Foresight Student Keith Willeford wins First Place Critical Issues in Energy
Giant congratulations goes out to current foresight student Keith Willeford [...]
What is Foresight
Foresight collects information from the past and present and uses it to create multiple future scenarios that are likely to occur through causality, logic, and rational creativity. Foresight differs from prediction, which uses magical powers inaccessible to ordinary people to ‘precise blow’ a single future.
Strategic Planning with a Long View Lens
If there are so many businesses changing direction does that mean formal strategic plans are impractical?
Describing a futurist
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.
How the technium helped me to think critically about technology
One of the most significant ideas that Kelly proposes is that tools (technologies) never die. “Technologies are idea based, and culture is their memory.”
Life, Liberty, and Foresight: The Ultimate Trifecta
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.