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An overview of foresight methods
Maree ConwayThinking Futures/
Centre for Australian ForesightAugust 2013
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Overview• Context: why foresight?• Methods Framework – the Generic Foresight
Process• Input Methods• Analytical Methods• Interpretation Methods• Prospective Methods• Back to Work: which methods and when?• Questions/Discussion
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A taster only
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Context: why foresight?
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We learn about the past to avoid repeating mistakes today
Future
Present
PastCertain in terms of what happened • Can’t change• Much data
Moving - things are changing constantly• Can respond, shape and
influence• Data overload
Uncertain – it hasn’t happened yet• Can shape and influence• No data
We need to learn from the future to avoid making mistakes
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Using the past and the future to inform strategic decisions today
Context: why foresight?
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Context: why foresight?• Building individual and organisational capacity to think
systematically about the future - in a strategic sense.
• Generating a range of possible futures and possible strategic options in those futures and enhancing understanding of possible challenges and strategic risks.
• Building capacity for long term thinking to enable proactive responses to change today.
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Definition
The ability to take a forward view and use the insights gained in organisationally useful ways
Richard Slaughter, Foresight International
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Change Ecosystem
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This is a common reaction when people are asked to deal with that ecosystem in the strategy process
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• Current strategy processes live in the pragmatic futures realm.
• Working within the existing paradigm, making it better, but not challenging it.
• We call it ‘strategic planning’.
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Think tomorrow is going to be more of today, and assume a linear future
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Are not prepared for the unexpected or the unfamiliar
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Usually don’t systematically and deeply explore the long term future (10-20 years
out) to identify possible futures
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Prefer quantitative over qualitative information
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Don’t challenge individual and organisational assumptions about the future
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Rely on experts and/or downplay or dismiss staff beliefs, hopes and fears about the future
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• Traditional planning are approaches increasingly irrelevant• Focus on data at the
expense of strategic thinking• View the plan as the
end game
• And don’t systematically and deeply consider possible futures
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• Beyond strategic planning – to strategy development and implementation that is futures ready not present proficient.
• Moving into the progressive futures realm, where we challenge the current paradigm and re-interpret how we do business to meet the challenges of the future.
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Frameworks for Challenging
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Theory UOtto Scharmer
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/publications/summaries.php
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SeeingDeepening understanding of relevant change
Environmental Scanning
ThinkingInterpreting implications,
identifying alternative futures & deciding on action
Strategic Thinking
DoingImplementing action and aligning the organisation
Strategic Planning
Thinking Futures Approach
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The Discipline of Anticipation
http://www.foresight-platform.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/09_Tinio-Le-Douarin-VIENNA-Sept-2012.pdf
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http://thinkbig-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/picture-26.jpg
This is where we usually start thinking about the future, so what do we miss?
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The goal: futures ready strategy
Strategy that is flexible enough to allow organisations to be agile in their response to future change.
- which is only possible if you have explored the future first.
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Foresight Methods
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The Foresight Diamond http://www.futuresdiamond.com/en/the-diamond
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Generic Foresight Process
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Input Methods• Provides high
quality information to inform your strategic thinking.
• Industry trends and global forces of change that are shaping the future of your industry.
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Global Drivers of Change
Your organisation
Strategic scanning happens at the global level – what are the forces shaping the change you are seeing in your industry?
You know a lot about this – it is the change already here that you deal with every day.
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Input Methods• Environmental (Horizon) Scanning• Delphi (expert based or crowdsourced)
• Done a lot today, but often not broad or deep enough, reinforcing rather than challenging status-quo thinking
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Emerging Issues
Trends
Mainstream
Time
Number of cases; degree of public awareness
Scientists, artists, radicals, mystics
Newspapers, magazines, websites, journals,blogs
Government Institutions
Few cases, local focus
Global, multiple dispersed cases, trends and megatrends
Adapted from the work of Graham Molitor and Wendy Schultz, and Everett Rogers
InnovatorsEarly adopters
Late Adopters
Late MajorityLaggards
Today
Time from emerging issue to mainstream varies between 18-36 years
Look on the fringe as wellMost scanningis here
Look here fortoday’s info
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Integral Scanning• Individual: Individual
Values and Psychology, Development of Consciousness
• Communal: Group Values & Mores and Cultural shifts
• Objective: Scientific, Technical, and Measurable trends/forces
• Social: Economic, Ecological, and Political trends/forces
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Delphi• Developed by Rand Corporate in
1970s• Used extensively (Japan has long
history)• Brings expert opinion together,
seeks consensus on forecasts• Traditional version takes months
and several rounds• Now real time Delphi, immediate,
one round usually• http://
www.millennium-project.org/millennium/RTD-general.html
• http://shapingtomorrow.com
• Remember, expert opinion is only one input.
