Framework Foresight Video | Hinesight....for Foresight

A key mission of Houston Foresight is to introduce people to spread the use of “high-quality” foresight. In order to do that we need to bring more people into the fold and introduce them to the future. One of the ways we’ve been doing this is through videos. Our latest video explains our core “Framework Foresight” approach to exploring the future. It was masterfully produced by alum Kimberly Daniels. It comes in at just under four minutes.

Framework Foresight, emerged from piecemeal roots in the 1990s to an established method around 2013. Since then, it has evolved from primarily a teaching tool to a project methodology in its own right. (We use it in all our project work with clients). The method is a systematic way to develop a “start-to-finish” future view of a domain or topic of interest, to explore its implications, and develop proposed responses.

Here’s the article version. Enjoy! — Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is 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.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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Mina McBride says

March 7, 2020 at 1:27 am

Looking good, Andy. Great work, Kimberly (It is finished!). Thanks for the post as it reminded me that the video was available as a quick review that is perfect for someone I met today interested in our work.

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