Congratulation to Adjunct Faculty (and Foresight Program alum) 
Terry Grim for winning the 2013 APF Most Significant Futures Works Award for her work in developing the Foresight Maturity Model. Terry has been teaching the “Intro” class in the program for the last several years and we appreciate her skill and expertise in launching students on their journey into the program. She has also been active as a consultant on the outside working with the Foresight Alliance. We are always looking to bring our students a blend of academic and real-world experience, and Terry has been doing that for us!
She began her work on the Foresight Maturity Model several years ago. She helped develop a Strategy Maturity Model during her time on staff with IBM’s Strategy Group. When she retired from IBM and went to work for the former Social Technologies, she figured it was time to take what she learned in developing the Strategy Maturity Model and applying it to foresight.
Another connection to the Houston Foresight program is that she based the “activities” involved in doing foresight work on the six activities of our framework: Framing, Scanning, Forecasting, Visioning, Planning, Acting (which she re-characterized as “Leading). The idea of the FMM is to measure how well, or at what level of capability, the activities are being carried out. The model identifies five degrees of competence in various practices within each of the six activities.
The tool can be used by organizations to assess their degree of foresight “maturity” using a survey took that Terry developed. For more information visit the FMM page. Andy Hines
