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Why Foresight: I Can Think of 316 Reasons? is a brief but handy piece to help you build your case for using foresight. I identified and categorized the benefit statements cited by the three dozen contributors to the Thinking about the Future book. 

With my colleague Terry Collins, a chronicle of The Evolution of Integral Futures published in World Future Review.

A recent piece from World Future Review, How Accurate Are Your Forecasts? More Accurate Than You Might Think, evaluates the accuracy of forecasts my colleagues made in 2025

Two articles won the Emerald Literati Award for Foresight:

In 2003, An Audit for Organizational Futurists

In 2007, The Current State of Scenario Development

A collection of my former Hinesight columns that I did for the journal Foresight that focused on various aspects of applying foresight inside organizations.

What Does Business Need from Futurists?
The Simple Facts of Business Life
Foresight and the Bottom Line
The Foresight Amphibian in the Corporate World
To Managers: How Can Foresight Help You
How Foresight Is Being Positioned in Todays Organizations
Head Start Foresight: How Elephants Can Compete with Cheetahs
Facilitator vs the Expert: Process vs Content
Where Do Your Trends Come From?
Translating Futures Work
The Personal Brand in Futures

 

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  • Within you or Without You: The “System” and the Future of Higher Education May 22, 2013
    I recently gave a talk on the future of higher education for “Technology Learning Conference” at the University of Houston-Downtown. Much of the material came from a project with a foundation exploring the future of higher education to provide context for developing a strategy for achieving its vision of significantly increasing the percentage of adults [... […]
    Andy Hines
  • Foresight success? May 13, 2013
    I did a five-minute “Little Big” at the APF “Play” Gathering on May 3rd in Orlando. I called it “A Framework for Discussing Success.” The ideas emerged from dissertation and I am planning to write a journal article on it, but for now here are the main ideas. I reviewed the foresight literature to see […]
    Andy Hines
  • 16 things that made me go hmmm at APF’s “Play” May 7, 2013
    Thought I’d share some musings from my experience at the APF “Play” gathering. Borrowing from the old C&C Factory song, here are 16 Things That Made Me Go Hmmm.(I’m not attributing as I don’t want to misquote anyone or get them in trouble) LVC for types of simulation: Live players – football practice; Virtual – people […]
    Andy Hines
  • Reflections on the Future of Cities April 29, 2013
    The Houston Futures extended family gathered for a weekend of futures fun on April 12 and 13. While a key purpose is to give students, prospective students, alums, faculty and friends a chance to socialize and network in person, there was also plenty of good discussion about the future. The topic theme on “city making” […]
    Andy Hines
  • Futurist: specialist or generalist? April 22, 2013
    A prospective student raised a question about specialization in foresight in a recent APF listserve conversation. This question is also a frequent one of our Houston Futures grad students. We discussed the question recently in Pro Seminar and did a  ”personal branding” exercise to help us think through how we want to present ourselves to […]
    Andy Hines
  • Future of Knowledge Work April 18, 2013
    I have a new article that I put together with my frequent collaborator Chris Carbone of Innovaro on the Future of Knowledge Work published in Employment Relations Today. It explores how knowledge work is being reshaped by a variety of social and technological forces that together will alter how it is distributed, organized, and performed in […]
    Andy Hines
  • Thinking about the Future….soon to be re-stocked April 16, 2013
    So sorry if you’ve gone to Amazon and seen Thinking about the Future selling for over $2,011.22. Of course, feel free to buy it at that price . Unfortunately, it recently went out of stock and I was not notified. I will re-stock when I get back in Houston on Wednesday and it will be […]
    Andy Hines
  • What do we call it? April 12, 2013
    It’s been great to hear growing interest in developing the field and profession of _______, um, what do you call it? I looked at this question in my dissertation and found it has received intermittent attention over the years (Cornish, 1977; Horton, 1999; Becker, 2002; Schwarz, 2005; Amsteus, 2008; Sardar, 2010; Masini, 2010; Marien, 2010; […]
    Andy Hines
  • Glass Houses April 5, 2013
    A great post by “The Consumerist” on a social-media driven issue on Future of Artificial Dyes in Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Mary Beth Quirk tells the story of how two bloggers triggered an online petition with over 270,000 signatures that led to a meeting between the bloggers and Kraft. Here’s a telling quote from the […]
    Andy Hines
  • A Futurist Elevator Speech April 2, 2013
    Someone asked me recently for my elevator speech on “what is a futurist?” Basically, if someone asks you what a futurists is, what’s your 30-second response. [And we require our students in the futures studies program to do one.] I’ll confess that I am not consistent, and that there are a whole bunch of calculations I […]
    Andy Hines

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