WFS class: Intro to foresight | Hinesight....for Foresight

I am pleased to be teaching the “Introduction to Foresight” class at this summer’s World Future Society Assembly in San Francisco. It will be on Friday, July 24th from 8:00am-3:30pm. I’m accepting a handoff of the class from Dr. Peter Bishop who taught it capably for many years, as he is now focusing on his Teach the Future foundation.

The goal of the course is to provide an overview to futures concepts, approaches, and resources as employed in business, government, non-profits and higher education, and as taught by the Houston Foresight program. The session will share approaches that futurists use to understand, map, and influence the future. It uses blend of lecture, exercises, discussion, and a sample project in order to provide participants with a hands-on experience that will generate practical and useful take-aways, focusing on:

Concepts: basic concepts used by futurists in understanding the future
Approaches: methods employed by futurists for mapping and influencing the future
Resources: an overview of the foresight field including leading organizations, texts, journals and websites

The course is intended for those new to foresight and those in need a “tune-up.”

Here is the Registration page. Hope to see you there! Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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Curt Siemers says

April 13, 2015 at 2:32 pm

Andy,
Any chance there will be a video of your foresight class in San Francisco that can be purchased? I do not feel rich enough for a flight and a hotel stay.

Curt

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- Andy Hines says
  
  April 13, 2015 at 4:08 pm
  
  hi curt, nice to hear from you!
  
  I believe the WFS offers audio recordings, but that might just be for the general sessions.
  
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  - Andy Hines says
    
    April 13, 2015 at 4:09 pm
    
    …besides, you know the “Intro” stuff!
    
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