Strategic Planning with a Long View Lens
If there are so many businesses changing direction does that mean formal strategic plans are impractical?
If there are so many businesses changing direction does that mean formal strategic plans are impractical?
Futurists do far more than horizon scanning or trend analysis or scenario planning. They listen and understand, they analyze and formulate, and then they make the case to move forward.
Today we present our first video where Laura Schlehuber interviews a few futurists and gets their go-to explanations for “what is foresight?”.
Throughout my career, one thing I’ve realized is sometimes you just need to raise your hand and jump in with both feet.
I have been asking my professors how foresight has been kept such a secret for eight-plus decades and why it is so often approached in isolation of other closely related disciplines.
We all have that story. You know the one. How did you become a futurist? I think it is one of the first questions we are asked when we begin the Houston Foresight program in Intro. The answers are as varied as the diversity of the people who claim the title of futurist.