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) (597 downloads)
- Integral Reflections on Volume One of the Knowledge Base Of Futures Studies (527 downloads)
- A Review of Government Foresight (728 downloads)
- A Short Critical Review of Corporate Sustainability (528 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 (547 downloads)
- The Need For Conflict: Towards An Integral Approach To Understanding Conflict (paper) (621 downloads)
- The Need For Conflict (presentation) (564 downloads)
- A Generic Strategic Four-Sight Process (497 downloads)
- Quality Foresight: A stylised structure approach to relating the foundation concepts of quality foresight decision making (581 downloads)
- Deep Visioning: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight on Visioning as a Strategic Foresight Method (646 downloads)
- A Collaborative Alignment Model (700 downloads)
- Collaborative Alignment (presentation) (476 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 (671 downloads)
- A Review Of Scenario Worldviews (689 downloads)
- Towards Integral Scenarios: Creative suggestions for translating AQAL integral theory into scenario methodologies (608 downloads)
- Integral Scenarios: Re-Framing Theory, Building From Practice (1126 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 (857 downloads) (Published in Journal of Futures Studies 2005, 9(4): 15-28)
- Financial Services Wildcards (presentation) (471 downloads)
- Thinking About Generations: Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y at Work (paper) (548 downloads)
- Generational Change: Y? (presentation) (501 downloads)
- Future Transport Technology Report (513 downloads) / ATFT Appendices (636 downloads)
- Introduction to Spiral Dynamics (presentation) (578 downloads)
- Introduction to Strategic Foresight (presentation) (575 downloads)
- Introduction to Strategic Foresight for a Police Force (presentation) (543 downloads)
- Collaborative Enquiry Report: Melbourne 2030 (502 downloads)
- Collaborative Enquiry Report: Future Gearing For Sustainability (539 downloads)