Many organisations still don’t employ scenario planning to explore alternative futures, articulate risks and inform strategy. The following simple and topical example was recently created for a business school programme…
Category: Policy making
The Ministry of Mad er… Stuff.
On May 26 this year, The Times’ feature writer Janice Turner posted a rather thought provoking tweet. Since our last three blogs have been focussed on almost exactly this (here,…
EU paper on AI - Critique
Last week, the European Commission proposed a European approach to AI. To gauge the utility of the stated approach, what better benchmarks to reference than the ‘proposed key actions’ outlined…
The Future of AI UK: Alan Turing Institute
Hosted over two days and across two alternative stages, the Alan Turing Institute hosted AI UK; a tour d’horizon from the brightest and best that the Institute had to offer…
What are the futures for world trade?
“Globalisation is dead.” It is argued that the rise of populism, and its two most obvious successes – the Trump administration and Brexit – have proved it. “America First”, claimed…
Vaccine nationalism?
Nine months ago I wrote an article for the Journal of Future Studies looking at four alternative post pandemic scenarios. This was also later carried on the SAMI website. Although…