Foresight Market Survey | Hinesight....for Foresight

Most of you know that the market for foresight is still pretty murky. As part of my work on the APF “Professionalization” Task Force, we put together a market survey to help us get a handle on who’s using foresight and who isn’t and why. We tried to do it in a way that would attract a large number of responses by linking participant responses to one of four degrees of futture-readiness. Participants basically learn how future-ready their organization is.

So, can you please help me distribute this survey, by sharing it with any LinkedIn Groups, networks, associations, or organizations. Keep in mind that our primary interest is in non-users of formal foresight, but it is fine to get some info from users as well (and you can take it, too). And please encourage anyone who does take the survey to share it with other folks or groups as well. You might use the text below, but customize as you see fit. Thanks!
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Business Mindset Survey: How Future-Ready is your organization?

The Association of Professional Futurists wants to learn more about how organizations are dealing with the future. We developed a 10-minute survey that sorts responses into four degrees of “future-readiness.” Is your organization (a) winging it (b) taking baby steps (c) on the road, or (d) at the head of the class? By taking this survey, you’ll learn where your organization stands, and provide us with useful information about the market for foresight. The link to the survey is here:https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2294744/APF-Quant-v3

Thanks!
Association of Professional Futurists
APF.org
Questions: ahines@uh.edu
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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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