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Presentation slidedeck for a two-day training course featuring futures methods with examples from UK Government Foresight programme and other futures projects across the government and private sectors.
Dates: 1-2 December 2011 Audience: Up to 20 delegates from universities and other
institutions in Argentina with an interest in futures methods Language: Course delivered in English with simultaneous translation
available Method: Powerpoint presentations and group exercises (usually
working in four groups of 5- 6 people each) with a flipchart but no tables
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Training for Argentinean Institutions Foresight Approaches and Methods
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Training for Argentinean Institutions Foresight Approaches and Methods
Dr Wendy Schultz [email protected]
Martin Duckworth
December 1 2, 2011
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DAY ONE
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SHIFT HAPPENS HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?NR=1&V=TZJRJEWFVTY
HTTP://SHIFTHAPPENS.WIKISPACES.COM/VERSIONS
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Aims for today
Introduction to strategic futures
Introduction to various methods
Experience in using selected foresight tools
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Ground Rules The more that you contribute the more you will
benefit
All questions are valid and will contribute to the shared learning
We can all learn from the experience of others
Speak out if there are things you do not understand (others will probably have similar questions)
Engage fully with the exercises
Enjoy the day!
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Contractors to UK Foresight Dr Wendy Schultz Taught Futures Studies post-graduate courses at the University of Houston
and Nanyang Technical University, Singapore Designed and conducted futures projects for national and local
government agencies in the US and UK Designed and implemented scanning database pilot project for UK HSC Member of the Lead Expert Group for the UK Foresight Programmes Land
Use Futures Project, and conducting a formal review of UK Government Foresight programme futures frameworks and methods
Independent consultant and Principal of SAMI Consulting Martin Duckworth Delivers training courses for the UK Government Foresight programme Manages the contract to provides analysis and facilitation support to UK
Foresight Has participated in a number of futures projects to UK Government
Departments and Agencies Independent consultant and Principal of SAMI Consulting
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Agenda, December 1
09:30 Welcome 09:45 Introduction to futures thinking 10:30 Introduction to Horizon Scanning 11:30 Coffee 11:45 Exercise 1: Horizon scanning 12:15 Introduction to drivers of change 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Exercise 2: Prioritise and cluster drivers 14:30 Impacts of change / Systems Thinking 15.30 Tea 15:45 Exercise 3: Futures Wheels 16:15 Reflections and follow up 16:30 Close
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Futures and Foresight Introduction and Overview
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Why think about the future?
The 40:30:20 rule
The pace of change
The illusion of certainty
To give different perspectives of the present
To reduce risk
Strategic planning
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40:30:20 Rule 40% of time spent thinking about issues outside
the company
30% of this spent thinking about future challenges and strategic issues
20% of this is spent in dialogue with other senior managers
Therefore only 2.4% of senior managers time is spent collectively discussing strategic issues for the future of the business
Source: US Fortune 500 companies study
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The pace of change
The time to achieve 50 million users:
Broadcast radio 38 years
Broadcast TV 13 years
Personal computers 16 years
Internet 4 years
Source: US Department of Commerce
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The illusion of certainty
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, founder of computer giant DEC, 1977
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Need for strategic futures thinking
We are entering a world of unprecedented uncertainty
Policies are often driven by an official view of the future
It enables a wider range of potential opportunities to be assessed
It enables risks to be identified and managed
Those engaged in it become better managers
In some cases we can influence the future.
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Futures and Forecasts
Hope!
Uncertainty
Predetermined
Distance into the future
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Foresight question & context
Profession,
field, market
Organisation /
community
Problem /
question
Politics
Demo-
graphics
Economy
Environ-
ment
Science
Art, play
Technology
Lifestyles
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Five Key Components of Foresight Futures Framework to Create Change
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Awareness
Identify change and its impacts: trends in chosen variables, changes in cycles, and emerging issues of change. Change identification: data mining, horizon scanning, survey research, focus groups, leading indicator analysis, cohort analysis.
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Impact mapping: Causal layered analysis, focus groups, cross-impact analysis, futures wheels, systems models & causal loop analysis.
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Exploration
Identify, analyse, and build alternative images of the future, or scenarios.
Content analysis,
econometric models,
systems dynamic models,
scenario building:
matrix, FAR, dialogue, diversity, parameter.
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Visioning
Identify, analyse, and articulate images of preferred futures, or visions.
Future Search,
Future Workshops,
Community Visioning,
Fluent Visioning, Learning Organisation.
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Action
Identify stakeholders and resources; clarify goals; design strategies; organise action; create change.
Backcasting, Joint Problem-Solving, Strengths-Weakness-Opportunities-Threats
analysis, Wind-tunnelling, Stakeholder Analysis, PERT and GANTT charting.
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Case study: Natural England
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Focal Question for today
What could influence Argentinas natural and built environment by 2060?
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Futures and Foresight Horizon Scanning
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Horizon Scanning
The key to futures methods Definitions Uses Academic Origins of Horizon Scanning Stages to a typical horizon scanning project Horizon scanning terms Various frameworks to think about scanning Sources of horizon scanning data Organising and classifying horizon scan data Collecting interview data 7 Questions technique Drivers of the future
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The map is not the territory,
Navigational charts vs. radar: you need both.
because the territory is dynamic.
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Horizon Scanning is...
. the systematic examination of potential threats, opportunities and likely developments including but not
restricted to those at the margins of current thinking
and planning. Horizon scanning may explore novel
and unexpected issues as well as persistent problems
or trends.
(Chief Scientists Advisers Committee, 09/04)
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Looking ahead beyond usual timescales
Looking across beyond usual sources
Looking around Beyond usual cultures
Beyond a single expected future
To a range of possible
futures to consider
implications for todays decisions
.flexibility and adaptability in strategy RESILIENCE
Horizon Scanning is
.not predicting, but influencing the future
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Horizon Scanning
Why scan? A variety of objectives
Establishing the status quo where are we now?
