A personal online learning story

university under the blue sky

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 past. So, I was excited to finally make the [...]

“Future Proofing” – our quest for future certainty

woman at desk

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 about major forces ‘that will fundamentally shift much of what we take for granted about [...]

Toss our the planning rulebooks

Word Cloud "Strategic Planning"

I read an interesting post from Herman Trend Alerts last week on Creativity – the Most Crucial Factor for Leadership Success. Right at the end was this phrase: Continuous Strategic Planning will be an ongoing process, rather than an annual one, so that the organization may respond to fast changing market conditions. Now, I don’t [...]

The Future of Design and Design Thinking

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The Association of Professional Futurists next #futrchat will be held on Thursday, 21 July at 4:00-5:00pm ET, 9pm BST, Friday 6:00am Sydney. The topic is the future of design. A big one, but an important one when interpreted broadly. During 2010, a colleague – Elizabeth Rudd of FutureNous – and I did some work on [...]

Connecting Minds 3: Post WFS Conference

I have attended my first World Future Society conference, and I have to say, I think it will be my last. Not because there is anything wrong with it, but like most conferences I attend, I learned nothing new. Perhaps I should not expect to? As many people said to me, the conference is better [...]