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A Brief History of Futures Studies and Foresight

Futures Studies and Foresight integrate the principles, concepts, tools and frameworks that empowers individuals and organizations to...

WEAK SIGNALS — EARLY WARNINGS OF WHAT IS COMING

(You can read and download the full pdf here) 1. Weak Signals — Research Foundations Igor Ansoff was one of the first authors to put in...

SCANNING, SENSING AND ACTING

The “Scanning, Sensing and Acting” framework presented in this article starts with the statement that organizations need not only to have...

SCENARIOS: LEARNING AND ACTING FROM THE FUTURE Part 3: Three Schools of Scenario Planning

In 1987 William Huss and Edward Honton published the paper “Scenario Planning — What style should you use?”, in which they distinguish...

SCENARIOS: LEARNING AND ACTING FROM THE FUTURE Part 2: The Key Dimensions of Scenarios

The word Scenario was originally associated to the performative arts like theatre and cinema (Ringland, 1998, Kleiner, 1996, Notten,...

SCENARIOS: LEARNING AND ACTING FROM THE FUTURE Part 1: A Blueprint of the History of Scenarios

The origin of the word scenario comes from the Latin word “scaen”, which means scene (Ringland, 1998), and it is traditionally related to...