RT-360 identified 16 drivers of change, based on the following definitions of what a driver is:
- A driver is a key theme shaping the future of a topic.
- A driver is a thematic cluster of related changes identified by the research and horizon scanning as driving or shaping significant change in the domain.
- A driver encompasses cross-cutting changes that should be central considerations during strategy development.
For this project, the RT-360 researchers organized the drivers into three types, aligned to match the three plausible futures shown in the figure.