Trying not to miss the obvious
An external (fresh) perspective
Evidence of change
Evidence of new trends
Sources of discontinuity
Seeking early indicators of change
More detail
Less detail
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C
H
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GE
trends, drivers,
emerging issues
+ - x %
extrapolate, map systems,
assess impacts
scenario 1 scenario 2
scenario 3
scenario n
STRATEGIES
VISION - goals, values -
build on positives, counter negatives
Scanning is the essential
feedstock for all subsequent foresight activities:
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Use of horizon scanning
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Foresight Programme
Sigma and Delta Scans
Land Use Futures
Environment Agency
DSTL
Home Office
Prime Ministers Strategic Futures
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Environment Agency
Defra Baseline Scan
Defra CAP Project
Natural England
British Nuclear Fuels
British defence contractor
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Horizon Scanning: Origins Environmental (horizon) scanning:
Developed by Francis Aguilar, Harvard Business School, in Scanning the Business Environment (New York: MacMillan, 1967).
Widely accepted by business (Jain 1984); linked to competitive intelligence.
Issues management: Fusion of public relations and futures studies -- links to public
policy; Analysis of near-term issues and plans to address them.
Emerging issues analysis: S-curve life-cycle of change (Molitor 1977) Leading ideas, events, authorities/advocates, literature,
organisations, political jurisdictions (bellwether); and economic activity of society (shifts in production mode).
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A typical horizon scanning project
Understand client perspectives
Compilation of existing scanning outputs
Supplementary scanning
Review (workshop)
Classification and Analysis
Synthesis
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Scanning systems require
A way of identifying and gathering information (abstracts)
Breadth of evidence areas and disciplines
A mechanism for analysing information
A process for turning information into opportunity and policy/project
development and identifying risk
The right people (inside and outside the organisation) to be involved
- futures expertise, specific knowledge, challengers
Connections into the business planning process
Integration with strategic decision making
Continuous activity; systemic
Senior endorsement
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Foresight question & context
Profession,
field, market
Organisation
Problem /
question
Politics
Demo-
graphics
Economy
Environ-
ment
Science
Art, play
Technology
Lifestyles
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Life-cycle of Change Life Cycle of Change
Schultz, adapted from Molitor
Dev
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an is
sue
Time
3rd horizon
scientists; artists; radicals; mystics
specialists journals and websites
laypersons magazines; websites; documentaries
newspapers; news magazines; broadcast media
institutions and government
local; few cases; emerging issues
global; multiple dispersed cases; trends and drivers
system limits; problems develop; unintended impacts
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Three Horizons Framework Three Horizons Framework for Layering Change Life-cycles
B Sharp, T Hodgson, A Curry
Pro
min
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vis
ibili
ty)
Horizon 1: The current and near future
Horizon 2: Looking further into the future
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Horizon Scanning + the Three Horizons
Scanning provides a starting point to monitor possible transformative / disruptive changes.
Three Horizons let us organise and consider the interplay of trends and emerging changes.
Uses: Challenge obsolescing assumptions;
Spot emerging constraints/amplifiers;
Get beyond incrementalism.
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Identifying Questions for the Three Horizons Framework
Does the change reinforce current working assumptions and patterns of production and marketing (horizon 1)?
Does the change present completely new paradigms and means to understand and undertake various human activities (horizon 3)?
Does the change identify a transition or accommodation for evolving tensions as current assumptions obsolesce, and transformative changes erupt into possibility (horizon 2)?
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Horizon Scanning: How
1. Identify potential scan sources;
2. Design framework/taxonomy to organise scan data (eg, Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political change, or STEEP);
3. Establish standards to evaluate scan data;
4. Initiate the database with 3-5 state-of-the-art overviews of key issues of change; and
5. Validate entries by structured accrual of confirming data.
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Horizon Scanning: Who
1. Core team (2-3 staff): design, initiate, maintain scanning activities and the database;
2. In-house network: interested staff contributing part-time scanning;
3. External contributors: stakeholders and topical experts; and
4. Links to scanning / foresight efforts internationally by nations and NGOs.
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Core scanning team
Team scan results
EU Scans
OECD Scans
UN Scans
Commonwealth
etc.
Scanning networked internally and to UK stakeholders:
Scanning networked
externally to other commonwealth,
regional, national, and NGO scan
databases.
Stakeholders
Division
Society experts
Technology experts
Economy experts
Politics experts
Environment experts
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Division
Division Division
Division Division
Division
Division
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Identifying Scan Sources
Look for opinion leaders Science, technology, innovation:
Discoveries and innovations Sources where scientists and researchers report
news.
Social and cultural change: Values and ideas Sources where artists, youth, marginalised
communities report news Often fringe publications or media.
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Validating Scan Sources
Distinguish among expert, popular, or fringe sources:
Lancet for medicine: expert;
The Economist for world affairs: popular;
Counterculture for value shifts: fringe.
Establish sources credibility as opinion leaders for their communities:
Citation by community members;
Market niche / branding;
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How to Scan Outside the Box 1. Diversify: Expertise limits -- go outside your
industry or field.
2. Go Global: escape the familiar -- tap another worldview with sources from other countries.
3. History is the Future: look at the past to find the future -- cycles, ideas that finally matured.
4. The Year 2020: search on your issue plus 2020 and see what Google finds.
5. Follow the Futurists: get newsletters from various futures groups to hear their buzz.
Courtesy Future Think LLC, from a presentation by Lisa Bodell.
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6. Join the Dialogue: Look for communities / blogs on your issue(s) and join the discussion / catch the commentary.
7. Go Ahead, Contact Them: email or call a leading thinker or advocate youve identified.
8. Be a Customer: Use a product or service from your clients industry -- get the end-user experience.
9. Advisory Boards: ask an eclectic group for review / input in your scan.
10. Search the Patent Office: whats in the pipeline for development?
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11. Take a Different Route: break your own path habits walking to work.
12. Keep an Idea Journal: discipline yourself to capture your own ideas.
13. Get the Newsletter: sign up for the newsletters of organisations related to your scanning issues.
14. Look at Unrelated Industries: look at everything tangentially linked to your issue, and scan industries in those areas too.
