FAQ
Q. What is the difference between 'Foresight' and 'Strategic Foresight'?
A. Foresight is the ability to think about some time in the future. Most people have this ability but tend not to think about the future in a deliberate and in-depth way. Strategic Foresight is a consicous and deliberate approach to attempting to learn about, consider and explore potential future developments, in the light of a specific context and then questioning our assumptions and expectations to see if they are valid and realistic
Q. What are Human Values?
A. Human Values are those inherent perspectives of the world that drive our behaviours. The issue of right and wrong or acceptable behaviour varies considerably depending on which 'Values lens' you are looking through. Our work with the Human Values approach is informed by training with the National Values Centre in the USA and is based on the Spiral Dynamics model. We've introduced it to some of the largest corporate and government agencies and smaller firms and NGO's in Australia and beyond. There's plenty that has been written about the model and its applications and successes are exceptional
Q. How does your approach to Innovation differ from any others?
A. Good question - we hold a much higher expectation for innovation than many others who see almost any creative endeavour as 'innovative'. Whilst connected, we do not believe that creativity and innovation are the same. Further we help organisations overcome the barriers that prevent them from being more innovative. But first, you have to know how to find those barriers - that's where we come in!
Q. How do we contact you?
A. Glad you asked - via email here or on 613 9445 0289
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Events
Friday 16 July 2010
A series of recent activities has me writing on the idea of 'future strategy' and how different organisations are approaching their future development. What is interesting is the strong sense that preparing for your potential future requires multiple paths forward, not a single 'home run'. To that end I've recently considered sporting bodies and local community driven programs which has triggered these 'thought bubbles'
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Monday 5 July 2010
Stephen Downes is one the handful of bloggers I follow consistently. I do so because Downes (unlike many others unfortunately) like to write about his thinking AS WELL AS promoting the thinking of others, whether or not he agrees with them. In that way you get a solid collection of alternative views within his field of endeavour (learning & teaching et al). The link below will take you to a presentation by David Harvey that walks you through an interesting interpretation of the Capitalist model and where we are at in the world affairs. Whether or not you agree with the content, it is highly recommended
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Monday 28 June 2010
Coming off what has been undoubtedly my busiest period (3 months) in the past decade, I'm in the throws of catching up on some light reading. I usually have at least two books on the go and my preference is for the books to be about diverse topics because it allows the mind to seek out random connections. I once 'solved' the nuclear fusion problem whilst reading books by Umberto Eco and John D Barrow. A physicist friend of mine suggested my idea was radical and yet theoretically possible. But I digress. Right now I have a wide combination - 'From Poverty to Peace' by Duncan Green looks at ways in which we can empower people to help themselves more effectively, whilst looking at the myriad of mistakes so commonly made in the area of 'aid'. 'New knowledge in Human Values' is an older book edited by Ambraham Maslow with a wide contribution of thoughts from the likes of Pitirim Sorokin, Dorothy Lee and Paul Tillich (among others) and is a walk through some of the thinking about Human Values emerging in the late 1950's. The chapters are appropriately dense undertakings and I'm finding it hard to stick with, especially as I'm more inclined to lean towards the model of Clare W Graves and his Value Systems Thoery; 'Coercion as Cure' by Thomas Szasz is a ripper of a book thus far, though I'm only a few chapters in, I can tell the quality of a book by how much 'tagging' I do within a text
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