organised by the Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

In Singapore, we kick-started the Public Policy Formulation Course, training 300 officials and senior management team from one of Singapore’s economic agencies.

We moved to a new office space at Prudential Tower on Cecil Street.

Strengthening Our Foundation

As we continue to build a strong foundation for future growth, FMG published the book called ‘Foresight Understanding Strategy and Execution’ (FUSE®), our proprietary methodology in strategic planning. This is a framework that ties the essentials of foresighting, in-sighting, strategy formulation, and operational execution into a practical guide for organisations to manage change and transformation.

FMG supported the then- Pioneer Generation Office (PGO) to train about 11,000 Coordinators and Ambassadors on the Singapore’s Government’s Pioneer Generation Package and MediShield Life, a significant and meaningful project to communicate policy impacts to citizens.

In the same year, our CEO was a key analyst on Channel NewsAsia’s live broadcast of Singapore Votes 2015 Nomination and Polling Days.

FMG progressed to establishing our Data Analytics team, with the future view to build a data-driven consulting and training services.

Delivering Value Locally and Overseas

Bringing our competencies and value overseas, we had the opportunity to develop an economic development roadmap for Rwanda titled “The Foresighting of Service Delivery in Secondary Cities Report”.

The roadmap had the vision to make a difference in the economy, society and lives of the people in Rwanda and was subsequently launched with the government leaders, mayors, stakeholders from academic institutions and think-tanks.

We also brought FUSE® to Thailand for the first time, where we conducted a foresight workshop for the working professionals of the Thailand Productivity Institute and hosted a seminar for about 100 Thai Officers at the Royal Thai Army’s Joint Staff College.

FMG completed a pioneering Data Analytics project for the Pioneer Generation Office, developed a White Paper on the Singapore start-up ecosystem and undertook a national-level research study to drive recommendations for policy communications on standards and conformance.

We hosted our first Move-The-Future thought-leadership series for corporate leaders and executives and introduced the executive education series on Data Skills to public sector clients.

Our team continued to grow and we moved to our new, larger and custom-designed office at Paya Lebar Square.

Developing Capabilities through Executive Education

Over the years, we have delivered executive education programmes in Public Policy Formulation and Development and Strategic Decision Making. We added the Data Science Programme into the portfolio to strengthen our value proposition in helping clients develop their capabilities.

With the encouraging response from our Data Science executive education series, FMG conducted the first public run course for the Data Science Programme to help Singapore public sector officers build data analytics capabilities.

We also stepped up our outreach for consulting and executive training projects in the Middle East, East Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Building Future Capacity

To support our expanded suite of training offerings, we custom-built the Future-Moves Academy (FMA), a state-of-the-art facility for executive education and thought-leadership series. The Academy was launched by His Excellency Guillaume Kavaruganda, High Commissioner of the Republic of Rwanda.

FMG also worked with a public sector agency to develop a digital economy masterplan and supported other organisations in public policy related consulting projects.

Having gained traction in our Data Science courses, we became one of the training partners of GovTech for the Public Sector.

Deepening Expertise & Experience

FMG took on more complex projects locally and internationally. This included high-level public sector advisory projects overseas, developing a revised funding computation methodology to enhance an agency’s future programme implementation and leading the strategy visioning workshops with private sector clients in the leisure destination and chemical sectors.

We set up Future-Moves Centre (FMC) for Data Analysis and Skills, a custom-built facility to support our Data Group in research, innovation and facilitating client-facing services in a conducive environment.

In the thought-leadership space, we published Insight Reports on topics such as technological impacts on tourism, risks and opportunities in big tech and Singapore’s economy.

We expanded our suite of courses under Data Science Programme to eight different tracks from the primer to advanced modules. We reached an important milestone as a firm, having trained more than 1,000 public sector officers in data science and analysis from over 25 agencies.

Maintaining Momentum