Like many large organisations and consultancies, the EU’s JRC maintains and monitors a list of megatrends. In their case they have identified fourteen in their “Megatrends Hub”. Although mostly these…
Category: Futures
Drivers of change – on fast-forward?
We’ve noticed recently how SAMI’s six Drivers of Change seem to be super-charged, on fast-forward. We identified the major areas of change some years ago and still think they are…
Widening Your Stakeholder Analysis
A good stakeholder analysis has always been an important part of policy or strategy development, especially in the area of futures thinking. Understanding whose interests to take into account, their…
Software resilience and security - BCS view
BCS (the Chartered Institute for IT, formerly the British Computer Society) has recently answered a “Call for views on software resilience and security for businesses and organisations” from the Department…
The future of water – fertile futures
One of the critical challenges that the climate crisis brings is managing scarce resources, most notably water. Droughts, storms and floods are all expected to increase in all global warming…
Cut+Paste at The Crick Institute
We have had Biotechnology as one of SAMI’s main global Drivers of Change for many years. The invention of the genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9, which won its inventors the Nobel…