...spreading the word about the value of foresight today
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 [...]
This is part 5 in the Doing Environmental Scanning series. We’ve identified the strategic questions, set up a team, started scanning and have been recording hits and seeing patterns among them. At this stage, you have started to identify trends and you can see some interdependencies among those trends. What does it all mean? When [...]
Okay, you have your focus, the scanning team is in place, your keywords are decided, and you’ve started to scan. How do you keep track of what you are finding? At its simplest, you can use your computer’s folder system to store copies of documents, and a social bookmarking site like delicious or diigo to [...]
The first two posts in the Doing Environmental Scanning series were on focusing your scanning and who should be on the scanning team. This post is about starting to scan – taking those first steps to explore what’s ‘out there’. Remember that you are probably already scanning the environment in an undirected sense, particularly around your industry and [...]
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