Futures & Foresight

Important Note If you wish to use the information provided in this page, please reference as follows: Popper, R. (2008) Foresight Methodology, in Georghiou, L., Cassingena, J., Keenan, M., Miles, I…

Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. And they should be again. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened, in an inbox. With modern updates and improvements to these combined disciplines, leaders can sharpen their vision for the future, empowering managers to make informed strategic choices and propelling teams towards superior performance. This domain is true strategic foresight: a disciplined and systematic approach to identify where to play, how to win in the future, and how to ensure organizational resiliency in the face of unforeseen disruption. This article aims to define strategic foresight for leaders, advocating for its integration as a core competency in every organization, regardless of size.

New research on #strategicforesight from the Bavarian Foresight-Institute and Nuremberg Institute of Market Decisions (NIM) can help provide an answer.

Akash Das, a designer turned futures researcher, applies insights and methods from a variety of fields.

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Exploring "How to Future" through the lens of Strategic Foresight...

Here, everything revolves around the question: how do we want to live? In the exhibition, visitors can discover many possible futures; in the Forum, they can participate in open discussions; and, in the Futurium Lab, they can try out their own ideas.

It doesn’t take long into a session of what foresight needs before we get to awareness and credibility. It’s been the case as long as I remember in my direct experience going back to 1988 and I read about it being the case before then. So, we’re still at it. Are we making any progress? I think absolutely yes. Could it go

With ecosystems in crisis, engineers and scientists are teaming up to decipher what animals are saying. Their hope: By truly listening to nature, humans will decide to protect it.

A collection of futurists, political analysts and other prognosticators on the possible Black Swans of the presidential campaign.

Foresight expert Alex Fergnani argues that public intellectuals should be more aware of their biases when envisioning the future.

Seven Stanford HAI faculty and fellows predict the biggest stories for next year in artificial intelligence.

Futures Wheel Analysis First, Second, and Third Order Impacts of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine created on 25 February 2022

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A new Imagining After Capitalism article is out in the Journal of Futures Studies (JOFS). It is the [plant-based] meatiest piece I've put out so far, clocking in at over 6,000 words. It talks about how I tailored our Framework Foresight approach to fit the particular task of searching for and analyzing ideas images about images of After Capitalism. It

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Framework Foresight | Glossary | Tools | Jobs | Videos Futurists use a variety of terms, definitions, concepts, and tools in our work. Listed below are some of the terms and software tools you will learn about and use in classes as well as real world projects.

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DESIGN FUTURES LITERACIES Creative, critical, timely and performative DESIGN FUTURES LITERACIES refers to a transdisciplinary mix of theories and concepts, methods and practices geared to support situated and resilient pedagogies for design students and teachers to engage productively and critically with the given and changing contexts and conditions of Design. This