Andy’s Recent Content
Inside the Futurist’s Mind: Understanding STEEP
Most of our project work as futurists is studying a particular domain for a client: forestry, healthcare, communities, or my favorite After Capitalism. But what about what’s happening around or outside of the domain? Enter STEEP. STEEP is an acronym futurists use to help us organize our “big picture” thinking outside of our project topic. […]
Loopy Change and The Matrix
The HAT technique at UH Foresight suggests that transformation emerges from one of two pathways: Collapse (more abrupt) or New Equilibrium (more gradual). We’ve been talking about the Collapse pathway to After Capitalism, so let’s turn our attention to the gradual loopy New Equilibrium path. In a previous post I suggested that the gradual approach […]
The Value of a Foresight Education
Getting ready to kick off my 12th year as the leader of the University of Houston Graduate Program in Foresight. I spent 10 years before that as a part-time Adjunct Faculty while I was in the field as a practitioner, both as a consulting and organizational futurist (at Kellogg’s and Dow). So I thought a […]
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.