15. Activate your Toolbar: put your favourite sources and blogs in your browsers toolbar and take a quick scan break.
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Gold Standard for Scanning
Evaluating a scan hit (change datum): Subjectively or objectively new? Confirming/reinforcing, or negating/balancing? Time horizon for emergence? Credibility of source?
Ideally, a scan hit identifies an emerging issue that is: objectively new even to experts, confirms or is confirmed by additional scan hits, and that has been identified in time for social dialogue,
impact assessment, and policy formation.
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Approaches to Organising Scan Data
Expert defined: Simple, point of origin: STEEP
Simple, point of impact: VERGE EFF
Emergent: natural agendas
Socially defined: Emergent: folksonomies, or crowd-
sourced classification
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STEEP Society:
Demographics
Lifestyles
Values
Culture
Technology:
Science
Innovations
Basic Research
Health
Economy:
Production
Labour
Trade
Environment:
Biosphere
Geosphere
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Politics:
Governance
Laws & Regulations
Policies
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The processes and technology through which we create goods & services
The goods & services we create, and the ways in which we aquire and use them
Social structures & relationships which link
people and organizations
The concepts, ideas and paradigms we
use to define the world around us
The technologies used to connect
people, places and things
Verge: an EthnoFutures Scanning Framework
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Natural Agenda
Analysing the material Sorted by topic, find megatrends
Topics should derive from the findings
External world, market environment, internal factors
Make it easy for people to dip into Use direct quotes and references
Keep it refreshed Review every six months
What are the impacts? A key part of the Natural Agenda database
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Natural Agendas: eg, UK Health & Safety Executive
External World Economics
Government, politics
Infrastructure
Culture, society
Geography
Market Interface Markets
Competitors/partners
Market segments
Marketing
Internal World
Structure
Culture
Competences
Resources
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Simple Standard Template
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Title Short name for change
Description
Brief narrative description of the change
Impact Brief description of potential impacts
Origin of change? STEEP (social, technological, environmental, economic, political)
Impact? H, M, L
Likelihood? H,M,L
Newness? H,M,L
Source? Web site, paper ref, etc
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Annotation fields
Describing the scan data: Name it: brief, vivid, accurate
Summarise it: a quick description -- if you quote the source, indicate that
Point of origin or emergence: eg, STEEP
Scan source: bibliographic citation
Citation date: when was the source published?
Original research source and date: if the datum was footnoted, cite the original
Credibility: expert, popular media, fringe?
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Annotation fields Analysing the scan data:
Potential impacts: what could it do, to whom? Express as trends, up or down
Relevant impacts: whats important to your issue or client?
What kind of change is this: trend? Event? Cycle? Idea? Triggers and dependencies: what might cause it? What
does it need to grow or accelerate? Indicators: what will signal this trend is either maturing,
or fading? Impact areas: who will feel this trend first? Students?
Elderly? Health institutions? The environment? The communications industry?
Links to other trends: to what other scan data does this trend connect? What pattern or cluster is emerging?
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Annotation fields In-depth impact analysis:
Timing: when is its earliest likely impact? Rate of change: how fast is it maturing? Scope / reach: localised, or global? Point of impact: where is it felt first -- at the individual level,
or at a more aggregated institutional or state level? Certainty: how certain are we that this change will mature? Power: how much transformative power does this have --
does it merely affect externalities, or does it shift worldview? Controversy: how much controversy will it generate? Vulnerability: how prepared are our systems to cope?
Novelty analysis: Objective novelty: is this new even in its own field? Or just
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Validating Scan Data:
Problem: useful scan hits -- close enough to the point of origin to allow policy leverage -- are weak signals; often only one case.
Validation:
Confirmation: accrue multiple citations;
Convergence: monitor emerging scientific consensus; and
Parallax: acquire view from multiple perspectives;
A participatory team approach assists validation.
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Confirm gold standard:
Double-check for objective novelty, impact, timeliness, likelihood, and credibility of the source.
Assure objective standard by layering:
Monitor expert opinion;
Elicit reviews from varied stakeholders;
Evaluate multiple cultural perspectives.
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Visual mapping to gap check example from Defra Baseline Scan
Create a radar diagram depicting your taxonomy over time; plot sources or output to get an immediate visual feel for gaps in sources or data.
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The 7 Questions
The 7 Questions is a useful interview method for acquiring scanning data
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SAMI 7 Questions Developed by Shell and SAMI Consulting Used in the scoping stage Aim is to capture the stakeholder view of the challenges
facing an organisation and its policy objectives An interview technique for stakeholders - but it is also
great for workshops Gets input from senior stakeholders and helps to get
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What are the 7 questions?
1. Clairvoyant critical issue for the future?
2. Optimistic Outcome how develop and signs of success?
3. Pessimistic outcome how deteriorate, threats?
4. Internal situation changes to achieve optimistic outcome?
5. Looking back 10/20 years what has shaped today?
6. Looking forward near term decisions needed?
7. The Epitaph what would you do free from all constraints?
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Preparations before doing 7 Questions
Confirm scope and time scale
Eg, refer to the focal question
Agree who needs to be interviewed
Review standard questions and confirm they are the right ones to use
Decide how to synthesise the results
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Focal Question for today
What could influence the Argentinas Natural and built environment by 2060?
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Exercise 1: Horizon Scanning (1/2)
Divide into four groups of equal size (helpful if at least one group member speaks English)
Brainstorm what you think will be transformative
emerging changes over the next twenty years Write each change on a single post-it Some of you will also have brought interesting
articles or papers with you please share these with the group while brainstorming
Cluster similar changes
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Exercise 1: Horizon Scanning (2/2)
What trends could influence Argentinas natural and built environment by 2060?
Using the Three Horizon / Impact template, sort
your change post-its (or clusters): By timescale first, second, or third horizon, and By level of impact (low to high) on the focal question.
Identify: The three highest impact long-term changes, and The single most surprising change.
Be prepared to share the single most surprising change.
