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How to Future
How to Future Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange
Edition 1
Pages Dimensions Subject Kogan Page Inspire 03/07/2020
240 216x138 Leadership
This book << Provides clear, practical and easy to understand tools that will help you spot trends and patterns, strategically evaluate different futures and guide your strategy << Depicts a strategic framework to understand the uncertain nature of the current business world that crucially allows you to embrace hyperchange and adapt and plan for it << Delivers a common language to engage stakeholders and teams with innovation practices and strategy foresight
Author Information
Scott Smith is a renowned futurist, business writer and adviser who is an expert in strategic foresight and futures design. He has over 25 years of grounded experience in applied foresight and has advised global corporations, governments and NGOs including UNICEF, ASOS, the Dubai Future Foundation and Comcast. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Quartz and The Atlantic. He is based in Amsterdam.
Madeline Ashby is a consulting futurist, expert and adviser on technology, culture, politics and strategic foresight, based in Toronto. She is a regular contributor to Slate and writes for MIT Technology Review.
Description
How can you be prepared for what’s next when emerging trends constantly threaten to turn your strategic plan on its head? The world of business is experiencing a state of hyperchange influenced by global movements, disruptive technologies, political uprisings and new consumer expectations. If your world is turned upside down, will you know how to pivot and thrive, or will you be roadkill in the ‘adapt or die’ business race? Futuring is the art of anticipating and testing the trade-offs of different futures by making sense of key trends, signals and emerging patterns. How to Future is the only book that will teach you how to become a strategy wayfinder, allowing you to evaluate, plan and prepare for better futures for you and your business.
How to Future is a guidebook to futuring and arms you with tools, strategies and practices that illuminate new strategic pathways. Renowned futurists Scott Smith and Madeline Ashby teach you how to manage the daily flood of information and signals, and discern emergent patterns that have a direct impact on the direction of your business. How to Future isn’t about the “one future” you expect. Instead, this book equips you with valuable tools and concepts, builds a future-focused mindset and enables you to envision, stress-test and prototype adaptable, informed and agile strategic visioning. These tools will empower you, your team and your organization to anticipate whatever futures emerge.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Why “Future,” and Why Now? 2 Different Futuring for Different Needs 3 Getting Started: Scoping 4 Sensing and Scanning: Finding Signals of the Future Now 5 Sensemaking and Mapping: Turning Data and Insights into Patterns and Themes 6 Scenario Development: Combining Patterns and Themes to Tell Strategic Stories 7 Storytelling and Prototyping: Creating Ways for Others to Engage with Your Future Stories 8 Assessing Effectiveness 9 What to Do Next? 10 Conclusion 11 Resources and Further Reading
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