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Shaping Tomorrow Through Practical Foresight

Practical ForesightGuide objectives
This guide provides commercial, not-for profit, government organisations and future interested people with a simple, concise approach to developing systematic collaborative foresight capabilities with limited external help and at low-cost:

  • Practical guidance on how-to accomplish specific foresight tasks
  • Information and examples of best and next practice
  • Advice on designing strategic foresight projects and programmes
  • A reference guide
  • A refresher and reminder of ways to approach different issues
  • The ingredients to achieve successful outcomes and observable improvements
  • The potential to create 'disruptive' innovation
  • Bulleted check-lists to remind, provoke, and ensure completeness

The guide has been designed in twenty three sequential chapters, for ease of reference, and can be read in full in about an hour:

Changing Futures, Future Practices, Future Challenges, Strategic Leadership, Starting Futuring, Foresight Approaches, Future Assumptions, Futures Outcomes, Scoping Futures, Stakeholder Management, Futuring Methods, Foresight Management, Futures Presentations, Horizon Scanning, Strategic Thinking, Action Planning, Futures Networking, Foresight Development, Strategy Communication, Management Review, Futuring References, Foresight Glossary, Foresight Futures

Advanced material is referenced, hyper-linked or shown as sub-texts throughout the guide for those with the time and wishing to explore in more depth.

Collaborative Foresight

Whose it for?
This guide is for the use of people who:

  • are charged with designing and running foresight programmes and projects
  • those engaged in change management
  • those seeking to inspire, engage and enable other collaborators interested in knowing answers to how the future may turn out
  • those wanting to be true leaders of their communities and next practice thought leaders including:

  • Executives
  • Planners
  • Risk assessors
  • Innovators
  • Trendwatchers
  • Marketers
  • Change agents
  • Portfolio managers
  • Intelligence officers
  • R&D leaders
  • Designers
  • Management developers
  • Business developers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M& A analysts
  • Students of foresight
  • Consultants
  • Futurists

Quote: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

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