C-5 An Insider's Guide to Foresight Consulting

Most professional futurists earn their living by using the future to help clients make decisions in the present. The value of this service rests on a command of different ways of using the future and a capacity to adapt this knowledge to a wide range of circumstances and needs.
In this one-day intensive course, two highly experienced professional futurists, Andy Hines and Riel Miller, will cover the essentials of what they do in their extensive, global activities serving public and private sector clients.

Using a case study approach, the course will illustrate the range of techniques and contexts in which using the future can make a difference for what people see and do in the present. The course will be of interest to all futurists, from the simply curious to the professional, since the content will be conveyed using examples of projects that Hines and Miller have implemented over the last decade. Cases include projects where the future was used to better understand the choices facing: (a) an entire country, (b) a sample of national school systems from around the world, and (c) major multinational corporations.

Participants will have an opportunity, in the concluding session, to submit their own futures projects that can then be assessed on the basis of the professional experience of the course instructors.

Highlights: Participants will leave this course with an understanding of:

• How to carry out a futures project from A to Z.
• How long does it take? How does it kick-off? What kinds of frameworks, models, and tools do you use?
• How do clients respond?

Andy Hines is lecturer and executive-in-residence at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Futures Studies and is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight. His 20-plus years of professional futurist experience includes a decade’s experience working inside first the Kellogg Company and later Dow Chemical, and consulting work with Coates & Jarratt Inc. and Social Technologies. His books include ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape, Thinking about the Future, 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society, and the just-released Teaching about the Future, Houston, Texas, USA

Riel Miller has been co-creating innovation, leadership, and transformation in both the public and private sectors around the world for 30 years. He is one of the world’s leading strategic foresight designers and practitioners. He is currently head of foresight at UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Paris, France

Thursday, July 18, 2013

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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