The 1970’s classic volume Limits to Growth has influenced futurists and policy makers for a generation. Recently the assumptions in the computer model behind the conclusions, and the conclusions themselves,…
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Alternative Future Views
This summer saw the publication of an interesting range of futures work, with different approaches and perspectives. OECD: Global Scenarios 2035: exploring implications for the future of global collaboration and…
A world of few children
This blog first appeared, in July 2021, as a Pamphleteer in the Long Finance series, https://www.longfinance.net/news/pamphleteers/world-few-children/. Demographers are starting to talk about global population decline, with alarm. Why is it…
Beyond Resilience
In recent posts (here, here and here) we have looked at building corporate or government “resilience” as a way of dealing with the unexpected. Throughout these analyses, it seemed that…
How scenario planning informs strategy
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…
Foresight training, action learning and more…….
As the pandemic unfolded last year and the world of work shifted, we wanted to support our clients in new ways. This led us to explore a range of possibilities…