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Author: Jonathan Blanchard Smith

Engaging senior teams
6 May 2022in Decision making, Foresight, Futures0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

Engaging senior teams

At SAMI, we work with colleagues in the foresight community through training (whether in our courses or through our advanced “Cohort” action learning team) and within our client engagements. One…

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The future of AI
8 April 2022in Foresight, Futures, Technology, Trends0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

The future of AI

This is a much-edited version of a presentation given at APEC’s recent “Industry 4.0: Enabling Technologies and Inclusive Digitization for Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery in APEC Value Chains” online conference.…

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EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: MENA
10 March 2022in Foresight, Futures, Scenarios, Trends0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: MENA

The latest in our series based on SAFIRE, a proposed system using foresight to develop policy for Research and Innovation relationships for the EU, is a review of the Middle…

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Opportunities and risks for 2022
16 December 2021in Foresight, Futures, Trends0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

Opportunities and risks for 2022

This week’s blog post captures the results of an online workshop session of SAMI Principals, brainstorming potential radical events in 2022. We worked through a basic PESTLE format to generate…

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Everyone for themselves – the world after COP26
13 December 2021in Climate change, Futures, Policy making0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

Everyone for themselves – the world after COP26

COP26 concluded on 12 November. Since then, we have seen quick takes, considered reviews, relief and anger. Too little has been done; too much has been done. The ground has…

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COP26 – Goal Four: Averting disaster?
1 November 2021in Climate change, Futures, Policy making, Scenarios1by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

COP26 – Goal Four: Averting disaster?

We examined the first three goals for COP26 in previous blogposts. We concluded that Goal 1 (the climate goal proper) was too little, delivered too slowly. Goal 2, we said,…

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