As many readers here likely know, I did my dissertation on the experience and possibilities of organizational futurists. …
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Values and Design Thinking
The increasing partnership between foresight and design over the last several years has nudged more and more futurists …
Three Horizons of Work
I had the pleasure of participating on a panel exploring the future of work at the GAO for IFPTE Local 1921annual union …
Thinking about futurists and jobs
Jobs have been on my mind lately. I’ve been looking through job descriptions as part of my work on the APF …
Reflecting on Past APF Gatherings
This year’s Gathering, the Learning Remix, curated by Derek Woodgate with the assistance of the fabulous Maggie, and …
Do not be a “nothing new here” futurist
One of the most vexing comments I hear from fellow listeners to a talk is that there was “nothing new here,” …
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Lords of Foresight?
I recently finished reading Walter Keichel’s The Lords of Strategy on the recommendation of Peter Bishop. And like all …
Doing foresight well: cooks and chefs
Was musing with a professional futurist colleague about the state of the foresight field. We observed how the market for …
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Media, the Singularity, and Futurists
I did a brief commentary on a recent article feature “futurist and Google exec Ray Kurzweil’s” latest comments around …
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The push and pull of the future
We reviewed Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars in Alternative Perspectives class last night. The first pillar, mapping, …
The New Breadwinners: Future of Women in the Workforce
https://youtu.be/jt-6rCtZpHk One reason for dramatic changes in the future of the work is the changing role …
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Careful in mixing ideology and values
My first reaction to a Sunday NY Times piece asked “Are Western Values Losing their Sway?” was to ask whether the …
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Good ideas on how good ideas spread
I had the good fortune to be following Alex “Sandy” Pentland at the APQC Knowledge Management Conference last May. I was …
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Are we too client focused?
I have been emphasizing the need for futurists and foresight to better deliver on client needs and expectations for the …
APF Most Significant Futures Works Awards 2015
I have been involved with the APF Most Significant Futures Works awards (MSFW) program since we started it in 2007 and …
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The value of a foresight education
I recently posted some findings on the Houston Foresight blog from an alumni survey. The survey was undertaken as a …
Houston Foresight Students Win APF Recognition Awards
I am so proud to share that Houston Foresight students won first, second, and third place of the Individual Graduate …
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Five Books on the Future
A recent APF listserv chat pointed out that member Andrew Curry had been profiled on Five Books -- a terrific interview …
Sharing: Keep the good, leave the hype
It’s kind of fun to reflect on the meme hype cycle -- like Gartner’s Hype Hycle but for ideas rather than technologies. …
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Next Economy: Cutting Some Slack on Sharing
A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names and then added five more that have been suggested for the next economy. …
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2045: What would you put in a time capsule?
So what would you put in a time capsule today to be dug up 30 years from now? That question framed a thirty minute …
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Expert and Participatory Foresight
Last we talked about three futurist roles. Along those lines are the different ways that we go about performing those …
Futurist Roles: Letting Go, Translating, and Transforming
As a futurist, it’s always helpful to know what’s expected of you…and what you want to do. BTW, I think they deserve …
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The End of Work as We Know It
....and I feel fine (if I have the old REM song right). In simpler words, the changes ahead for work could be really …
Exploratory and decision scenarios
Another theme that’s been popping up lately in my work is Pierre Wack’s original notion suggested that exploratory …
Scenario confusions
Been having some interesting discussions about scenarios lately and think we might have a few blog posts brewing here. …
The New Framework Foresight Graphic
It’s been great to have a little design help in order to better communicate what we do at the Houston Foresight program. …
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Sudden Impact the Key to Wildcards?
One more entry in the wildcard series (for now, at least). In the last piece we raised the point about wildcards not …
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Wilcard is a relative term
A truly brilliant article title (and article) from Elina Hiltunen, “Was It a Wild Card or Just Our Blindness to Gradual …
Wildcards, surprises, and disruptions…oh my!
A couple of weeks ago in World Futures, we had a class on wildcards. Yesterday, I just had a client conversation about …
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