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Template for Exercise 1:
What trends could influence Argentinas natural and built environment by 2060?
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THIRD HORIZON SECOND HORIZON FIRST HORIZON
HIGH IMPACT
LOW IMPACT
HIGH IMPACT
LOW IMPACT
HIGH IMPACT
LOW IMPACT
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Driver Analysis
Strategic drivers are major forces or trends that will shape the future environment within which you operate, e.g. globalisation, demographic change, technology change
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Transactional environment
Organisational
environment
Driving Forces
Driving Forces
Societal
Technological
Economic
Environmental
Political
Drivers of change
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Using the output of driver analysis
Help prioritise trend analysis activities
Identify threats and opportunities and agree how to mitigate/exploit
Policy development
Develop Scenarios
Provide context for doing 7 Questions, Visioning and Road-mapping
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Example of driver Globalizacin - Dominio de China y de India
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Uncertainty of driver of change
High Uncertainty
Outcome 3
outcome 1
Outcome 2
Low Uncertainty
Outcome 3
Outcome 2
Outcome 1
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Impact of a driver of change
Impact on the outcome of the focal question
Depending on the nature of the study can be an organisation, country, policy, section of society etc.
The impacts can take many forms including:
Ability of organisation, country.. etc to succeed
Financial implication e.g. economic growth or profits
Rates of development/change
Futures risks
Changes to society
Climate change
For today it is the impact on:
What could influence Argentinas natural and built environment by 2060?
For the purpose of this exercise you decide and agree as a group
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Prioritising the Drivers for Change Template for Exercise 2
High Impact
Low Impact
Very uncertain
with high
potential impact
High Uncertainty Low Uncertainty
Do not ignore these
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Clustering the prioritised Drivers for Change Template for Exercise 2
High impact
Low impact
High uncertainty Low Uncertainty
Do not ignore these
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Exercise 2: Prioritise and cluster drivers Each group has a deck of change cards
To these, please add your selected items from Exercise 1 (highest impact and most surprising) and any other post-its you think are important
Discuss these and place on impact/uncertainty matrix
Now concentrate on the high-impact / high uncertainty drivers put the rest aside
Try to combine drivers into clusters aim for 5 to 7 clusters
Discuss the clusters and decide which you think are the most important maximum of 3
Report back
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UK Foresight Programme Impacts of Change / Systems Thinking
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The processes and technology through which we create goods & services
The goods & services we create, and the ways in
which we acquire and use them
Social structures & relationships which link
people and organizations
The concepts, ideas and paradigms we use to define the world around us
The technologies used to connect people, places and things
Verge/EFF: A focus on how change affects human systems
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Verge EFF: History Began with frustration with limitations of STEEP
taxonomy
Overly broad - human systems blur STEEP boundaries
STEEP views change from the point of origin
What categories help define our lives as human beings?
Culture points: highlighting key experiences as human beings
Explore change at the point of impact on people and human systems
Still arguing whether Destroy is a key aspect of human experience
Intellectual roots in anthropology, ethnography, and ethnographic futures research (Robert Textor), as well as social impact assessment.
LOTS of people consultants in particular talk about the drivers of change. And theyre usually referring to technology when they do so. I prefer to think about how change happens across the various segments of human experience. Michele Bowman Richard Lum Vision Foresight Strategy LLC
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Futures presentations / workshops by Global Foresight Associates:
About identifying eternal verities around which change swirls Fidelity Bank Price Waterhouse Coopers Massachusetts Department of Education Women in Technology Nissan Motor Company Ford Motor Company Babson College, Boston, Massachusetts
Future presentations / workshops by Infinite Futures: Presidents Panel, American Library Association Singapore Civil Service College
Future presentations / workshops by The Futures Company: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Eurostar
Michele Bowman Global Foresight Associates Wendy L. Schultz Infinite Futures Andrew Curry The Futures Company
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Growth Strategy Group
MTV User Profiles: Social Technologies presented at Trends conference (ask Terry
Grim), The Future of Happiness
Created user profiles for MTVs new customers:
Todays users increasingly pragmatic in pursuit of happiness
User profiles: enabled comparative analysis of details of users lives
Health and Safety Executive Scenarios Provided organizational frame and focus for rich welter of
detail generated by workshop discussions
Enabled detailed comparison across the scenarios on issues critical to stakeholders and policy-makers.
Andy Hines Terry Grim Social Technologies Wendy L. Schultz Infinite Futures
The VERGE framework has
proven extremely valuable at Pitney Bowes in translating thinking about the future into
innovation and strategic decision-making. We've used VERGE in
several invention and strategy contexts to organize and make sense of the changes in the
customer communications environment. ...In addition, the
immediacy of VERGE content provokes leaders to shift strategies ahead of potential disruptive
change, and to see these disruptions as opportunities, not
threats. Christian Crews
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The concepts, ideas and paradigms we use to
define ourselves and the world around us,
including:
Social Values & Attitudes
Scientific Models
Culture
Economic Systems
Religion
Politics & Public Policy
What new concepts, ideas, and paradigms will emerge to help us make sense of the world?
Example: radical biotechnology:
No extinction exists between natural and artificial; highly elastic notions of what human looks like
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Social structures and relationships
which link people and organizations,
including:
Demographics
Family & Lifestyle Groups
Work & Economy
Habitat & Ecosystems
Business Models & Practices
Government
International Relations
Education
How will we live together on planet Earth?
Example: radical biotechnology:
New synthetic ethnicities; some ecosystems treated as living works of
art; international regulatory compacts
to monitor impacts of bio-designs.
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The technologies used to connect people,
places and things, including:
Information Technology
Music
Media
Visual Arts
Language
Space
What arts and technologies will we use to connect people, places, and things?
Example: radical biotechnology:
DNA-based computing possible; gifts of
bio-designed life the new Valentine
bouquets; genetically engineered organic
sculptures
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The processes and technology through which
we produce goods and services, including:
Engineering
Wealth
Manufacturing
Innovation Processes
Life Sciences
Materials Sciences
Nanotechnology
As human beings what will we be inspired to create?
