SECTION 8 – Embracing the Future
What are the futures and foresight tools, methods and processes that we can use to explore, understand and create the future?
Foresight Infused Strategy Development
Maree Conway is an experienced foresight and strategy consultant and the founder of Thinking Futures (Australia). She explores how to infuse foresight into existing corporate strategy processes to strengthen outcomes and execution.
Automated, Experiential, Open: How to Overcome “Futures Fatigue” with Emerging Foresight Practices
Cornelia Daheim, a leading German futurist and foresight consultant, highlights a growing trend towards the use of IT-based, participative and experiential approaches to invigorate and enhance the practice of corporate foresight.
Storifying Foresight: Scenario Planning as a Tool for Improved Change Management Processes
Dr. Claire Nelson is Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum USA and a White House Champion of Change. She explains the critical role of scenario planning and storytelling in helping organizations shape and share their desired visions of the future, and in delivering the resulting organizational changes.
Is the Future of Design Thinking in the Future of Business Foresight?
Jim Burke is a U.S. foresight coach focused on delivering innovation and effective ways to think about and act on future. Jim highlights the growing use of Design Thinking as part of the foresight process, particularly for prototyping future scenarios.