Strategic foresight, futures methodology and practice
Still recovering somewhat from a thoroughly nasty run-in with a guy named Wolf, on an on-line list about future vision for enterprise-architecture. (For obvious legal reasons, I’d probably better not give any more details than that.) To give some idea, …
A great conversation last week with IT-strategy consultant Chris Potts of Dominic Barrow ( http://www.dominicbarrow.com/ ), who’s also a regular columnist for CIO.com, an online magazine for CIOs. In terms of his position on the role of enterprise architecture, in …
Continuing the fixups from my mildly embarrassing blunder with e-book downloads on Tetradian Books – looks like I didn’t get it right that time either. 🙁 Looks like it may have been a case of Read The Fine Manual… oops. …
Just discovered, courtesy of a much-appreciated comment from John Gøtze, that my e-book download-links in Tetradian Books weren’t working properly. Or rather, they were, but only for ‘right click and save’, not for simple click, which is what I’d written. …
(Yeah, I know – way too long between posts – sorry…) “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” – an article from Wired that’s interesting from a number of perspectives: business, futures, society, and my own rather odd concern …
One of the canons of current futures studies is the need for participatory engagement of the stakeholders – in other words the people who are likely to be affected by any major decisions. So it’s heartening to see that the …
Whilst doing the usual web-trawls for a correspondent, was delighted to discover that Common Ground have put their classic Rules for Local Distinctiveness up as a specific page on their website, as well as the poster which can be ordered …
Somewhat belatedly, I checked the Journal of Futures Studies copyright rules, and discovered I do have dual-copyright on the ‘Stealth Foresight’ article. So I’ve placed a copy up on the Tetradian site, at http://www.tetradian.com/download/stealthforesight-final-nov07.pdf [PDF, 144kb] Share and enjoy? 🙂
Was delighted the other day to receive some copies of the current Journal of Futures Studies, with my essay Stealth Foresight for Innovation: creating support for creative change in large organisations in Australia. Looks good: formal cite is ‘Journal of …
A bit disappointed that I had to miss the AusForesight conference again, but Dominique Jaurola has posted a useful summary of what went on. The futures scene does seem to be coming together in Australia – the main limitation is …