Example: radical biotechnology:
Many new materials manufactured on farms: goats produce proteins, plants produce plastics,
etc.; artificial insects monitor agricultural lands, water quality, etc
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The goods and services we create and the ways
in which we acquire and use them - and destroy
them, including:
Consumer Goods
Energy
Food & Agriculture
House & Home
Entertainment & Leisure
Healthcare
Natural Resources
Touch Points How will we use the earths resources?
Example: radical biotechnology:
More white goods mimic organisms in design: self-repair, communicate to
others of their kind, optimise their intake
/ output of energy and waste.
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Futures Wheels
The Futures wheel is an instrument for graphical visualisation of direct and indirect future consequences of a particular change or development.
It is a structured brainstorming
tool to predict the future of a specific topic or systematically capture the effect of various future developments on each other
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Futures Wheels (Impact Wheels) augmented with Verge Adapted from J Glenn; R Lum
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ISSUE
impact impact
impact impact
impact
Futures (Impact) Wheels: Exploring cascades of change
What are the impacts of change --
and what additional changes
do those impacts create?
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Futures Wheels: Origins Jerome C. Glenn
Invented futures wheels in 1971 as a method for policy analysis and forecasting
Also called Implementation Wheels, Impact Wheels, Mind Mapping, and Webbing.
Reference: Jerome C. Glenn, The Futures Wheel, in The Millennium Project Futures Research Methodology 3.0 (CD)
Joel Barker
Cascade thinking: go out at least three orders of implications to find big surprises
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Enter your assigned change in the inner circle of your worksheet.
Everyone take five minutes by themselves to imagine the possible impacts of this change.
Share your individual lists within your group. Which of these are immediate, or primary, impacts? Immediate primary impacts are the direct caused by the change. Write those down next to the appropriate spoke.
Some of the impacts on your lists may actually be the result of a primary impact, or occur after a primary impact - draw a line from the relevant primary impact, and write the suggested secondary impact in a circle at the end of that line.
Now consider each primary impact, one by one. Brainstorm two or three impacts it will have, and map those, connecting each to its primary impact.
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Priority issues generate impacts that create more change.
ISSUE
impact impact
impact impact
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eg, what are the strongest IMMEDIATE impacts of our example priority issue on policing and police?
impact
Increase in power of citizen activism
impact impact
How could this affect how police define themselves, or who is identified as a peace officer?
How might this transform relationships between police officers and citizens? between officers and communities?
between officers and public officials?
...feel free to draw on information from the petals to suggest specific and vivid impacts...
What impacts might this have on how police communicate amongst themselves? communicate to the
public? what new media?
what new tabus?
impact
impact impact
impact
How might this change how police officers are trained? how policing services are designed?
How might this transform what
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impact impact
impact impact
impact
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impact impact impact impact
impact
impact
impact
Second, consider each impact
youve identified, one at a time.
What strong impacts does each
in turn create? Identify 3-5.
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Exercise 3: Futures Wheels
Each group should pick a provocative change that emerged from the analysis this morning: Place the change in the center of the flipchart. Each member suggest one immediate, significant impact
the change would generate write those around the change.
Now consider the impacts one by one, and for each identify at least two secondary impacts each primary impact would create.
Continue on to third-order impacts if you think of any. What are the two most surprising or transformative
outer-edge impacts that emerge?
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Finally, what happens when impacts from your two priority issues collide? Do some impacts cancel others out? Do some impacts reinforce others?
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Interconnecting Impacts:
Influence Mapping
Describe the relationship between two variables; what do you hear? The more , the more The less , the less Whether a virtuous or vicious cycle, this loop reinforces change.
Or, do you hear this? The more , the LESS
This loop wavers around a goal & maintains the status quo;
it BALANCES change.
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Agenda, December 2
09:30 Scenario Methods 10:30 Exploring Scenarios 11:00 Coffee 11:15 Exercise 4: Exploring scenarios 12:00 Wind-tunnelling 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Exercise 5: Wind Tunnel 14:45 Stakeholder Impacts 15.15 Tea 15:30 Exercise 6: Stakeholder Impact Analysis 16:15 Reflections and follow up 16:30 Close
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CHANGE HAPPENZ
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UK Foresight Programme Scenario Building: Survey of Methods
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What are scenarios
Stories that describe how the world might look in the future
Possible paths to the future
Based on an analysis of drivers of change
Should be engaging, compelling and credible
Must have internal logic and consistency
Allow critical uncertainties and predetermined elements to be separated
Not predictions or forecasts
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Scenarios: imagining difference through structured processes.
Images of alternative possible futures;
Based on trends and emerging issues;
Exploratory, NOT predictive;
Present both opportunities and threats;
Real, NOT ideal;
Used to create contingency plans.
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Effective scenarios. provoke ideas!
Vividly, boldly portray difference;
Clearly identify the time horizon;
Explain how the change unfolded tell the story of trends and impacts growing over time;
Are written in the present tense, as if the future were happening now;
Contain a few transformed elements of the past 2011 to contrast the past with the scenarios present day.
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Why use scenarios?
The future is uncertain
Opportunity to talk about the future together
Offer an inclusive and consultative process
Reflect the views and challenges facing all stakeholders
A neutral space (the future) for discussion
An important tool for organisational learning
Stories are more engaging (than numbers or policy papers) to describe strategic issue; and
Allows detailed analysis blending subjective and objective viewpoints.
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Some benefits of scenarios
Enhance management skills
Framework for strategic thinking and a common language
Provide trigger points for early warning of events
Help organisations to manage risk
Better decisions and flexible response to future possibilities
Help inform research priorities
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no method suits all projects.
Narratives Axes
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2X2 axes of uncertainty
Deductive
Scenario
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Scenario D
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Critical issue: what decision keeps you awake at night?
Local operating environment: what key factors will determine the success or failure of the critical issue?
MACRO environment: what are some of the driving forces creating change in the wider world?
Rank those driving forces by importance and uncertainty: MOST important AND MOST uncertain.
