Andy’s Recent Content

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 […]

Houston Foresight & UNDP Futures Videos
Houston Foresight and UNDP Futures collaborated on a year-long train-the-trainer project in 2024. As part of the project, we produced eight foresight videos on the topics listed below. JT Mudge and Rachel Feine produced them with Andy Hines, Denise Worrell, and Mina McBride explaining the various introductory foresight topics in three to six minute overviews. […]
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.





