ConsumerShift identifies the changing consumer values and external trends that are remaking the consumer landscape. Five …
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Five Key Changes in the Future Consumer Landscape: #4 Self-Expression
ConsumerShift identifies the changing consumer values and external trends that are remaking the consumer landscape. Five …
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Changing Values and “Enoughness” Suggest Economic Stimulus Won’t Work
Economic stimulus is in the news a lot. A recent New York Times piece noted that: "Since the economy began to falter in …
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Five Key Changes in the Future Consumer Landscape 3: Anti-Consumerism
ConsumerShift identifies the changing consumer values and external trends that are remaking the consumer landscape. Five …
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Five Key Changes in the Future Consumer Landscape 2: Connection
ConsumerShift identifies the changing consumer values and external trends that are remaking the consumer landscape. Five …
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A CASE for change: Authenticity
A “rethink” of values is underway and described in ConsumerShift. At the core of the rethink are shifts toward …
Lone Star College High Tech Conference Explores the Future of Work
It’s been my experience (and others, I’m sure) that community colleges are often at the leading edge of change. They …
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The Great Recession as an enabler of changing values
Typically recessions are bad news for changes of any type. They tend to induce a degree of paralysis--a hunker down, cut …
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Needs values and worldviews
ConsumerShift takes the point of view that values changes are the single best indicator for gaining insight into the …
Entering Season 8 of Teaching about the Future
I've had the good fortune of entering my eighth year teaching in the UH Futures Studies program. It was a goal of mine …
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The best values are context appropriate
One of the dangers of a developmental approach is that it appears hierarchical and implies that the “top” is the best. A …
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Foresight as a field
I’ve noted my plunge into the foresight literature in support of my topic “Integrating Forsight into Organizations.” …
Distinguishing Core Values
Core values are those most important to us. To refresh, ConsumerShift defines values as “An individual view about what …
Where do our values come from?
We ultimately choose our values…but there are lots of influences trying to guide us to the “correct” values. As …
Call to Foresight Practitioners: Publish, Please!
Part of my task in doing my dissertation on Integrating Foresight into Organizations for Leeds Metropolitan …
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The Emergence of Integral Values
While the mainstreaming of postmodern values is the headline of ConsumerShift, the emergence of integral values is …
From Modern to Postmodern Values
We talked about how traditional values are not going away in the postmodern world and remain alive and well. Modern …
Why Change our Values?
Because, to put it bluntly, “stuff happens,” and our current value system, for one reason or another, is judged to be …
Fitting Traditional Values into the Postmodern Consumer Landscape
A central assumption of ConsumerShift is that postmodern values are emerging as the primary shaping values of the …
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Introducing Four Types of Values for the Future
Having defined values in my last post, now is the time to describe the types of values shaping the future. I will cover …
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Defining Values in Light of Consumer Understanding
Values can be a controversial topic. In the political arena, the parties battle over who has the high ground on the …
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Introducing Integral Futures….Live
I posted a a couple of clips introducing Integral Futures (part 1 and part 2, about 2o minutes total) taken from the UH …
More Fun with Evaluating Forecasts
I have written and posted on how forecasting is generally more accurate than at least the media would have you believe …
A Framework for Thinking about the Future
Andy Hines & Peter Bishop, Thinking about the Future, 2007. One of the more useful frameworks we've adopted at …
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The Foresight Tool Kit: Causal Layered Analysis
Thought it would be interesting to share an example of an application of one of the newer futures methodologies, Causal …
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Vision without Discipline Is a Daydream
Do you recognize this quote attributed to the late Alexander Haig? I wouldn’t have expected to be attracted to his …
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Futurists: Insiders or Court Jesters?
I'm thoroughly enjoying the research into my dissertation on "Integrating Foresight into Organizations" with Jeff Gold …
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Nominating Most Important Futures Works
The Association of Professional Futurists is about to re-launch it's Most Important Futures Works campaign. Members are …
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Looking Back on the Coming Values Transformation
As a futurist in training in the late 1980s, I came across what could be called a “transformation literature” centered …
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More Energy Futures
I shouldn't be surprised that the future of energy is a popular topic here in Houston. Just wanted to thank my friends …