Learn to think about tomorrow, today.
Ideas, authors, concepts and articles that inspire our work.
Foresight
Inayatullah, S. (2008) “Six pillars: futures thinking for transforming” foresight journal, VOL. 10 NO. 1 2008, pp. 4-21
Hancock, Trevor & Bezold, Clement. (1994). Possible futures, preferable futures. The Healthcare Forum Journal. 37. 23-9.
Sardar, Ziauddin & Sweeney, John. (2015). The Three Tomorrows of Postnormal Times. Futures. Vol 75. 10.1016 Pages 1-13.
Horton, A. (1999) “A simple guide to successful foresight” Foresight 1:1, pp.5-9
Popper, R. (2008) “Foresight Methodology” in Georghiou, L., Keenan, M., etal (eds) The Handbook of Technology Foresight, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp44-48
Inayatullah, Sohail (2015). What Works - Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight. Tamsui, Tamkang University.
Conway, M (2021) A Strategic Futures Guide from Foresight Futures. Foresight Futures.
Voros, J. (2003) “A generic foresight process” Foresight, vol.5, no.3, pp.10–21.
Anticipatory Governance
Ramos, J. (2014). Anticipatory governance: Traditions and trajectories for strategic design. Journal of Futures Studies, 19(1), 35-52.
Ramos, J. (2017). Futureslab: Anticipatory experimentation, social emergence, and evolutionary change. Journal of Futures Studies, 22(2), 107-118.
https://jfsdigital.org/2020/04/03/triple-a-governance-anticipatory-agile-and-adaptive/
For Purpose.
Scearce, D. and Fulton, K (2004) What if? The Art of Scenario Thinking for Non-Profits. Global Business Network
Halford, H.(2009) “Build Back Better” – Used futures as the cornerstone for the new normal? Journal of Futures Studies, November 2009, 14(2): 1 - 18
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_nonprofit_starvation_cycle
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/ten_nonprofit_funding_models
Assumptions
Dewar, James A., Carl H. Builder, William M. Hix, and Morlie Levin, (1993) Assumption-Based Planning: A Planning Tool for Very Uncertain Times. RAND Corporation.
Podcasts
The Secret History of the Future https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-secret-history-of-the-future/id1422830638
Should this exist? https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/should-this-exist/id1450215523
WSJ The Future of Everything https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wsjs-the-future-of-everything/id1234320525
Exponential Minds https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/exponential-minds-podcast-nikolas-badminton-futurist/id1092654755
Other
Luft, J.; Ingham, H. (1955). "The Johari window, a graphic model of interpersonal awareness". Proceedings of the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development. Los Angeles: UCLA.
Scott, Susan. (2002) Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time. New York, N.Y: Viking.
Kapferer, Jean-Noël, and Vincent Bastien (2012). The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Kogan Page.
Minto, Barbara (2002) The pyramid principle: logic in writing and thinking. London: Financial Times Prentice Hall.
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
W. Timothy Gallwey, (2000) The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace. Random House.