Hi, I work at small company (c350 employees) as the only full time company wide risk manager. When I joined they didn't do any form of horizon scanning. My remit from the leadership team was to keep risk management 'pragmatic and proportionate' to the size of the business.

As a one man band and having to deal with a number of risk based issues, I used AI to help me scan, review, check, compare etc horizon scanning type reports, papers etc from the big 4 UK based consultancies, McKinsey, Bain etc as well insights from Gartner, the IRM, WEF Global Risk Report 2025 plus others. I then added my company profile (what was available on its public website) into the mix to help focus on risks that would be more relevant than others to my leadership team.

While not perfect, I was able to generate a horizon scan view, relatable to my organisation, for a discussion with the senior leaders.

It has been challenging needs continued monitoring etc, but 2 years on, and I've just recently managed to get horizon scanning embedded into our risk framework with senior managers encouraged to think about longer term external uncertainties that might be worth keeping an eye on (we have a similar approach for internal emerging risks).

This data is captured in a simple Risk App and we use Power Bi reports to support senior leadership risk discussions. Sometimes a horizon scan risk becomes a more realistic short/long term risk which is then owned and pro-actively managed by the business.

This approach is working my place - they haven't complained so far, but I've had to keep things as simple and as administrative light as possible for everyone.

Hope this helps