E-Book Now Available [limited] & Paperback Launching February 10, 2025. It took over a decade, but perhaps …
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Introducing TIPPOs: Trends, Issues, Plans, Projections and Obstacles
We at Houston Foresight are always tweaking our core Framework Foresight process. The short version of the process is …
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A Technique for Guiding Images of the Future
I'm pleased that “A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future After Capitalism” has been accepted for …
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Understanding, Mapping, and Influencing the Future
What do we teach about the future? What does one need to know to be an effective futurist? The six steps of our basic …
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Virtual Professional Certificate in Foresight Starts April 6th!
We still have spots open for our next Foresight seminar starting April 6th! This virtual boot camp immerses you in the …
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What’s your Foresight Sauce?
In Futures Research class last week, we reviewed our Framework Foresight method from A to Z. I emphasize that my goal …
Foresight Slides for a Desert Island
You are exiled to a desert island and you were given permission to print out three slides to take with you. What would …
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Design Pizazz for the Framework Foresight Cone
The process is never done (see the last tweak). Sometime we get lucky with students who are not only supremely …
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Scenario archetypes across 3 horizons
When we explain our four archetype scenarios, often someone will ask whether there is a pattern in how the four …
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A “Final” Tweak to the Framework Foresight cone
Final is in quotes to acknowledge that the process is never final. But there is a necessary balance to having some …
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Updating the Framework Foresight cone
It’s that time again. We’re always tweaking our core Framework Foresight process. Every few years the tweaks build up …
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Framework Foresight Video
A key mission of Houston Foresight is to introduce people to spread the use of "high-quality" foresight. In order to do …
Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 5 Archetypes
Let me begin with proper credit to Professor Jim Dator for the concept [Jim Dator, Alternative Futures at the Manoa …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight: Drivers (part 4)
The graphic has the drivers in the rectangles. This is from a project on the future of knowledge work we did about ten …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight, Part 3
Last time we talked about the different approaches we used to develop inputs to create the ingredients for the baseline …
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Clustering, Pattern Recognition, and Synthesizing
These are a few of my favorite things (humming Sound of Music). I have been doing all three a lot lately, and talking …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight Part 2
With the history on hand, let’s now dig into some fairly significant process tweaks we’re implementing in Framework …
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Evolution of Framework Foresight (part 1)
Framework Foresight is the core method we use to teach students how to explore the future. It is deliberately designed …
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Introducing the Future
I’m sure there a mixed feelings at a conference when it’s time for the futurist session. What is a futurist …
Has Trump Shifted the Baseline?
This question emerged in a working session on the future of US and Mexico relations. In good Framework Foresight …
Changing sense of place: the Virtual Replicator
Interesting how many times I’ve rewritten this! I keep seeing different angles, but not convinced that’s it, trying …
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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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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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Masters of Transition?
I’ve been involved in Summer chats with students about their progress in the program and about the future in general. …
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 …
Foresight classics: 20/20 foresight characterizes uncertainty
Not surprisingly, we discussed uncertainty during Futures Research class this semester. Hugh Courtney’s 20/20 Foresight: …
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Foresight Value Proposition
We were discussing the value proposition last week, as we often do on the APF listserv. I thought we’d discuss a couple …
Second edition of Thinking about the Future
An updated second edition of Thinking about the Future is now available on Amazon. The foreseeable depletion of the …
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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 …
The push and pull of the future
We reviewed Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars in Alternative Perspectives class last night. The first pillar, mapping, …