Using futures approaches underpins the design of successful organisational strategy that is robust into the future. The Building Strategic Futures guides will help you and your organisation integrate the future into your decision making today.
Why would I bother writing these guides? When I started out in the futures field in 1999, I didn’t know too much at all about futures work – well, to be honest, I knew nothing! It was a new field for me, and I was lucky enough to be able to spend some time exploring it and learning how it can be used in organisations. I was quickly convinced of its value in helping to ensure organisational sustainability in the future.
But, we all don’t have the luxury of that time available to us, particularly as the complexity and demands of our work increase daily. The Building Strategic Futures guides provide the foundation you need to get started using futures approaches in your work.
The guides provide enough information to get you going. They give you the fundamentals which you can customise for your organisation. If you need more than the guides provide, get in touch and we can talk about how I can help you get started a little more quickly.
Find out more and download the guides for free by following the links below, and please get in touch in you have any questions.
Maree Conway
Thinking Futures
Using Futures Approaches: a guide to getting started (2007)
Describes the ‘must-do’ steps you need to take to set up an effective organisational futures program.
Environmental Scanning: what it is and how to do it (2009)
A step by step guide to setting up and running an environmental scanning system in your organisation.
Guides Coming Soon
Developing Your Strategic Thinking Capacity
Moving beyond the busyness syndrome to find the time to think strategically.
Writing a Futures Focused Strategic Plan
Writing meaningful plans that focus on and measure what really matters for the future of your organisation.
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