The Value of Scanning & Proactive Futures Work in the C-Suite

We served up the anthem for senior leaders to engage in this work and not treat it as less serious, play time. As a matter of survival and avoid the stresses and hiccups of disruption, executives need to be a s good at determining and spotting the future as they are this quarter, maybe better. 

Design Fiction - an Important Process and Tool for Thinking About the Future

We documented design fiction's four steps as a new paradigm from which to build your strategy. As part of a larger initiative to think differently about the future of your organization, design fiction taps the imaginations of your stakeholders (instead of predicting with certainty) in a way traditional strategy does not.  

Discovery of Patterns Landscapes and Megatrends of Opportunity

We looked at new ways of envisioning futures with three key differences: convergence, divergence: and cyclicality, Professionals need to explore new possibilities and have a more oriented view of the future that can be different and not be afraid to look beyond the boundaries of uncertainty, because the the best is waiting there for us. 

Creative Systems Theory and our Investment in Creative Framing

We instilled the need to go  beyond the mechanistic assumptions of Modern Age thought and allow us to think in ways that better reflect our living human natures. Key to Creative theory’s success with this essential task is the way that it reframes the workings of multiple intelligence.layers - the body, the imagination, the emotions, and the intellect.

Reengagement of Futures Consciousness Assessed by Five Dimensions

As seen through the vignette of young people potential in Africa, we proposed safaris of imagination/sensemaking, to replace fatalism with foresight and to make sense of a world that is in constant  flux. We demonstrated this through  improvements in: Time Perspective, Systems Perceptions, Concern for Others, Openness to Alternatives, and Agency Beliefs.