A. Gary Shilling's The Age Of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation, provides foresight on which industries and sectors will boom and bust in the next 10 years.
These external resources sometimes operate as project managers or co-leaders in the foresight activities, construct learning games, provide foresight expertise unavailable internally, and add a third-party perspective to the activity.
In its critical comparative overview of foresight methods and how they are used by different futures institutes in Europe, North America, and their partners, the text argues that while many futures institutes claim to provide foresight expertise, few actually provide the tools needed by policy makers to help prepare for security risks.
Tracey Follows, founder, anydaynow Tracey is the founder of anydaynow, a futures company providing strategic foresight for fast moving brands.
Identifying people at risk of becoming ill or developing a serious condition and providing the foresight to prescribe preventive measures is a very real possibility.
Using the appropriate model to identify shortcomings can provide adequate foresight and planning to address them and optimize operations, rather than providing decontextualized information that does not facilitate program improvement.
In some cases, the information provided by the foresight activities may go into a black hole.
Such an augmentation can be provided by strategic foresight's capacity to extend the horizon of possibilities and deepen an understanding of the assumptions that inform the policies and practices that seek to realise particular futures.
The authors claim that the method sufficiently met the goals of the project study: it revisited business scenarios for Visegrad region and it provided learning-by-doing Foresight experience to company representatives, who are thereby encouraged to experiment more with Foresight in their business practice.
With great generosity and foresight, he provided for future generations of Hamilton students, and we are profoundly grateful.
