Our design expert on the Houston Foresight team, student Maria Romero, is at it again. After doing a beautiful job with …
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Personal Futures Planning
Our ProSeminar class had a visit last week from a dozen Norwegian students studying under futurist Derek Woodate. We did …
Transformative scenario planning
I finally got to Transformative Scenario Planning by Adam Kahane. It’s one of those books that stayed too long in my …
The Aspirational Archetype
I’ve written previously about the scenario archetype technique. A few years ago, In World Futures class, we started …
Second edition of Thinking about the Future
An updated second edition of Thinking about the Future is now available on Amazon. The foreseeable depletion of the …
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An organizational futurist role for integrating foresight into corporations
As many readers here likely know, I did my dissertation on the experience and possibilities of organizational futurists. …
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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 …
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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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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Expert and Participatory Foresight
Last we talked about three futurist roles. Along those lines are the different ways that we go about performing those …
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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Real options, scenarios, & sensemaking
Read an interesting piece on combining scenario planning and real options: “Making sense of future uncertainties using …
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APF Most Significant Futures Works Program 2015
One of my favorite things I do as a futurist is to help coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. It …
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Some thoughts on action learning
Action learning (and its family members) are an approach to solving complex problems that starts with the premise that …
Fun with scenario archetypes
I have been messing around with and shared some actual work on using scenario archetypes. Let me begin with proper …
Places to Intervene in Higher Education
Had a fascinating discussion last night with a team advising Lumina Foundation on its compelling and ambitious Goal 2025 …
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Thinking about Predictive Analytics
My interest in predictive analytics was first piqued by a presentation by Garry Golden at the 2008 APF Gathering on Big …
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“Teaching about the Future” wins the APF Most Significant Futures Works Award
Teaching about the Future was awarded first prize in the “methodology and practice” category in this year’s Association …
Musings on links between Theory U and CLA
I was reviewing Otto Scharmer's "Leading from the Emerging Future" this weekend, prepping for Alternative Perspectives …
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An organizational futurist role for integrating foresight into corporations
I'm pleased to note that my piece on the organizational futurist role I put together with colleague Jeff Gold has been …
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Thinking about Wildcards
It was time for “Wildcards” this week in World Futures class. I have a bunch of thoughts jostling around in my head, and …
“Moments of Impact” Makes an Impact
It’s always such fun to see someone you know come out with a book that you really like! Indeed, I recently received a …
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Revisiting “Thinking about the Future”
I'm real grateful to John Smart of FERN for helping me get Thinking about the Future into electronic format and getting …
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APF Most Significant Futures Work Nomination: Aspirational Futures
I am very pleased to have nominated “Aspirational Futures” by Clem Bezold for an APF Most Significant Futures Work …
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APF Most Significant Futures Work Nomination: Think Like a Futurist
I am very pleased to have nominated “Think Like a Futurist” by Cecily Sommers for an APF Most Significant Futures Work …
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