The SFI report Crisis and Disaster Resilience 2030 focused on a deep analysis of future emergency management needs. The more recent document Toward More Resilient Futures: Putting Foresight Into Practice shifts the focus from theory towards practice.
Another page for the COST Web site with a link to Foresight 2030 reports, including the overall summary report. While not museum-specific, there is much to ponder broadly relative to technology, innovation and changing conditions in the world.
MBA in Strategic Foresight is designed to develop leaders who can inspire companies, NGOs, and governments to imagine better futures. Students also learn to manage the processes of creating and implementing new business models and strategies in order to make those futures real.
A Belgian-based organization seeking to apply strategic foresight planning in nine key domains and a trans-domain group. This one, Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH) has elements dealing with material culture, history, music and art and other museum-related topics.
Nice questioning of what foresight and futures thinking are and could/should be. I like the idea that we shouldn't be looking for best practices as that partially defeats the purpose.
These points are a useful way to think about how an individual can impact an organization's use of strategic foresight (here called "strategic discovery").
"Strategic foresight is a way of structuring your thinking so that you can create the future that you want," says futurist Kristen Alford. Do you agree?
I think our opportunity is to learn how they can personalize the museum experience... remember the data value chain graph-- descriptive to predictive to prescriptive. If we need to learn from another sector= 'Adaptive Learning Platforms' like Knewton and LearnSmart (McGrawHill)--- what are analogs for guiding museum goers?
Happy to do an e-ntroduction -- otherwise he is a very accessible if a member wanted to reach out-- Verne Wheelwright Let me know how the committee receives idea...1
Arup's Foresight + Innovation team, foresees that structures will be fully integrated into the fabric of the city, responsive to changes in the external environment, and designed for continuous adaptability, according to real-time needs and demands of its users.
Intelligent sensors collect information about operating conditions combined with analytics software will help facility managers become far more proactive about managing buildings at peak efficiency