Proprietary, better strategy and innovation begins with people looking ahead in a structured way, not with AI prompts.

The perception of agency underpins all innovation. Agency is the belief that what you are doing will create a positive change for yourself and for the people around you.

Wavepoint announces new foresight services and frictionless ways to engage.

Until GPTs can be augmented or replaced with AIs that can work alongside humans to spot emergent change, all they are doing is confirming the assumptions and biases leaders have about the future.

Uncertainty creates agency. Foresight can help leaders get comfortable with identifying and taking advantage of disruption.

You might have been hired to provide more certainty, but helping leaders wait for more certainty before making growth decisions can do a lot of harm.

Yesterday I attended the Space Foundation’s State of Space event in Washington D.C. It was a well done event with good panelists and discussions. Overall the takeaway was that all of the incredible developments we have seen over the last decade will serve as a platform for much more transformative change ahead.

The key to creating better futures lies in empowering teams to act within their current realities using “hard visions” based on systems thinking and multiple future scenarios.

It is worth exploring the classic blunders of foresight through the lens of applying AI. While AI is incredibly powerful in speeding up the acquisition and use of knowledge, it still requires a professional to understand where and how it should be applied.

More companies are realizing they have a role to play in solving some of the most critical problems of our time. But traditional scenario-based approaches to foresight may not be enough to identify and support these new areas of focus, because they are built for companies to respond to any future that may arise, not influence events themselves.

There’s a boom coming next year. Here’s 3 post-boom futures and 3 actions that strategy and innovation leaders can take now to get ready.

There are ten things as a business leader you should be doing right now about the novel Coronavirus. Here’s what they are.

The future is not known…sometimes you have to start the journey to discover what’s next.

For machine learning–based forecast efforts to succeed, they must embrace lessons from corporate foresight to address human and organizational challenges.

Bringing back an original foresight tool, ethnography, can provide a more nuanced and actionable set of insights from futures work.

A company’s current mental model can impede recognizing signals of disruptive change