Enterprise IT leaders would be making a mistake if they constructed a single hypothesis about the future and then built their departments around it. That sort of planning may make sense during more stable times, but it makes no sense now, when the future is so uncertain. Instead, what IT leaders need is a posture of futures-readiness, allowing them to adjust to what happens next in the evolving geopolitical, economic, regulatory and technical realms. Envisioning possible futures, their demands on IT and novel ways to meet those requirements will help IT leaders identify strategies they can put in place three or four years from now.