Emotional and rational future maze
Posted in: Foresight, Wouldn't it be nice... Tags: acceptance, anxiety, certainty, confidence, emotion, epicurus, Foresight, Future, hope, human, Humanity, strategic foresight, uncertainty
We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come, nor despair of it as quite certain not to come. Epicurus, 341-270 b.C., Greek philosopher, Letter to Menouceus, The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments [...]
Foresight Identities – a journey of transformation
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Life Tags: eric hoffer, Foresight, foresight identities, Future, howard thurman, human, Humanity, identity, ideology, intuition, jonah lehrer, learned, martin luther king, opinion, Prosapience, research, science, sisu, timing, william gibson
Just like we are different people to different people Foresight Identities are different approaches for different needs… I gave a talk on Foresight Identities and my journey through them at the ‘Futures Hot House’ at AMP building in Sydney last week, thank you Janine and thank you audience for the wonderful questions. The NINE different [...]
Vignette – how to on foresight – nay sayers and cynics
Posted in: Foresight Tags: Creativity, Foresight, Future, how to, human, Innovation, strategy, unusual sources
CONSULT UNUSUAL SOURCES, PEOPLE, AND PLACES–INCLUDING OUTLIERS, COMPLAINERS, AND TROUBLEMAKERS One important function of strategic foresight is the opening of the future. The inclusion of different perspectives is one way to assure this opening. Analysts should look for competent people inside and outside who bring a different way of thinking to the table. Key steps [...]
Vignette – how to on foresight – modules of goodness
Posted in: Foresight Tags: Foresight, Future, how to, modularization, organization, outcome, product creation, psychology, root causes, strategy, success
MODULARIZE OUTCOMES–KEEP THE GOOD AND DEAL WITH THE BAD Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a self-defeating reaction to negative outcomes. Organizations need to think in degrees of gray. They require an ability to sort thinking into modules, and know what to keep, what to get rid off, and what to deal with [...]
Vignette – how to on foresight – fertile ground
SHIFT ATTITUDES TOWARDS RECEPTIVENESS TO CHANGE George Bernard Shaw said, “You see things and say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” It is important to cultivate receptiveness to the new: “Let’s try and understand this better.” The new disturbs existing comfort zones and positions and as a consequence [...]
Vignette – how to on foresight – trends & business-as-usual
Posted in: Foresight Tags: anticipate, business model, discontinuities, Foresight, fundamental, Future, how to, shifts, trends, waves
ASSESS FUNDAMENTAL SHIFTS THAT COULD IMPACT BUSINESS-AS-USUAL Fundamental shifts are those external forces that have the potential of shaking the core assumptions of an organization. These forces are referred to as megatrends, discontinuities, tsunamis, or drivers of change depending on the practitioner. Regardless of what they are called, they have the potential to surprise an [...]
Ageism on the net
Posted in: Foresight Tags: ageism, Belonging, Connecting, Future, human, Prosapience
I have been wondering whether I was the only one getting annoyed by some of the ageism on the net… Today I found out at the Enterprise 2.0 Future Exploration that no I am not the only one getting tired of this simplistic cop-out or even worse, ageism by hiring only those under 45, cause [...]
What gets nettified?
Posted in: Innovation Tags: Connecting, Future, nettification, nettify, networked organization
Previously I asked whether your business was being nettified. Now I’d like to ponder on what does get nettified or is being nettified. Nettify and nettification I found no dictionary results and only two other references to the word being used for this meaning. v. Nettified v.tr 1. To make web friendly 2. To intertwine/entangle [...]
Is your business nettified?
Posted in: Foresight, Innovation Tags: Connecting, entreprise future, Future, internet, mobile, nettification, networked business
One industry (ICTI) has swelled up a strong wind for all other industries. The Internet, a breeze in the early 90s, is hungry for more. Life is in the nettification‘s embrace with technologies like: online/offline (Adobe – Air), mobile (like Android and other open promises), location brilliant (many emerging businesses and applied businesses), multi-sensory, searchable/findable, [...]
The unbearable lightness of ‘saying’
Posted in: Innovation Tags: Continuity, Future, human, Humanity, Prosapience, social graph, social networking
Judging young net companies by their current state and making that an immutable “It is not the social network sites that are interesting — it is the social network itself” This is just one of the sorts of quips I have read lately on the state of affairs on the net. On the positive side [...]
Future and Sci-Fi
What is the role of the science fiction writer in our future? ….my view is that science fiction writers imagine the future – which the scientists and business people then go and make happen – sometimes it takes a long time – but I don’t think that they ‘predict the future’ as someone said in [...]
AusForesight2007
Posted in: Foresight Tags: ausforesight2007, autonomous, behaviour, change, collaboration, evan thompson, Foresight, francisco varela, Future, futurist, habit, human, integral, jan lee martin, ken wilber, meaning making, naomi klein, pattern recognition, peter bishop, peter hayward, richard slaughter, serafino de simone, sohail inayatullah, taboo
Three days in the lives of futurists – together AusForesight2007 is now part of history and memories. We came together in a national event with one tireless international guest Peter Bishop to reflect, react and respond. We reflected on the meaning of futures in our lives and in the world. We reacted to what we [...]
How many futurists?
There are about 100 foresight professionals or futurists in Oz [lose definition or lets say not formed definition of criteria but people who associate themselves with being that]. Oz is about 2% of Global GDP. Australia has a vibrant community and long history with some wonderful godfathers [Richard Slaughter, Sohail Inayahtullah] and one gorgeous mother [...]
The way I fill up my insight fountain
Posted in: Innovation Tags: anthropology, contextual enquiry, Foresight, Future, insight, lifestyles and product identity, product creation, Prosapience, replenish, stealth, strategy
Learn to read in between the lines – for example if in one industry, observe the others Pushing ourselves to observe something across the silo fence can provide a brilliant way to improve products, services, solutions for all. We see these new circumstances better than those who live with the situation all the time. You [...]
Innovation variants – Nokia and Computer Sciences Corporation
Posted in: Foresight, Innovation Tags: business model, consumer foresight, context, create waves, decision speed, differentiate, era, ethos, Foresight, foxtrot positioning, Future, industry, innofuture, Innovation, innovation avalanche, living, maturity, position, product creation, ride waves, segmentation, shaping, speaker, tailored
Do you create waves or ride waves or both? Which one is relevant to your innovation program and why? Speaking at the InnoFuture2007 in Melbourne, Australia, as a panel member on different takes to innovation from some key industries, I represented the ICTI [Information Communication Telecommunication and Internet industry]. This is roughly what I spoke [...]
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