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Box or other similar sorting tool to determine whether the trend has
implications for a given organization |
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Assessed
and managed web based, learner centric interactive multimedia instruction
for access globally. |
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Assumption
based Planning & Intro to scenario methodologies |
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Audacious
goals |
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Backcasting
(personal futures) |
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Basic
skills in Institutional Communication / Public Relations / Ethical
Guidelines |
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Basic
techniques - futures wheels, brainstorming |
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Brainstorming |
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Brainstorming
/ Writing / Critical Thinking Skills |
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Causal
Layered Analysis |
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Computer
assisted tools such as that sold by Joel Barker |
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Computer
Modeling |
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Creative
problem solving |
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Critical
reflection on film images of the future |
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Critical
review after data collection (rather than during collection -- keeping the
'filters' open) |
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Cross
impact analysis |
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Cross-Impact
Matrices |
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Data
Interpretation |
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Delphi |
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Delphi
and experts panels |
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Delphi
Methods |
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Delphi
Surveys |
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Delphi
Technique |
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Discussing |
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Environmental
Scanning |
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Environmental
Scanning (STEEP) |
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Exploration
of Science-Fiction |
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Extrapolation |
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Flexibility/Innovation
Analysis |
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Flow
Charting |
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Forecasting
& Trends |
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Forecasting
Lessons from the Study of History (Cycles, Levers of Change, etc.) |
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Forecasts |
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Foresight
Frameworks (Educational and Research Frameworks) - A Global Survey |
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Future-Oriented
Information Retrieval (relevant
sources, specialists, institutions, tools, etc.) |
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Futures
"Markets" (InValue, etc.) |
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Futures
triangle |
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Futures
Wheels |
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Futures
Wheels/Cross Impacts -- something that nurtures seeing and thinking and
acting as if relatedness across space and time is real. |
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Games |
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Gap
Analysis |
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Gathering
"tools" -- e.g., content analysis |
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Group
dynamics / conduct |
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Historical/Defining
Moments Analysis |
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Horizon
scanning -- practical exercises |
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How
to think like a futurist (RE: Peter Bishop's work) |
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Implications
or Futures Wheel |
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Inquiry |
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Inspirational
Reading (quotations, literary texts, artworks of all kinds, historical
pieces, etc.) |
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Integral
foresight |
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Issue
Analysis |
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Jerry
Glenn's Millennium Project futures tools CD as an initial content source. |
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Letter
from the future |
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Listening
to your own internal dialogue - understanding how it 'colors' experience
and limits truth |
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Mapping
Trends |
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MBTI
or Learning styles or Gender analysis -- something that helps them see,
relativize, and transcend the
eyes with which they habitually see the world. |
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Mind
Mapping |
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Modeling |
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Narrative
or story telling |
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Object
or substance morphing |
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Organized
Thinking and Discernment |
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Panels
and workshops |
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Planning |
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Possible
Futures Methods (Primary) |
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Preferable
Futures Methods (Primary) |
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Probable
Futures Methods (Primary) |
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Provision
through Google Translation for presentation in as many languages as good
translation exists. |
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Real
World Projects |
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Research
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Researching
with the practitioner in mind - so it is useful and applicable (as opposed
to the academic who pushes theory but cannot apply it in useful manner) |
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Roadmapping
technology |
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Scanning |
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Scanning
of the Futures Literature |
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Scanning
techniques |
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Scenario
building |
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Scenario
Building (Schwartz/GBN approach) |
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Scenario
development (separate from planning) |
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Scenario
Planning |
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Scenario
planning -- workshop |
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Scenarios |
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Scenarios
creation (do not call it "scenario planning".)
This helps them "get it" that the normal assumption of
their own (and every) culture -- that while there will be changes, they
really face an essentially familiar future in which their present identity
is still largely intact -- is understandable, but quite wrong and
wrong-headed. |
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Secondary
FS Methods. See http://futuresphd.wetpaint.com/page/Futures+Studies+Frameworks
for ASF's Primary and Secondary 3P's Futures Framework |
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Simulation
and Games |
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Social
networking and collaboration |
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Social
networking and collaboration using the www or web 2.0++ |
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Some
form of causal layered analysis -- to get them to see under the surface to
the formation, embodiment and evolution of the deep structures and roots
of the human imagination/consciousness. |
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Stories |
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Strategic
Forecasting |
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Strategic
forecasting in an industry sector |
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Strategic
planning |
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Survey
Instruments |
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Surveying |
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Synergy
developing tools - cross impact matrices |
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Systems
mapping and analysis |
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The
art of observation - tracking behavior with no context attached - <this
comes before #1 in this section> |
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The
use of different methods for a future exercise |
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THROW
OUT ALL THE STD FUTURES TECHNIQUES SUCH AS DELPHI, ETC |
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Trend
Analysis |
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Trend
analysis -- through an
organizational case study |
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Trend,
Issue Analysis |
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Understanding
mythology - using Joseph Campbell as a guide |
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Use
of different methods |
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Virtual
worlds such as SL |
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Vision |
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Visioning |
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Weak
Signal Detection |
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Webbing
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Widespread
scanning -- using everyone in and outside the organization as a
"boundary spanner" |
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Wildcards
& Cascading Discontinuity Sets |
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