Andy’s Recent Content
Houston Foresight “Transformation” @ Spring Gathering 2026
About a hundred students, alumni, and friends of the University of Houston Foresight program gathered for this year’s event on all things Transformation on April 10-11. Participants were welcomed to our new home in Sugarland, an amazing brand-new, state-of-the-art facility and picked up their swag, featuring t-shirts, stickers, and socks. The weekend kicked off on […]
Why Guiding Images Are So Important to the Future
We have been trained to be bottom-line focused, can-do, action-oriented, to get on with it, and so on. Even in our Houston Foresight program, we taught a whole summer course on Activation last year focused on how get foresight work acted upon. And we have a draft book manuscript on the topic. BUT, like most […]
Transforming with STILE: A Practical Method for Making Decisions with the Future in Mind
Mina McBride & Andy Hines, April 11, 2026 NOTE: I am reproducing the original LinkedIn post by Mina.. Why STILE? In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations must not only anticipate change but also evaluate how close a proposed innovation is to becoming reality. This is where the STILE framework comes in—a strategic tool designed to assess […]
ABOUT ANDY HINES
Dr. Andy Hines is Associate Professor and 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.
