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FUTURISTS SPEAK!
A few weeks ago, I was asked to keynote the morning of a week-long training a for large healthcare insurance provider. They had already spent time [...]
Finding the Fringe Takes Time
Recently I posted about snowball scanning as a way to find the fringe in horizon scanning. As I thought more about, I realized a big [...]
Snowball Scanning
We have been doing a lot of thinking and work on horizon scanning at Houston Foresight. We revised our process several years back captured in [...]
Laura Schlehuber joins Houston Foresight
You know her, you love her! Houston Foresight alum and Certificate Instructor Laura Schlehuber has joined the Houston Foresight program to direct our growing research [...]
Alum Maria Romero joins KnowledgeWorks
Alum Maria Romero is joining the Strategic Foresight team at KnowledgeWorks as a Senior Manager. Maria is a professional futurist with expertise in strategic foresight, [...]
NEW 2020 Dates for the Foresight Certificate Seminar
Over the past year we have experienced extraordinary growth in interest in the UH Strategic Foresight Certificate Program. This year our April session sold out [...]
Using Causal Layered Analysis to Engage Emerging Leaders in Thinking About Houston’s Future
Moving towards greater collaboration between the Houston Foresight program and Center for Houston’s Future (CHF), Masters graduate alum Kimberly Daniels facilitated an afternoon foresight exercise [...]
Hannah Kim Wins 2019 Student Recognition Program
It is a great pleasure to announce that just-graduated Houston Foresight Master's student Hannah Kim won the Master's category for the year's APF Student Recognition [...]
Exploring the Built Environment for CII
Dr. Andy Hines, assistant professor and coordinator of the foresight graduate program led a team to explore “Future of Built Environment” over the fall semester. [...]
Houston Foresight Spring 2019 Newsletter
As we close out the Spring 2019 semester, it's a good time to reflect on some of the semester's highlights ,as they were captured in [...]
Student in the News: Mohammed Al Muhairi
A recent news story in Dubai featured the headline: Mohammed Al Muhairi prepares for the Master's journey with passion! Dubai police is sending the first [...]
2019 Spring Gathering Introduces the Future
Since we spend so much time and effort explaining what foresight is to people new to it, we thought it would be useful to spend a day reviewing our various approaches and strategies for doing so.