2021 APF “Most Significant Futures Works” Winners

[NOTE: Sorry for the absence, but as you can see Hinesight got a much needed-facelift!]

Back in 2007 I got together with some fellow APFers and we put together the MSFW program. It took a few years to get going, but has been running annually for more than a dozen years now. It’s time for me to pass the baton.I plan to write up some observations on my experience later this year .. promises, promises :-).

I got to enjoy one more program from the Chair’s seat interacting with terrific futures work. We had three winners this year. What a great range of topics: bridging foresight and innovation, opening up foresight to “the people,” and using foresight to make better investment decisions! The listing is below:

Category 1: Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies

Escaping the ‘Faster Horses’ Trap: Bridging Strategic Foresight and Design-Based Innovation, Adam Gordon, Rene Rohrbeck, and Jan Schwarz, Technology Innovation Management Review, article [link] August 2019; Category 1. Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies; Nominating member: Denise Worrell.
Our Futures: By the People, for the People, Jose Ramos, John A Sweeney, Katie Peach, and Laurie Smith, Report, NESTA [link], November 2019. Category 1 Advance the methodology and practice of foreight and futures studies; Nominating member: Anisah Abdullah

Category 2: Analyze a significant future issue

Foresight Investing: A Complete Guide to Finding Your Next Great Trade. Jim Lee. Book [link] 2021. Category 2: Analyze a significant future issue. Nominating member: Andy Hines.

Category 3: Illuminate the future through literary or artistic works

No winners

The core committee of APF members administrating the program for 2021 were Andy Hines (Chair), Jennifer Jarratt, Robin Jourdan, and Sam Miller.

The judges were Tim Balko, Laurent Bontoux, Jim Breaux, Jason Crabtree, David Hamon, Robin Jourdan, David Kalisz, Jan Klakurka, Jim Lee, Chris Mayer, M McBride, Guillermina Baena Paz, Daniel Pesut, Monica Porteanu, Gabriele Rizzo, Laura Schlehuber, Johann Schutte, Sarah Skidmore, and Doris Viljoen.

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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