...moving beyond the status-quo
The number of news and blog items about the imminent disruption of higher education are increasing daily. Today I read three in the space of an hour: The Reimagining of Higher Education, The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling as We Speak, and The Stanford Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever. Yet, it’s not as though [...]
My last blog post was about this graphic I am playing around with to show what foresight ‘is’. I work with people in organisations, so what I write here is with that in mind. It occurred to me, in one of those ‘duh’ moments, that I’m missing something right at the start – our brains. [...]
Talking to people about foresight is a double-edged sword. Usually, people recognise the word but not the sense in which I am using it. When I explain it, some ‘get it’, while others maintain what I call the ‘glazed eye syndrome’. It’s an important term to understand because without foresight, we have no chance to [...]
This is the final in a series about doing environmental scanning. In the previous five posts, we’ve discussed focusing your scanning, setting up your scanning team, how to start scanning, recording what you are finding and analysing your scanning output. This sixth post is about reporting your scanning findings within your organisation. This is a [...]
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 needs to be high quality, not the tick the box kind of conversation that often happens in [...]
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