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Constructing a Course on the Future: A Professional Brainstorm

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9 Box or other similar sorting tool to determine whether the trend has implications for a given organization

Assessed and managed web based, learner centric interactive multimedia instruction for access globally.

Assumption based Planning & Intro to scenario methodologies

Audacious goals

Backcasting (personal futures)

Basic skills in Institutional Communication / Public Relations / Ethical Guidelines

Basic techniques - futures wheels, brainstorming

Brainstorming

Brainstorming / Writing / Critical Thinking Skills

Causal Layered Analysis

Computer assisted tools such as that sold by Joel Barker

Computer Modeling

Creative problem solving

Critical reflection on film images of the future

Critical review after data collection (rather than during collection -- keeping the 'filters' open)

Cross impact analysis

Cross-Impact Matrices

Data Interpretation

Delphi

Delphi and experts panels

Delphi Methods

Delphi Surveys

Delphi Technique

Discussing

Environmental Scanning

Environmental Scanning (STEEP)

Exploration of Science-Fiction

Extrapolation

Flexibility/Innovation Analysis

Flow Charting

Forecasting & Trends

Forecasting Lessons from the Study of History (Cycles, Levers of Change, etc.)

Forecasts

Foresight Frameworks (Educational and Research Frameworks) - A Global Survey

Future-Oriented Information Retrieval  (relevant sources, specialists, institutions, tools, etc.)

Futures "Markets" (InValue, etc.)

Futures triangle

Futures Wheels

Futures Wheels/Cross Impacts -- something that nurtures seeing and thinking and acting as if relatedness across space and time is real.

Games

Gap Analysis

Gathering "tools" -- e.g., content analysis

Group dynamics / conduct

Historical/Defining Moments Analysis

Horizon scanning -- practical exercises

How to think like a futurist (RE: Peter Bishop's work)

Implications or Futures Wheel

Inquiry

Inspirational Reading (quotations, literary texts, artworks of all kinds, historical pieces, etc.)

Integral foresight

Issue Analysis

Jerry Glenn's Millennium Project futures tools CD as an initial content source.

Letter from the future

Listening to your own internal dialogue - understanding how it 'colors' experience and limits truth

Mapping Trends

MBTI or Learning styles or Gender analysis -- something that helps them see, relativize, and  transcend the eyes with which they habitually see the world.

Mind Mapping

Modeling

Narrative or story telling

Object or substance morphing

Organized Thinking and Discernment

Panels and workshops

Planning

Possible Futures Methods (Primary)

Preferable Futures Methods (Primary)

Probable Futures Methods (Primary)

Provision through Google Translation for presentation in as many languages as good translation exists.

Real World Projects

Research

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)

Roadmapping technology

Scanning

Scanning of the Futures Literature

Scanning techniques

Scenario building

Scenario Building (Schwartz/GBN approach)

Scenario development (separate from planning)

Scenario Planning

Scenario planning -- workshop

Scenarios

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.

Secondary FS Methods. See http://futuresphd.wetpaint.com/page/Futures+Studies+Frameworks for ASF's Primary and Secondary 3P's Futures Framework

Simulation and Games

Social networking and collaboration

Social networking and collaboration using the www or web 2.0++

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.

Stories

Strategic Forecasting

Strategic forecasting in an industry sector

Strategic planning

Survey Instruments

Surveying

Synergy developing tools - cross impact matrices

Systems mapping and analysis

The art of observation - tracking behavior with no context attached - <this comes before #1 in this section>

The use of different methods for a future exercise

THROW OUT ALL THE STD FUTURES TECHNIQUES SUCH AS DELPHI, ETC

Trend Analysis

Trend analysis  -- through an organizational case study

Trend, Issue Analysis

Understanding mythology - using Joseph Campbell as a guide

Use of different methods

Virtual worlds such as SL

Vision

Visioning

Weak Signal Detection

Webbing

Widespread scanning -- using everyone in and outside the organization as a "boundary spanner"

Wildcards & Cascading Discontinuity Sets

TOOLS -
Constructing a Course on the Future: A Professional Brainstorm

A  list posted April 17, 2008 -

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