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Scenario Cross example: Scenario Matrix for Global Agro-Seeds, Inc.
Example -- driving forces of change:
Developing World progress; loss of marine biodiversity; trade protectionism;
decreasing water supplies; public confidence in science;
religious/philosophical conflicts; nano-bio-tech convergence.
Choose two most important to you, whose outcomes are most uncertain;
draw axes showing extreme opposite outcomes.
Developing World flourishes
Developing World crashes
Science saves
Science stumbles
broker of national, natural gene stocks
steward of national, natural gene stocks
partner in engineering new exotics from local plant stocks
supplier of high-yield engineered seeds for famine relief
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Select the scenario logics and create the scenario matrix.
Flesh out the scenarios by referring to the key factors, and suggest plausible events that might create that end state.
Implications: how does the decision look in each scenario? -- SWOT analysis.
What might usefully serve as leading indicators or signposts that you are heading toward one or another of these scenarios?
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Create
abstracts Brainstorm Drivers capture on post its
Prioritise drivers
Agree focal issue
(exam question) -
cluster drivers
Choose 2 clusters to
create scenario axes
Develop narratives Private sector pursues
maximum economic growth to
improve environment and
human well-being
Lip service paid to major
policy decisions on sustainable
development
Private sector pursues
maximum economic growth to
improve environment and
human well-being
Lip service paid to major
policy decisions on sustainable
development
Private sector pursues
maximum economic growth to
improve environment and
human well-being
Lip service paid to major
policy decisions on sustainable
development
Private sector pursues
maximum economic growth to
improve environment and
human well-being
Lip service paid to major
policy decisions on sustainable
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The Scenario Cross Method
Designed for strategic insight, focussing on a decision-making goal or challenge
Shorter term futures: time horizon of 10 20 years Critical uncertainties frame a futures landscape Almost complete dependency on getting the axes
right Axes can repeat in the same domain: limits divergence Consistency of tone and purpose across the scenarios:
comparable futures worlds vs homogeneity of language and description
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Narratives
Causal Layered Analysis Scenario Archetypes Corporate Story-telling
Axes
Deductive Scenarios, eg GBN, Shell Trilemma, Oxford Scenarios
Tables
FAR Futures Table Morphological Analysis Scenario Parameter Matrix
Manoa Scenarios Systems Dynamics
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Causal Layered Analysis
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Causal Layered Analysis Designed to integrate different futures perspectives
(empirical, critical, interpretative): open to different ways of knowing (Inayatullah)
Every epistemological layer explored, none privileged Privileged/silenced vs winners/losers Not necessary to get to metaphor layer to build scenarios (but it
helps) Succeeded in creating transformative spaces Litany level created humour Metaphor made new connections
traders and guardians seven generations the mandarin
Resilient to process issues: thoughtful, open, and searching conversation
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Scenario Archetypes
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Scenario Archetypes
Designed to capture common families of images of the future in order to enable incasting
Pre-fab worldviews and frameworks: just add data approach
Requires nuanced understanding of the archetypes Potential for not our story backlash Useful discussions generated when sorting data across the
archetypes: identifies ambiguities where drivers fall across or between boundaries
Tight focus on the research issue (civil society) Logical pattern identification: matching drivers and weak
signals with apposite worldviews ensures internal consistency of scenario
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Designed to maximise evidence-driven difference from the present, in order to challenge assumptions
Focus on turbulence and the dynamics of acceleration and constraint
Surfaces emerging tensions and backlash responses Needs at least three orthogonal changes to drive each
scenario Does not directly address topic (incast later) Impact cascades create clear webs of events - aids drafting
a network future history Cross-impact step addresses boundary spaces where
innovations and threats emerge Energising: creates a playful mood supporting creativity
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Choose three emerging issues from different STEEP categories;
Create futures wheels exploring the impacts of each emerging issue, by a set date (2030);
Create a qualitative cross-impact matrix exploring the interactions of all three emerging issues;
imagine what a day would be like in the future where ALL those changes were real.
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Manoa Approach Example: Three trends for 2025
Three futures wheels: 24/7/365 economy; vigorous aging; and voice and biometric
input/output to computers.
Brainstorm primary, secondary, tertiary impacts for each issue, addressing: government, economic structures, family
life, patterns of work, education and training, arts and leisure, news and media, religion, etc.
24/7/365 more workers needed
Small momnpop shops fail
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Manoa Approach Example: Three trends for 2025
Cross-Impacts: Emerging Issues
24/7/365 economy
Vigorous aging
Voice and biometric input to computers
24/7/365 economy
Vigorous aging
Results of futures wheel
Results of futures wheel
Results of futures wheel
What impacts will vigorous aging have on the 24/7/365 economy?
What impacts will voice and biometric input to computers have on the 24/7/365 economy?
What impacts will the 24/7/365 economy have on vigorous aging?
What impacts will voice and biometric input to computers have on vigorous aging?
What impacts will the 24/7/365 economy have on voice and biometric input to computers?
What impacts will vigorous aging have on voice and biometric input to computers?
Voice and biometric input to computers
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Connecting Impacts Across Futures Wheels
noisy work space
market for great voices
sharp drop in CTS
voice in/out & biometrics
need for hearing filters / augmentation
design of calm infrastructure
more workers needed
24/7/365
momnpop shops fail
more stress
vigorous aging
people work into their 80s
oldsters extreme sportsters
focus on wellness
drop in health care costs
Manoa Approach Example: Three trends for 2025
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SRI Scenario Parameters
Choose variables: Specific critical; uncertain.
Label scenario plots: usually, present trends extended, positive outcomes,
negative outcomes, transformations.
Extrapolate a range of plausible outcomes for each variable.
Sort outcomes into the plot column using the rule of logical consistency.
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Var\Out PTE Up-side
Down-side
Wild Card
Int. rate medium low high negative
Market youth mass specialty green
Tariffs. low none high freeware
Supplies national local global recycled
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FAR Futures
Table Choose variables:
specific critical; uncertain.
