SECTION 9 – Framing the Future
How should organizations look at the future?
What Works in Transforming Organizations and Institutions?
Professor Sohail Inayatullah is on the faculty at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan and Director of metafuture.org. He identifies critical insights and principles for how we can use foresight and a learning journey approach to framing new strategies and driving organizational transformation.
Futures Thinking – A Critical Organizational Skill
Hardin Tibbs, a highly experienced UK-based futurist, strategist, educator, and writer, highlights the importance of developing the critical future thinking skills that enable a organization to anticipate and adapt to change.
Critical Foresight Skills
Dr. Peter Bishop was Director of the Foresight program at the University of Houston and is now the Executive Director of Teach the Future which helps educators teach foresight. He highlights how organizations can acquire the key foresight skills required to create new adaptive strategies and drive change in uncertain times.
Business Management in a Time of Change: The Importance of Futures Studies
Professor Francisco Jose Martinez-Lopez from the University of Huelva, Spain, specializes in information technology and future studies, and Mercedes Garcia Ordaz is Associate Professor of the University of Huelva of the Department of Financial Economy, Accounting and Operations Management. They explore the critical importance of future studies and long term planning in an era of rapid change.
Is The Pace of Change Accelerating?
Stephen Aguilar-Millan is s consulting futurist from the UK and Director of Research at the European Futures Observatory. He examines the potential for the pace of change to stop accelerating and examines the possible consequences.
The Outside Context Problem, A Concerned Observer’s Guide
Benjamin Mottram is a UK based future thinker and authority on crowd sourcing and gamification. He discusses how organizations can make sense of and address the unforeseen and complex problems that will be thrown up by a constantly changing operating environment over the next two decades.
Be There Now
Paul Brooks, a Hawaii-based researcher on social and economic emergence, stresses the importance of openness, dynamism and scalability in helping a business prepare for the future.
Section 10 – Conclusions
Navigating Uncertainty and a Rapidly Changing Reality
Lead Editor Rohit Talwar sets out a framework to help leaders respond to the ideas presented in the book to drive future strategy and navigate uncertainty and a rapidly changing reality.