The key points were:

• We are all capable of thinking about the future but or brains evolved to respond to physical threats so we are excellent pattern recognition machines.
• This leads to hidden biases in the way that we think about the world and how we think about the future. So we need tools and processes to deal with those problems.
• The principles of those processes involves including as many perspectives as possible into the process of scanning for future change and analysing that scanning for ideas and innovation. They also include understanding the context of the application of any new idea.
• Every organisation needs to treat thinking more deeply about the future as they would any other issue – what is our need, and do the activities we are undertaking and the resources we are allocating match that need?

 

 

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