Estimate/forecast range of outcomes: present trends extended vs. transformation; or high, medium, low; etc.
Create internally consistent scenarios: identify and resolve impossible pairs; organize by logical relationship.
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Int. rate high medium low
Market luxury green mass youth
Tariffs. none low medium high
Supplies local national regional global
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Morphological Analysis
Often used for complicated multi-variable systems: Economic and policy analyses, eg, Singapores
Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning System (using purpose-built software)
Environmental and social analyses (UK National Ecosystem Assessment Scenarios, using Parmenides Foundations EIDOS)
Allows greater complexity of analysis, but at greater cost
Complex output often more difficult to communicate
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Another futures table approach Makes use of computer-assisted
evaluation of variable output: one-stop shopping foresight from scanning to strategy
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Images of the future: a continuum of infinite possibilities
all possible images of the future
dystopias nightmares
utopias visions scenarios:
downside
scenarios: PTE
scenarios: upside
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Existing images of alternative futures: sources
Individuals what do people think? e.g., Surveys, Ethnographic Futures Research, etc.
Culture... what do religions imply? political ideologies? what do artists imagine? writers? advertisers? other artifacts? Content analysis; hermeneutic analysis, etc.
Forecasts what trends have researchers extrapolated? what scenarios have futurists built? Secondary analysis of existing research and data.
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Exploring Scenarios
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Background and scope
Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills formed in 2007
New Minister wanted to use scenarios to test validity of legacy policies and generate new ideas
Most policies predicated on a single view of the world, leaving the department vulnerable
First 5 months of project spent defining the scope and galvanising support
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Scenarios development summary
8 month process involving (at varying levels) 10 Govt departments, 13 other organisations and a number of individual experts and stakeholders
Workshops (3) Interviews (12) Online brainstorm (247 respondents) Stakeholder group meetings (Director General/Director or
Chief Executive level) Expert group meetings (Government analysts, social
scientists, futurists) Research programme Prosperity work with Treasury
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Scenarios scoping
Early scoping work indicated four big issues that could significantly impact on UK government industrial policies:
1. Globalisation open or closed world
2. Development of emerging economies (BRICs)
3. Social values
4. Resource constraints (natural and human)
Of these, using globalisation and social values as axes gave the most useful scenarios but all four issues are major features of the scenarios
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Collectivist Individualistic
Social Values
Scenarios the grid
Perpetual Motion Shaken Open
Protective Collective Self-Service
Open, multilateral
Closed, unilateral/bilateral
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Collectivist Individualistic
Social Values
Scenarios the grid
Movimiento continuo Colectivo abierto
Proteccionista Colectivo Auto-servicio
Open, multilateral
Closed, unilateral/bilateral
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Scenarios Perpetual Motion (Movimiento continuo)
Short-term
Economic downturn
Rapid recovery
Medium-term
High growth
Opening markets
Rising inequalities
Long-term
Volatility and inequality accepted
Social fragmentation; individual solutions
Perpetual
Motion Shaken Open
Self-Service Protective
Collective
Open
Closed
Individual Collective
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Free trade Open markets
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Rise of
China &
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Interconnected
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Insecurity &
surveillance
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Short-term
Major long-lasting world-wide recession
Medium-term
Bottom-up action to assist those hardest hit
Return to economic growth and opening markets though more regulated and ethical
Long-term
Major humanitarian crisis in Africa
Shift towards more global values and focus on equity
Scenarios Shaken Open (Colectivo abierto)
Perpetual Motion Shaken Open
Self-Service Protective
Collective
Open
Closed
Collective Individual
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Collectives
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Scenarios Self-Service (Auto-servicio)
Short-term Global economic downturn
Medium-term Trade wars and
protectionism UK forced to follow suit
painful economic restructuring
Lost of trust in official solutions
Long-term People turn inwards
looking after themselves and their families
Power shifts downwards
Perpetual Motion Shaken Open
Self-Service Protective
Collective
Open
Closed
Collective Individual
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Local
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Division & inequality
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Resource constraints innovative response
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Scenarios Protective Collective (Proteccionista Colectivo)
Short-term
Global economic downturn
Medium-term
Trade wars and protectionism
UK forced to follow suit painful economic restructuring
People pull together rise of Britishness
Long-term
Nation state dominant web of alliances and bilateral deals
UK: self-sufficiency ideal; nationalism
Perpetual Motion Shaken Open
Self-Service Protective
Collective
Open
Closed
Collective Individual
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Scenarios Summary of key features
Perpetual Motion Shaken Open
Protective Collective Self-Service
Open
Closed
Collective Individual
Global free markets
Mosaic of self-reliant individuals
Export-driven emerging economies grow
rapidly, competing with West
Deep pockets of poverty
Open markets in resources, though market
failures occur
Strongly-regulated global economy
Strong collective identities
Export-driven emerging economies grow
rapidly, collaborating with West
Moderate inequality high redistribution
State intervention in resource provision
Market barriers and strong nations
Strong collective identity within the UK
Resource-rich emerging economies grow in
power
Low inequality within the UK
Access to resources is constrained, with high
state intervention and rationing
Market barriers and protectionism
Competitive individuals, strong families
Resource-rich emerging economies grow in
wealth
Moderate inequality within UK
Access to resources is constrained, with local
adaptation and pricing mechanisms
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Situaciones - Resumen de caractersticas
Abierto
Cerrado
Colectivo Individual
Movimiento continuo Libre mercado a escala mundial Mosaico de individuos independientes Economas emergentes impulsadas por las exportaciones crecen rpidamente, compitiendo con el Occidente Grandes focos de pobreza Mercados abiertos en recursos aunque se presentan fallos de Mercado
Colectivo abierto Economa mundial fuertemente reglamentada Fuerte identidad colectiva Economas emergente impulsadas por las exportaciones crecen rpidamente, colaborando con Occidente Desigualdad moderada- una alta tasa de redistribucin Intervencin del Estado en obtencin de recursos
Proteccionista Colectivo Barreras de mercado y naciones fuertes Fuerte identidad colectiva dentro de Argentina Economas emergentes ricas en recursos aumentan su poder Desigualdad baja dentro de Argentina Acceso a recursos es limitado, con una alta intervencin estatal y racionamiento
Self-Service (Auto-servicio) Barreras de mercado y proteccionismo Individuos competitivos, gran unin familiar/ familias fuertes Economas emergentes ricas en recursos crecen en prosperidad/ riqueza Desigualdad moderada dentro de Argentina Acceso a recursos es limitado, con adaptaciones locales y mecanismo de fijacin de precios 169 SAMI Consulting www.samiconsulting.co.uk
Exercise 4: exploring scenarios
Your group has been assigned a scenario
What is Argentina like in this scenario?
