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Futuring is a critical tool in
business design and innovation
management.
Yin and Yang of Futuring
Yin: Adaptive futuring:
anticipation, forecasting,
fitting in
Yang: Proactive futuring:
creating future, creating new
trends, blue oceans,
world-changing/disruptive
mega-innovation. Tools: Innompic
Games
Adaptive Futuring is the
practice of envisioning,
anticipating, and planning for
potential futures, often through
a systematic process that
includes analysis, exploration,
forecasting, and simulation.
Futures thinking
Highersight
Mega-Innovation
InnoBall
Proactive Futuring
"The quote "The best way to
predict your future is to create
it" is attributed to Abraham
Lincoln. It implies that
proactively working towards your
vision or goals and shaping your
circumstances can influence the
outcome of your future."
Examples: Innompic Games as a
civilizational breakthrough;
Creation of BRICS currency
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"Futuring
By leveraging data-driven insights about what could
happen in the future, futuring helps organizations
anticipate change and shape their strategies
accordingly. It can be used to inform decision
making across multiple areas such as product
development, customer experience design, marketing
strategies, resource allocation, and organizational
culture.
At its core, futuring involves understanding the
potential consequences of existing trends or
decisions so that proactive actions can be taken to
maximize outcomes. To do this effectively requires
careful consideration of both short-term impacts
(i.e., what will happen tomorrow) as well as
long-term implications (i.e., what could happen
years down the line). The goal is not necessarily to
predict the exact future but rather to develop
possible “what if” scenarios that can provide
valuable insight into how best to respond or plan
ahead in order to remain competitive or create new
opportunities.
The futuring process typically begins with gathering
data related to current trends and conditions
affecting an organization’s industry or market
space—such as consumer preferences, regulatory
changes, technological developments—as well as
broader social forces like global politics or
macroeconomic cycles. This information is then
synthesized into meaningful patterns that can inform
forward-looking projections about likely
trajectories for different variables over time.
Through ongoing monitoring of these variables along
with brainstorming sessions about potential
“disruptive” events or scenarios that could arise
from them, organizations can begin formulating
concrete plans for responding proactively to
whatever may come their way in the future.
Examples of Futuring
In recent years there has been increasing interest
among businesses in developing capabilities around
futuring as a means of staying ahead of competition
while simultaneously exploring new markets or
products that may offer high growth potential but
require deeper knowledge of emerging trends and
possibilities outside traditional business domains.
A great example is Amazon’s foray into artificial
intelligence technologies—a move many experts
believe was enabled by their advanced futuring
capabilities which allowed them to identify key AI
applications early on before most other companies
had caught on. Similarly Google has been leveraging
their own expertise in futuring when it comes to
investing heavily in machine learning projects
despite uncertain returns; they have even gone so
far as creating special teams devoted solely towards
researching futuristic concepts such as quantum
computing which could potentially revolutionize
entire industries decades from now if successful
enough today .
While large corporations are increasingly aware of
the need for comprehensive futurist capabilities
within their ranks , smaller startups looking for
ways into new markets may also benefit greatly from
this approach. By thoroughly analyzing data related
not only to current conditions but also factors
driving those conditions , entrepreneurs can get a
better handle on how likely certain disruptive
events are down the road. Additionally, by engaging
with partners who have more experience with these
techniques — such as venture capitalists familiar
with forecasting technologies — they can gain access
to valuable insights about upcoming trends without
having to conduct all research themselves.
Related Keywords: Forecasting, Scenario Planning,
Trend Analysis" |
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