foresights
The decisions leaders make today are shaped by what they understand about tomorrow. That's precisely why we built foresights—a dedicated space for sharing the ideas, trends, issues, and signals influencing the futures of leaders and their organisations.
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Case Study: How Scenario Planning Transformed a Council’s Operations Plan Review.
Discover how incorporating scenario planning into your operations review can elevate strategic thinking, foster innovation, and challenge conventional approaches. Foster creativity, challenge assumptions and biases, and collaborate effectively to ensure organisational alignment and success with a futures thinking workshop.
Case Study: How to Engage & Educate with Design Fiction.
Learn how design fiction can help engage and educate stakeholders about potential futures, allowing them to explore these possibilities in a safe space. Discover the power of design fiction to shape our thinking, aiding us in playing an active role in shaping what might happen next!
Doctors Of Our Futures. Design Fiction Presentation.
Key note presentation: 0900 Friday 02 June 2023, Doctors Health in Queensland “DHQ Forum: Doctors Unmasked: being human in medicine” Brisbane, Queensland.
How Imagination Can Overcome Assumptions.
To truly create value for stakeholders requires reimagining what’s possible through creative thinking and questioning our own assumptions about what we know about business as usual.
The Future is Now: Anticipating Not Knowing.
To meet the challenges of tomorrow, we need to anticipate and prepare for the unknowns. This means understanding the systems and contexts that drive what is happening today in order to better understand what will happen next. It also requires a mindset shift towards embracing uncertainty instead of trying to eliminate it.
futures insights: Working in a holacracy.
Holacracy is a system of governance that seeks to replace the rigidity of a traditional command structure with a more flexible and adaptive system. Could it be the future of work?
futures insights: Universal Basic Income.
Universal Basic Income is a system where all citizens of a country or state receive an income from the government to meet their basic needs. What could futures that include Universal Basic Income look like? How could it be funded?
futures insights: Robots as charity fundraisers.
As artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to evolve, so too will the role of robots in charity fundraising. Can we expect to see more human-robot teams in our futures?
futures insights: Direct-to-Avatar Services.
Direct-to-avatar (D2A) is a new business model that allows companies to sell their goods directly to avatars or digital twins of customers in the virtual world. Could it become a reality?
futures insights: Social Ranking Systems.
Social ranking systems - part of our futures, or unlikely to happen? Have we already made the decisions that pre-empt a social ranking system?
futures insights: Participatory Budgeting.
Participatory budgeting - reality or fantasy? How could citizen lead decision making change the way you operate your for-purpose organisation?