![]() In order to capitalize on these disruptions, organizations should bet on implementing secure, AI-first intelligent workflows to run their enterprise. Quantum computing is quickly approaching the ability to break public key encryptions, but also introducing the possibility to solve complex problems that classical computers cannot. Cybersecurity costs continue to grow, as do regulation and governance requirements. Generative AI has captured the world’s imagination and democratized AI in every aspect of society and business, from supply chains and IT operations to customer service and HR. We can also build stronger, more resilient foresight and design practices in the process - ideas which we will explore in subsequent posts.Trend: Tech-led disruptions are accelerating, driven by generative AI Bet: Implement secure, AI-first intelligent workflows to run their enterprise ![]() In this way, strategy and action are viewed as intergenerational, are systems-oriented and more closely resemble strategic foresight than the three-year, corporate strategic plans we are used to seeing.īy acknowledging and understanding a range of different perspectives and world-views, we can develop cultural empathy, and be more intentional in creating equitable and inclusive futures. The Māori principle of Kaitiakitanga is that of guardianship of one’s environment, creating action in the present, honouring ancestors of the past, for the benefit of future generations (to paraphrase Te Aroha Grace). ![]() The goal of experiential futures is “the design of situations and stuff from the future to catalyse insight and change (in the present)."Īlthough we are influenced by these luminaries and their approaches, thinking about and planning for the future, like many things, is not an exclusively western concept or practice. The circumstances of encounter where particular events are given physical form at 1:1 scale in various media. generic image of the future)Ī specific narrative proposition and sequence of events that emerge from the setting The theme or kind of the future to be explored (e.g. Experiential futures focuses on a nested concept of three spaces: Experiential FuturesĮxperiential futures is an evolving, contemporary approach to futures thinking created by Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan. He is known for developing the 6 Pillars method for transformative futures alongside Dr Ivana Milojevic. In 2010, he was awarded the Laurel award for all-time best futurist by the Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network. Professor Inayatullah was awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies in 2015. Although they regard themselves as methodologically agnostic, they have developed a broad and deep toolbox, whilst their process cycles through four stages: PREPARE > FORESIGHT > INSIGHT > ACTION Sohail Inayatullah IFTF were born out of the RAND Corporation 50 years ago, and are based in Palo Alto in Silicon Valley. There are three 'flavours' of strategic foresight, which influence our work: Institute for the Future The aim is not to pick a state and transition, but, to quote Sohail Inayatullah "continuously investigate our assumptions of what we believe the future will or should be like." Strategic foresight moves further upstream, where we identify weak signals, extrapolate trends and examine the wider environment to frame different scenarios of how the world could be, creating insight and catalysing change. Design is also generally focused on transitioning from a current state toward an improved future state. ![]() There are many overlaps between strategic foresight and design (thinking), including research practices, large-scale sensemaking, abductive reasoning and the creation of ideas, insight and prototypes- although design is mostly concerned with an existing problem change along shorter timelines. We then create visions of how we see the world in a preferred future, in order create action in the present and 'pull' the desired future towards us. Using these tools we can imagine, explore and probe how the world could be across a range of probable and possible futures. Often beginning ten-years out, strategic foresight gives us tools and methods to think about multiple futures in a way that helps us anticipate change in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.Īs stated by Kedge: The Futures School, Strategic Foresight "is an organizational, social, and personal practice that allows us to create functional and operational views of alternative futures and possibilities." Thinking about the future is an innately human activity, practiced for millennia in order for us to survive and evolve, and mainly concerned with short or medium-term horizons.
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