How is it managing and using its natural environment?
How is it designing and managing its built environment?
Who are key players?
What are some tough decisions facing government?
What are some headlines re: government policy or business initiatives for the environment in 2030?
Create a front page for an Argentinean newspaper.
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Futures and Foresight Wind-Tunnelling & Stakeholder Analysis
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Wind Tunnelling
Introduction to the technique and exercise brief
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Windtunnelling
Test robustness of objectives/policies against different scenarios
Explore ways to optimise future success
Help to identify future risks
Challenge official view of the future
Create an environment for open debate on options
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Windtunnelling typical steps
The process
Develop scenarios, or work with suitable existing ones
Identify the objective/policy/desired outcome to be tested
Examine how the external conditions described in each scenario affect delivery of the desired outcome
Identify the implications for strategy implementation
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Orange SCENARIO
Blue SCENARIO
Green SCENARIO
Yellow SCENARIO
Wind Tunnelling Analytic Approach
Policy
Option
1
Policy
Option
2
Policy
Option
3
Implications Success Failure Contingent on
scenario
Action Plans Do Now Reject Monitor future
events &
Contingency
Planning
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Example template/approach Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3 Scenario 4
Goal/
objective 1 ? X
Goal/
objective 2 X
Goal/
objective 3 X X X ?
Goal/
objective 4 X X
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= needs modification
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Case Study Tackling Obesity Anticipate & prepare
React & mitigate
Socia
l responsib
ility
first
Indiv
idual re
sponsib
ility
firs
t
Scenario 1
Vocal consumers drive for
business to lead change,
with a focus on long-term
strategies and preparation for change
Scenario 4
Individuals prioritise short-
term value maximisation
and leave the market to
balance any shifts in the resource system
Scenario 3
Society seeks consensus and
collective action to deliver
flexibility and react to the issue
of the day
Scenario 2
Belief in wider social
responsibility, and the
importance of future challenges
drives long-term preparedness and adaptive behavioural
change
Source: Tackling Obesity Main Report
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Windtunnelling impacts Response Options (the built
environment and transport)
Scenario
1
Scenario
2
Scenario
3
Scenario
4
1. Introduce health as a significant
criterion in all planning procedures
(including new build and upgrading
of the current infrastructure)
MEDIUM
IMPACT
HIGH
IMPACT
LOW
IMPACT
NO
IMPACT
2. Improve the perceptions of
safety from the points of view of
traffic and crime
NO
IMPACT
LOW
IMPACT
LOW
IMPACT
NO
IMPACT
3. Increase the walkability and cyclability of the built environment (urban and rural)
MEDIUM
IMPACT
MEDIU
M
IMPACT
MEDIU
M
IMPACT
LOW
IMPACT
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Case Study Outcome The top five policy responses assessed as having the
greatest average impact on levels of obesity across the scenarios were: 1. Increasing walkability/cyclability of the built environment 2. Targeting health interventions for those at risk 3. Controlling the availability of/exposure to obesogenic
foods and drinks 4. Increasing the responsibility of organisations for the
health of their employees 5. Early life interventions at birth or in infancy
These have now been included in the department's new health strategy)
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Exercise 5: Wind Tunnel Decide aims to be tested
Wind tunnel the aim timeline to use is 2030 Think about:
whether the outcome is still achievable and desirable
whether the aim needs to be modified in any way
how the desired outcome should be achieved in this scenario
how the current strategy for delivery needs to be modified.
Output: populated Wind tunnelling template
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Stakeholder Impact Analysis
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Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Analyse how different scenarios will impact on
stakeholders
Stakeholder is anyone or any group of people
likely to be affected by scenarios
Process will highlight strategic choices to be made
Helps to see policies from other peoples perspective
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Exercise 6: Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Study the scenarios Use Stakeholder Impact Analysis matrix to determine how
scenarios will affect stakeholder groups in each scenario: 1. The owner of a ranch 2. Buenos Aires city planners 3. CEO of manufacturing company 4. Head of a global environmental organisation
Score from +5 (positive impact) to -5 (negative impact)
Key output: by end of session, syndicates have identified the impact on major stakeholder groups
Plenary session: summary of key issues; feedback on the process
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Stakeholder impact analysis (example from previous event)
Table Group:
Stakeholder Group: Impact Analysis Score
Perpetual Motion
Global free markets
Mosaic of individuals
Deep pockets of poverty
Exporting BRICs grow and compete
Self-Service
Market barriers and protectionism
Competing individuals, strong families
Moderate inequalities in UK
Resource-rich countries grow in wealth
Shaken Open
Regulated global economy
Strong collective identities
Moderate global inequality
Exporting BRICs grow and collaborate
Protective Collective
Market barriers and strong nations
Strong collective Britishness identity
Low inequality in UK
Resource-rich countries grow in power
Higher inequality & Pension Provision
Social tension but better collaboration
Heath - diversity of provision
Ostracising different communities
Child (urban setting)
2 for rich
-5 for poor
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Stakeholder impact analysis
Group:
Stakeholder Class: Impact Analysis Score
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Self-Service Auto-servicio
Protective Collective Proteccionista Colectivo
Shaken Open Colectivo abierto
Perpetual Motion Movimiento continuo
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Summary
Future driven by trends and uncertainties
What can we control?
Strategy should take into account different possible outcomes
We can influence the future to a certain degree
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