Practical Foresight: Updating Your Contingencies
Update your contingency scenarios with a little foresight.
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Lindsay
Mar 291 min read
Across Sectors: Connecting the Dots
VFS is constantly talking to Executives across a variety of public, private, and non-profit sectors. A few of our current clients...
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VFS Team
Mar 222 min read
Practical Foresight: Discuss the Trends
Fortunately, it doesn’t take very long to have a good discussion about the future. In fact, ninety minutes will do just fine.
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VFS Team
Mar 82 min read
Practical Foresight: Picture Your Environment
Build your team's shared mental model of your operating environment.
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VFS Team
Feb 232 min read
Practical Foresight: 10 Minutes Each Week
Practical Foresight activity #1: 10 minutes each week to discuss signals of change.
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VFS Team
Dec 1, 20233 min read
Choosing Your AI Path
It might surprise some people to learn that formal futures studies has a lot of history in it. When it comes to the topic of economic...
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Lindsay
Sep 29, 20231 min read
Praise for 4 Steps to the Future
“4 Steps to the Future” by Dr. Richard Lum is a thought-provoking and insightful guide..."
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Richard Lum
May 12, 20232 min read
Where are You Squeezing to Predict, Where are You Relaxing to See Possibilities?
Sometimes we are trying to predict a specific future thing, and other times we are trying to see more of what is possible.
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Richard Lum
Sep 30, 20221 min read
Hurricanes, Strategic Shifts, and the Hard Work of Foresight
The thing that makes foresight tough, that can make the work we do seem like a Sisyphean existence, has to do with changing minds.
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Richard Lum
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Opening the Aperture
To do good foresight work, especially in today’s turbulent context, one of the things we need is more information about the wider world.
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Richard Lum
Sep 9, 20221 min read
The Future is an Expanding Space
“The future” is an expanding space of possibilities, not a contracting one. This is why we typically talk about the futures ahead of us,...
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Richard Lum
Jul 15, 20222 min read
Knowing What Kind of Foresight You Need
Now that so many more of us are becoming familiar with foresight, we have an opportunity to be more discerning about what we need.
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Richard Lum
Jun 20, 20222 min read
Disinformation is Not a Future Problem
In ten years’ time, “disinformation” is not going to be the headline. Something else will. Something else will dominate people’s...
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Richard Lum
Apr 27, 20223 min read
The 3 Easiest Ways to Link Foresight to Strategy
It is easy to apply foresight to existing strategy conversations. Here we quickly look at three simple ways to link the two.
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