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VFS Team
Jan 151 min read
Unlocking the Future: Key Insights from the CBO's Demographic Outlook Report
The recent report from the Congressional Budget Office, "The Demographic Outlook: 2025 to 2055," is an invaluable foresight resource.
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VFS Team
Apr 19, 20242 min read
Practical Foresight: Get it All Down on Paper
Capturing the results of your Practical Foresight activities.
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Lindsay
Mar 29, 20241 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 22, 20242 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
Feb 23, 20242 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
Feb 9, 20242 min read
Practical Foresight: First Steps
A checklist for basic ideas and practices for building team foresight.
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Richard Lum
Feb 24, 20231 min read
Rebalancing Your Foresight Portfolio
Is it time to rebalance your team’s view of the future threats and opportunities for your organization?
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Richard Lum
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Can You Envision the Machines?
Imagine the world around us in a different way
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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
Jul 8, 20221 min read
10 Things Your 10-Year Scenarios Need #2: Geopolitical Shifts
Geopolitics, far from being only the concern of national policy makers, can and does dramatically affect all of us
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Richard Lum
Jul 1, 20221 min read
10 Things You Need to Include in Your 10-Year Forecasts
10 important trends every long-term scenario needs to include.
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Richard Lum
Jun 27, 20221 min read
Not Challenging Enough
There are a number of very serious, long-run transitions underway that are reshaping our world in fundamental ways. Climate change is...
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Richard Lum
Apr 18, 20224 min read
The Simple Organizational Benefits of Foresight Training
Foresight training transforms scattered staff insights into a shared organizational understanding of emerging threats and opportunities.
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