Strategic Foresight Archives

The following is a list of course work papers and presentations developed during my Masters of Strategic Foresight (2003-2005): very much learners efforts.  If you are interested in my current stance on any of these issues, please do check with me directly.

Reviews

• A Meta-Analysis of Recent Futures Research (2005) (2198 downloads )
• Integral Reflections on Volume One of the Knowledge Base Of Futures Studies (2213 downloads )
• A Review of Government Foresight (2362 downloads )
• A Short Critical Review of Corporate Sustainability (2153 downloads )

Methods

The following papers represent a focus on reviewing and exploring further developments in strategic foresight methods, primarily through the application of integral theory.

• Reinstating Value in Pre-Modern Futures Techniques (2115 downloads )
• The Need For Conflict: Towards An Integral Approach To Understanding Conflict (paper) (2208 downloads )
• The Need For Conflict (presentation) (2246 downloads )
• A Generic Strategic Four-Sight Process (2142 downloads )
• Quality Foresight: A stylised structure approach to relating the foundation concepts of quality foresight decision making (2220 downloads )
• Deep Visioning: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight on Visioning as a Strategic Foresight Method (2170 downloads )

• A Collaborative Alignment Model (2225 downloads )
• Collaborative Alignment (presentation) (1997 downloads )

Integral Scenarios – The first three papers were more groping towards how to relate integral theory to the scenario method.  They culminated in a single published paper, the fourth one listed here, which now also seems quite quaint.

• Integral Scenario Development: Introducing an AQAL Root Questions Method (2260 downloads )
• A Review Of Scenario Worldviews (2346 downloads )
• Towards Integral Scenarios: Creative suggestions for translating AQAL integral theory into scenario methodologies (2078 downloads )
• Integral Scenarios: Re-Framing Theory, Building From Practice (2990 downloads )
  (Published in Futures 40 (2008) 160–172)

Applications

The following papers and presentations present applications of strategic foresight methods and integral theory to particular topics.

• Humanicide: An Integral Analysis of Globalisation (2619 downloads )
  (Published in Journal of Futures Studies 2005, 9(4): 15-28)
• Financial Services Wildcards (presentation) (2021 downloads )
• Thinking About Generations: Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y at Work (paper) (2118 downloads )
• Generational Change: Y? (presentation) (2144 downloads )
• Future Transport Technology Report (1404 downloads )
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  ATFT Appendices (2118 downloads )
• Introduction to Spiral Dynamics (presentation) (2161 downloads )
• Introduction to Strategic Foresight (presentation) (2208 downloads )
• Introduction to Strategic Foresight for a Police Force (presentation) (2058 downloads )
• Collaborative Enquiry Report: Melbourne 2030 (2051 downloads )
• Collaborative Enquiry Report: Future Gearing For Sustainability (2164 downloads )