Change: organisationsorganizations need wider global knowledge obtained from many more external sources and a new set of cognitive skills to determine their best future responses.The following critical cognitive skills need to be mastered: trend assessment: the competency to understand trend directions, assess   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 371)

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Change:  Discover the future Guide to futures thinking Five Views Of The FutureFutures Studies: An Overview of Basic ConceptsNext: Future Practices Back: Home To: Shaping Tomorrow Next: Future Challenges Back: Changing Futures To: Shaping TomorrowCopyright: Some rights reserved. This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 380)

Change: of the past analysis.and gut feel. Organisations that inspire, engage and enable their people to use foresight in their daily work through developing their strategic competencies can acquire and maintain a sustainable futures-orientated edge in their global marketplace(s). Next practiceLeading organisations use systematic, collaborative   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 371)

Change: transdisciplinarytransdisciplinary, systems-science based approach to analysing patterns of change in the past, identifying trends of change in the present and extrapolating alternative views of possible change in the future in order to help create the futures they desire. These science based approaches span five main areas:Trend assessment:   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 364)

Change: Systems analysis: scenario planning and other methods create context and understandingAnticipatory planning: modelling of the desired/current state and gap identificationInstinct and logic: collaborative design of anticipatory understanding and responseThis guide serves as a documented description of how our   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 351)

Change: systemsystems perspective: the capability to envision the entire system rather than the isolated components, anticipation: to anticipate short and long term consequences over time, novel situations and geography, and instinct and logic: to rely on a combination of instincts and logic rather than purely rational analysis. Organisations that   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 291)

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Change: help create the futures they desire.This guide serves as a documented description of how our clients, and others well known to us, achieve successful outcomes, avoid upcoming risk, innovate and thus create next practice through practical collaborative foresight. Further references Are you fit for tomorrow? Discover the future Guide   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 288)