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Expert Judgements• “Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see
no hope for future development”Roman engineer Sextus Julius Frontinus, 1st Century AD
• “Heavier than air flying machines are not possible”Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1895
• “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out”
Decca Recording Co. rejecting The Beatles, 1962 • “The fact that conflicts [producing civilian casualties] have
been conducted away from the U.S. homeland can be considered one of the more fortunate aspects of the American experience.”
Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) for the US Dept of Defence, 2001
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Analysis• Looking for patterns
and themes relevant for your organisation.
• Organising and presenting the inputs for your organisation.
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Analytic Methods• Trend Analysis• Emerging Issues Analysis• Cross Impact Analysis• Futures Wheel• Forecasts
• This set of methods are well understood, but people can get trapped by data
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Interpretation• System structure and
dynamics • whose beliefs are
dominant?• what’s driving and
shaping the trends? • how will they develop?• and what does it mean
for us?
• This stage needs time for thinking and conversation
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Interpretation Methods• Causal Layered Analysis• Systems Thinking
• Hardest level because it needs open minds and people willing to have their assumptions challenged.
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Litany
Social Causes
Discourse/Worldview
Metaphor/Myths
Short Term
Long Term
Visible
Hidden
Causal Layered Analysis
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Systems thinking
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Strategic Conversation
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Prospection• How will change
evolve over the next 10-20 years?• How might we
respond? What are our options?
• Often dismissed as fluffy because there is no ‘evidence’
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Prospective Methods• Scenario Planning/Thinking/Learning• Backcasting – linked with scenarios• Visioning
• Scenarios frequently used, but frequently done badly (superficial, don’t challenge assumptions)• This set of methods tests people’s ability to
move beyond today
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Scenarios
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Scenario Types
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Scenarios
http://www.thefuturesacademy.ie/
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Visioning• Preferred future for
an organisation.• Developed after
exploring alternative futures.
• Long term, aspirational, stable. Pulls people into the future.
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Back to Work
http://arttattler.com/archivedisneyfamilymuseum.html
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When and where to use?• Context matters – methods must be chosen
and tailored to your organisation.
• Foresight maturity of your organisation – the methods you use if you have never used foresight before will be different to those you use after doing foresight for 5 years, 10 years…• Foresight Maturity Assessment available at
http://www.foresightalliance.com/resources/foresight-maturity-model/
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When and where to use?• Decisions about foresight methods are
based on these factors:
• Purpose• Using Outputs• Resources Available• Major issues that you need to explore (the
future is a big place)• Internal champion and support of CEO
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http://www.monitorinstitute.com/downloads/what-we-think/what-if/What_If.pdf
This decision tree relates to scenarios but it’s relevant for all decisions about which method to use when.
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A final word• There are many organisations in the world that
use foresight in one way or another in their strategy processes.• Some are successful, (particularly in
Europe) ,others once were (Nokia), and some missed the boat altogether (Kodak).• Your time is better spent thinking about how to
contextualise methods for your organisation, rather than seeking benchmarks and case studies.
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Questions/Discussion
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Some Resources• Futures Research Methodology, Millennium
Project• http://
www.millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html
• Heuer and Pherson, Structured Analytical Techniques, CQ Press (Sage), 2011
• Practical Foresight Guide, Chapter 3, Methods• http://shapingtomorrow.com/media-centre/pf-ch03.
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ContactMaree ConwayThinking Futures/Centre for Australian ForesightTel: +61 3 90169506Email: [email protected] Web:http://thinkingfutures.net
Centre for Australian Foresight: http://cfaf.com.au
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