Navigating Tomorrow’s Business Opportunities is the purpose of QUT’s Centre for Future Enterprise (CFE). Our research aims to shape new and identify emerging opportunities for future leaders and their organisations. Our pursuit of this aim is guided by three missions: co-create impact, shape the global discourse and empower NextGen leaders. This requires a sharp focus of our research attention and for this CFE is structured in four research themes. CFE’s research ensures future enterprises can anticipate and withstand changes (the robust enterprise), can manage, govern and ultimately benefit from the co-existence of humans and machines (the algorithmic enterprise), can explicitly design and capitalise on trusted solutions (the trusted enterprise), and define and use tensions for a thriving future (the paradoxical enterprise). Our Centre has 24 Chief Investigators on all levels of academic seniority, a vibrant group of dedicated postdoctoral fellows and more than 40 research students (PhD and Masters by Research). We work closely with international academic (e.g., MIT, TU Munich, ERCIS members) and corporate partners (e.g., Cisco, SAP, IBM), and regularly welcome and host visitors at our state-of-the-art facilities at Gardens Point campus. Our Adjunct Professors Christoph Buck, Shirley Gregor, Jan Recker, Toby Walsh and Rick Watson provide important, complementary capability and are essential for the ongoing research uplift in our Centre.
In 2025, we launched a new Futures Unlocked series in which on a monthly base academic and professional experts present methods and approaches to develop futures literacy. Moderated writing retreats, our bi-annual HDR colloquium and weekly Open Mic sessions facilitate a collegial community characterised by mutual support and shared research questions.
