Andy’s Recent Content

The Houston Archetype Technique (HAT) Explained
How do futurists turn research into a clear map of the future? In this video, I put on my HAT. The Houston Archetype Technique is a method that plots archetypes across the Three Horizons framework. It’s a practical tool you can bring to your own work, whether you’re doing strategic planning or exploring a topic […]

Six Steps of Foresight
Okay methods geeks …. this one’s for you! I was asked to contribute a book chapter on the development of our six-step model for doing foresight work, known to the Houston Foresight family as Framework Foresight. It’s important to understand that we are part of a larger foresight ecosystem. Framework Foresight is the Houston version […]

Private Equity: Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss
Not too far into Hettie O’Brien’s The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself, it occurred to me that I was reading a familiar story. The financial sector found a new scheme to take other people’s money and put it into their pockets. The schemes are technically legal, but morally repugnant. I remember […]
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.





