From Darkness to Light: How Metro de Santiago Embraced Foresight to Navigate Uncertainty
“From Darkness to Light” highlights the journey of Metro de Santiago (Metro), the public transportation system in Santiago, Chile to transform its approach to planning and decision-making in response to significant disruptions caused by social unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic. Facing Unprecedented Challenges In 2019, a fare increase triggered widespread protests, with Metro becoming a focal point of public anger and experiencing significant damage to its infrastructure. This event, coupled with the operational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, created a…
Strategic Foresight in Government
We often joke that since the pandemic we have not had to advocate for futures thinking to skeptics nearly as strongly as we used to. The disruption proved to be a meaningful shockwave across all disciplines, forcing us all to seriously reevaluate priorities and the antiquated systems that keep us from reaching our higher order potential. Reactionary, short-term, quantitative, and mechanical approaches are ill-equipped to carry humanity into the future, or “what got us here, won’t get us there”. Luckily,…
Not Just Competitive Intelligence, but Futures Intelligence
VUCA—volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous—is an acronym coined by the U.S. military to describe the geo-political environment after the Cold War. Today, business leaders have adopted the term to describe their Monday mornings.
Kill the Five-year Plan
The Current State: Good Intentions, Poor Results Having spent the majority of my career as a finance professional for large, multi-national firms, I know intimately the herculean (and often fruitless) task of strategic and financial planning.
Foresight in Market Research
How can we effectively use research to improve organizational decision making?
Can You “Future Proof” Your Design Strategies?
A failure of imagination is the undoing of many great design strategies. With Strategic Foresight, you scan to identify trends, analyze and identify patterns, create multiple future scenarios, and test strategies against these scenarios and adjust to make them adaptable.
Creating Strategy in a VUCA World
The ideas that have historically guided us — hierarchical structures of society and organizations, top-down governance, segmented industries, intellectual property, personal ownership — are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Launch to Tomorrow
President and CEO of the Orlando Economic Partnership’s Tim Giuliani and Kedge Founder/TFS Co-Founder Frank Spencer discuss how Strategic Foresight is the core to the seven-county region’s Launch to Tomorrow.
Move from Decision-Making to Multi-Faceted Strategy
In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, we can cling to our vision and mission, but we have no hope of clinging to strategy.
From Disney to Oxford – A Futurist’s Journey
In this vlog, Kedge Principal and The Futures School Co-Founder Yvette Montero Salvatico interviews Joana Lenkova, former Consumer Strategist at The Walt Disney Company and Founder of Futures Forward. They discuss Joana’s time on the futures team at The Walt Disney Company, the evolving field of strategy, and an announcement about The Futures School London!
