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Embarking on Foresight Current State Assessment
Houston Foresight’s current student, Lesia Fejer is embarking on an important and long-overdue research project: Assessing the State of Foresight. How many Fortune 500 companies employ [...]
Lesia Embarking on Foresight Current State Assessment
Houston Foresight’s current student, Lesia Fejer is embarking on an important and long-overdue research project: Assessing the State of Foresight. How many Fortune 500 companies [...]
Q&A: What are Your Top Trends?
At a recent keynote Q&A, I was asked about my top trends. The question actually went like this “a year ago, I attended a presentation [...]
Journal of Futures Studies Publication: Transition Scenarios via Backcasting
Dr. Hines and alumni Johann Schutte and Maria Romero co-authored a piece in the Journal of Futures Studies about Transition Scenarios via Backcasting. The three [...]
Professor Andy Hines is a Fellow at GAO’s new Center for Strategic Foresight
Our own Dr. Hines was asked to be a Fellow and participate in a conference celebrating the new Center for Strategic Foresight at the Government [...]
Spring Gathering 2020: Save the Date!
The dates for the 2020 Houston Foresight Spring Gathering are LOCKED! April 17-18 we will explore Science Fiction futures. Details on location, Friday plans, etc. [...]
FUTURISTS SPEAK!
A few weeks ago, I was asked to keynote the morning of a week-long training a for large healthcare insurance provider. They had already spent time [...]
Finding the Fringe Takes Time
Recently I posted about snowball scanning as a way to find the fringe in horizon scanning. As I thought more about, I realized a big [...]
Snowball Scanning
We have been doing a lot of thinking and work on horizon scanning at Houston Foresight. We revised our process several years back captured in [...]
Laura Schlehuber joins Houston Foresight
You know her, you love her! Houston Foresight alum and Certificate Instructor Laura Schlehuber has joined the Houston Foresight program to direct our growing research [...]
Alum Maria Romero joins KnowledgeWorks
Alum Maria Romero is joining the Strategic Foresight team at KnowledgeWorks as a Senior Manager. Maria is a professional futurist with expertise in strategic foresight, [...]
NEW 2020 Dates for the Foresight Certificate Seminar
Over the past year we have experienced extraordinary growth in interest in the UH Strategic Foresight Certificate Program. This year our April session sold out [...]