One of my favorite things to do each year is to coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. This year …
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Updating Framework Foresight with Six APF Competencies
We at Houston Foresight are very excited by the publication of APF’s Competency Model. As teachers of Foresight, we need …
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Reflecting on APF’s 15th Birthday at Seattle Gathering
A survey of 300 futurists back in 2000 found that 54% agreed on the need for a professional association…which means that …
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Foresight Competency Model published in WFR
What do futurists need to know how to do? The APF’s Foresight Competency answers that in a new article: Building …
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Good Futures Work
The Houston Foresight Program is having its annual Spring Gathering this weekend on the theme of “Good Futures Work.” I …
Geeking out on Three Horizons
Just finished Bill Sharpe’s Three Horizons: The Patterning of Hope, 2013. I often refer to a slide below as my “desert …
Advancing Corporate Foresight
I am very pleased to have nominated “Corporate Foresight” by Rene Rohrbeck and his colleagues for an APF Most …
Intuition in Futures Work
We come to the week in Alternative Perspectives class where we see how far one’s embrace of alternative extends. We call …
A Foresight Competency Model
It was great to be able to brief the new Foresight Competency Model at the recent APF Global Futures Festival. To listen …
2016 APF Most Significant Futures Works Winners
One of my favorite things to do each year is to coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. Each year, …
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Your ideal keynote….
…to new audiences to get them interested in using futurists and foresight If we think about the market for futurists, …
Help Disseminate Foresight Market Survey
Most of you know that the market for foresight is still pretty murky. As part of my work on the APF …
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Historians & Futurists: More Alike than Not
A few weeks ago, we explored a few thoughts around the history of the foresight field. APF colleague Ruben Nelson …
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Observations from tracking mentions of futurists in media
The Houston Foresight program initiated a project to track, collect and analyze mentions of futurists in the media back …
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Roots of foresight: When (and how) do you say it started?
We had a great discussion last week at APF on the origins of the foresight field. I was not sure whether to even start …
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The Aspirational Archetype
I’ve written previously about the scenario archetype technique. A few years ago, In World Futures class, we started …
Shifts in teaching the future
Teaching should not stand still of course, but it is part of an academic mission is to stay true to what is the core of …
Values and Design Thinking
The increasing partnership between foresight and design over the last several years has nudged more and more futurists …
Thinking about futurists and jobs
Jobs have been on my mind lately. I’ve been looking through job descriptions as part of my work on the APF …
Reflecting on Past APF Gatherings
This year’s Gathering, the Learning Remix, curated by Derek Woodgate with the assistance of the fabulous Maggie, and …
The value of a foresight education
I recently posted some findings on the Houston Foresight blog from an alumni survey. The survey was undertaken as a …
Houston Foresight Students Win APF Recognition Awards
I am so proud to share that Houston Foresight students won first, second, and third place of the Individual Graduate …
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Five Books on the Future
A recent APF listserv chat pointed out that member Andrew Curry had been profiled on Five Books -- a terrific interview …
Next Economy: Cutting Some Slack on Sharing
A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names and then added five more that have been suggested for the next economy. …
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Who wants to play with us?
The APF Professionalization Task Force has moved from planning to action and the first action is developing a competency …
Steps Toward Professionalizing Foresight
Aren’t futurists already professionals? Well, sure, depending on how strictly one defines a professional. The …
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APF Most Significant Futures Works Program 2015
One of my favorite things I do as a futurist is to help coordinate the APF’s Most Significant Futures Works program. It …
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Need to spread an idea? Make it Contagious
Just finished Jonah Berger’s Contagious: Why Things Catch On, which was first brought to my attention by Houston …
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“Teaching about the Future” wins the APF Most Significant Futures Works Award
Teaching about the Future was awarded first prize in the “methodology and practice” category in this year’s Association …
Recapping Houston Foresight at WFS 2014
The Houston Foresight Community was once again well-represented at the WFS/AFP annual summer meetings. This time it was …
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