After Capitalism Concepts | Hinesight....for Foresight

The After Capitalism research started by collecting interesting “new or next economy” concepts. They’ve been analyzed, clustered, and re-grouped a few times. To the right is the pretty close to done version, as it’s time to move on the next phase of the project: creating the futures using the archetype approach (more on that later). The main buckets of concepts:

Horizon 3 “Transformation” Visions. The transformation archetype involves changing the rules of the game and a new system emerging. The visions attempt to characterize a new economic system or era at the highest level — they seek to explain a new socio-economic order.
Horizon 2 “New Equilibrium” Transitions. The new equilibrium archetype involves a challenge to the existing system in which the response is to compromise but keep the essential structure intact. The transitions explain emerging variations of capitalism that are still part of existing capitalism with some new elements, and are bridges to the visions.

Some of the key updates since the last version:

Introduced three horizons framework and sorting of concepts into:
- H3 visions
- H2 transitions
- H1 signals (not shown here)
Added, pruned or combined concepts to attempt to keep each distinctive — at one point the list hit 57!
Added a subset of sustainability transition concepts – several concepts that appeared to be transformational visions were actually suggestions on how to make capitalism more sustainable, which fits better as a transition concept.

— 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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Thomas Tunstall says

July 26, 2018 at 10:18 am

Hi Andy:

Have enjoyed reading your articles on futures studies. In researching the disconnect between neoclassical economics and ecosystems, I decided to take a run a fictionalizing a scenario that might cause more people to rethink western lifestyles and currently unsustainable economic policy. We’ll see.

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Tom

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