Strategic Planning with a Long View Lens
If there are so many businesses changing direction does that mean formal strategic plans are impractical?
Describing a futurist
Futurists do far more than horizon scanning or trend analysis or scenario planning. They listen and understand, they analyze and formulate, and then they make the case to move forward.
How the technium helped me to think critically about technology
One of the most significant ideas that Kelly proposes is that tools (technologies) never die. “Technologies are idea based, and culture is their memory.”
Life, Liberty, and Foresight: The Ultimate Trifecta
I have been asking my professors how foresight has been kept such a secret for eight-plus decades and why it is so often approached in isolation of other closely related disciplines.
Going Where the Youth Are
We all have that story. You know the one. How did you become a futurist? I think it is one of the first questions we are asked when we begin the Houston Foresight program in Intro. The answers are as varied as the diversity of the people who claim the title of futurist.
Watch: APF Awards Ceremony feat. Students Heather Benoit Kampa & JT Mudge
APF held its End of Year Awards Ceremony celebrating the Student Recognition Program and awarding both Foresight students JT Mudge and Heather Benoit Kampa first place (yep, they tied!).