I recently taught our week-long Certificate course in Strategic Foresight in Brussels. It was a great group who was …
Another take on Future of Work Surprises
I really enjoyed the commentary "A Dozen Surprises about the Future of Work: Implications for Workforce …
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A Step Forward in Evaluating Scenarios
Nice to be back in the saddle after a spectacular honeymoon in beautiful St. Thomas. Hopped right over to Brussels …
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STEEP is just an acronym!
A little bit of a rant here. The really good news is that foresight and futurists are being introduced to more and more …
An Infiltration Approach to Foresight
Several years ago I identified five approaches to positioning foresight. The inside-outside[r]: a provocateur …
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More cooperative futurists? Revisiting the future of futures scenarios
Back in 2003, the Association of Professional Futurists, in its inaugural Gathering, did a scenario planning workshop on …
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Better Consulting Futurists
Many futurists make their living as consultants, mostly as external consultants but even those working within a single …
Foresight Challenges: Introducing, Positioning, and Institutionalizing
Coming up for air after a couple of intense days engaging with the dissertation. Most of the time was rather …
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Can we talk….about the future ?
While we like to Think about the Future, we also need to talk about it. One of the challenges in talking about the …
More on the Future of Libraries
Found a clip from a couple of minutes on the local Houston KRIV-26 News talking about the future of libraries. One of my …
Hitting the Snooze Button on the future’s “Biggest Wake Up Call”
I was very pleased to review my futurist friend and colleague Richard Slaughter's latest work "The Biggest Wake Up call …
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