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Five things about the future that everyone in strategy positions need to know, a short primer on strategic foresight and an overview of services provided by Thinking Futures to help you do strategic foresight in practice.
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Maree Conway
5 things you need to know about the future
Thinking FuturesJuly 2014
And what to do about them in your organisation
1. It’s coming, so get ready
2. It’s uncertain, so get used to it
3. It’s unpredictable, so stop trying
4. It’s about continuous change, so think beyond the status-quo
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5. The future will be shaped by our decisions today, so make wise decisions
Why bother?The aim of thinking about the future today is to develop futures ready strategy
Flexible and agile strategy to enable you to respond to whatever the future brings to your doorstep
People focused in both strategy development and implementation
We think about the future to avoid catching and spreading head-in-sand syndrome
To avoid head-in-sand syndrome, you need to do strategic foresight in your organisation
Strategic ForesightThe ability to take a forward view and use the insights gained in organisationally useful ways (Richard Slaughter)
Collaborative and connected processes
Curated and crowdsourced resources/information
1
ScanningIdentifying and understanding
change that matters
Thinking
Thinking deeply about implications of change and finding alternative options
New Planning
Connecting the future with today by taking action to implement
agreed options
Prerequisites
Recognition of the value of imagination and data to generate ideas and preferred futures
Strong and unwavering leadership commitment to the future across the organisation
The ability to challenge assumptions and cognitive biases about ‘how we do things around here’
How Thinking Futures can help
Environmental Scanning Projects & Reports Scenario Learning Workshops & Reports New Planning: Strategy Development Redesign
and Implementation
Deeper understanding of relevant change Stronger strategic thinking capacity across your
organisation People focused new planning that works
We help you do strategic foresight in practice
Services
Outcomes
Mission
The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is.
It’s that you can see the world as it isn’t.
Kathryn Schulz, TED talk ‘On being wrong’ 2011
Let’s talk soonMaree Conway | Thinking FuturesPO Box 2118, Hotham Hill, 3051Australia
Telephone: +61 (0) 3 9016 9506Mobile: +61 (0) 425 770 181
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://thinkingfutures.net
