Strategic Foresight

Specifying the research topic

Collecting & analyzing signals

• Tool: Look Back to Look Forward

Creating forecasts: reviewing signals & drivers

• Tool: Reveal Unexpected Possibilities

Building scenarios: reviewing signals & drivers

Updating a forecast from the past to look forward

Unsticking the mind

• Technique #1: Predict the Past

• Technique #2: Remember the Future/XYZ method

• Technique #3: Hard Empathy

Thinking about your future self & building empathy

• Tool: First Person Future Thinking

Envisioning alternative futures

• Technique: 100 Ways Anything Could Be Different

• Tool: Envision Alternative Futures

• Technique: Experiential Future Ladder

Massively multi-player foresight

• Simulation game on scenarios

Gaming out surprising consequences

• Technique: Future Wheel

Seeing the future from a different point of view

• Technique: Positive and Shadow Imagination

• Technique: Two Sides to Every Future

• Tool: Leading Edge Interviews

• Tool: The Four Future Feelings

Creating epic wins

• Tool: EthicalOS

• Tool: Equitable Futures Card Game

Identifying a preferred future

• Technique: Work Backwards from a Preferred Future

• Technique: Headlines from the Future

• Technique: Images of the Future

• Technique: +1 Future Scenario

• Technique: Artifacts from the Future

Taking action & committing

• Tool: Action Roadmap

• Technique: Participatory Futures

• Tool: Pledge to Make the Future