I published another article with Prepare with Foresight. This one describes horizon scanning and environmental scanning and how they can be used for disaster preparedness. I compare them to an extended version of situational awareness. Here's the intro: In my previous post, I explained how individuals can benefit from strategic foresight. Now, I’ll dig a little deeper … Continue reading Environmental and Horizon Scanning for Disaster Preparedness
Author: dddraeger
Aiglatson Foresight & Strategy is led by Dennis Draeger. Dennis is a strategic futurist with over 15 years’ experience in business start-up, management, and consulting. Operating out of New Zealand, he has helped clients all around the world think more strategically about the future.
I have just started a new series are Prepare with Foresight about what strategic foresight is and how it can be applied to contingency planning and disaster preparedness. What is the most important tool in your survival kit? Is it the tins of food, the can opener, the gun, the bullets, the gas lamp? Your … Continue reading Using Strategic Foresight in Disaster Preparedness
Below is my submission for the APF's World Futures Day poetry slam. Please click the link to understand the purpose of the poem. Speak Future is actually a redux of another poem of mine, They Sent Us Their Dreams, and I am working on another that should be more conforming with the themes of the … Continue reading Poem: Speak Future #spkfutr
The Association of Professional Futurists (APF) will commemorate World Future Day 2017 with an experiment in crowdsourcing an ode to the future. This will run from midnight, 12:01 AM , UTC+14 MARCH 1st to midnight 11:59 PM UTC-11. Thomas Jefferson once said. “I like the dreams… via Commemorate World Futures Day: Speak Future #SPKFUTR — Association … Continue reading It’s World Futures Day! Celebrate now
Our latest Gist report briefly looks at the future of Bitcoin and its related technologies – blockchain, smart contracts and distributed autonomous organizations. Proponents say Bitcoin will decentralize power away from banks and other institutions while distributing it across whole communities. If these promises hold true, Bitcoin will only be the beginning. Download the whole … Continue reading More than Money: Get the (Free) Gist on the Future of Blockchain
