How Thinking Futures Helps You…

Maree Conway runs Thinking Futures, a strategic foresight practice focused on helping you move beyond the status-quo to shape your organisation’s future today.

Maree works with you to find the thinking space to critically interpret and find meaning in the complexity of the trend ecosystem that is the external operating environment, and to use that understanding to inform your strategic responses and action today.

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Strategy

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“Future Proofing” – our quest for future certainty

There's an article in the May 2011 issue of Strategy Magazine from the Strategic Planning Society called Making the shift: why the future of work is here now, written by Lynda Grattan from the London Business School (full reference below). It talks … Read More...

Using Futures Approaches

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So, how do you actually go about implementing a futures approach in your university or organisation? There needs to be overt recognition in the organisation that systematically considering the future as part of strategy … Read More...

Foresight Methods

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Deepening the Conversation

The nub of foresight work is conversation that lets people better understand what is happening 'out there' in the external environment so they can respond today to ensure their organisation survives in to the future. However, the conversation … Read More...

Rethinking Strategic Planning

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Most people talk about strategic planning as if it was the whole game, encompassing everything from thinking about the future, decision making, documenting plans, and then monitoring and reporting on those plans.  But, strategic planning is not … Read More...

Higher Education

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A personal online learning story

It was a sad day for me yesterday. I decided to withdraw from a professional doctorate in higher education after about 8 weeks. I started a tradtional PhD a while ago, but withdrew from that because of a whole range of factors, best left to the … Read more...

Integral Futures

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An integral approach to futures work attempts to 'honour all truths and acknowledge the value of many different ways of knowing across all significant fields' (Richard Slaughter, Futures Beyond Dystopia (2004), page 152). Joseph Voros writes: … Read More...