IFTF Foresight Essentials Newsletter Archive
IFTF Foresight Essentials Newsletter Archive
Read past issues that showcase insights from IFTF experts, foresight projects by Foresight Essentials Alumni, and tools for your foresight practice. See the featured articles listed under each issue. And hit the subscribe button below to get monthly Foresight Essentials newsletters emailed to you directly.
- Identify Your Assets and Gaps: A Foresight Tool for Action
- "FUTURES" Museum Exhibit Shows How Futures Thinking Builds Hope and Agency
- Sign up for NEW Futures Buddy Matches!
- Selecting the Right Signals: Don't Ask, "Is It Good;" Ask "What Is It Good For?"
- Designing an Anticipatory Institution
- NEW REPORT: Knowledge Mobilization in 2032:
Building Future-Ready Professional Education Networks
- What Exactly is Futures Thinking?
- Searching for Signals: Tips & Tricks from IFTF Staff
- NEW REPORT: Strategies for Building Enterprises in the 21st century
- Three Basic Steps to Creating Climate Positive Futures
- Looking 100 Years Into the Future: Lessons from John Maynard Keynes
- Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers
- How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action
- The Power of Futures Simulations to Change Future Outcomes
- Creating a Future-Ready, Equitable Higher Education System
- How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics
- Scenarios of University in 2035: A Transformation Towards Individualization
- How I Became a Futurist: Foresight Practitioner Origin Stories
- Are You Ready to Face the Future with More Creativity and Optimism?
- Rise of the PriestBots: Innovation at the Edge of Faith and Meaning in the Church
- The Great Imagination: A Futures Exhibit with an Urgent Message
- New Release: IFTF Future Readiness Playbook
- Join Jane McGonigal's Book Club with Your Imaginable Pre-Order
- A Year End Note from Lyn Jeffery, Director, IFTF Foresight Essentials
- Dipping into Science Fiction to Create More Nuanced Forecasts
- Building Forecasts on the Future of Architecture and Design
- Revisiting Dune: Insights for Foresight Practitioners
Issue #23 | September 30, 2021
- Freedom Dreaming:Calvin Williams Answers Your Questions on Afrofuturism
- Foresight Forensics: Breaking the Rules
- Video Storytelling Brings the Future to Life: A Conversation with Filmmaker Demetrius Wren
- Foresight Forensics: Using Scenarios to Demonstrate Unintended Consequences
- Creating Better Futures through Collective Intelligence
- Foresight Forensics: How to to Learn From Your Previous Scenarios
- Signals and Drivers: What is the Difference?
- Find Your Futures Buddy
- Rediscover Your Inner Futurist
- Avoid These Common Mistakes in Your Foresight Practice
- IFTF Fast Futures
- Stone Soup Scenarios: How to Pull in Multiple Perspectives When Forecasting
- Assembling Your Foresight Community
- The Value of Foresight in a VUCA World
- Future Factors: Flex Your Foresight Muscles with IFTF's Signals Database
- Are foresight practitioners optimists?
- Your Life After Covid-19: Introducing IFTF's newest class on Coursera.org
- The Social Work Health Futures Lab: Exploring the Future of Well-Being and Justice
- Newly Released IFTF Research: Six Superpowers for Urgency and Optimism
- A Playbook for Ethical Technology Governance
- Bentoism: A Map to Liberate Ourselves from the "Now Me"
- The First Five Minutes of the Future
- One thing I wish I had known when I was just beginning my futures practice....
- After the Pandemic, What Happens Next? New Toolkit for Transformation & New Scenario Building Training
- Searching for Signals: Tips & Tricks from IFTF Staff
- Lessons from the Ten-Year Forecast: Remote Events in the Time of Covid
- The Newest IFTF Foresight Essentials Tool: Catalyze the Future
- Four Questions for Forecasting the Future of Science and Technology
- IFTF Alumni Share: Infusing Futures Thinking with LEGO® Serious Play®, A Working Hypothesis
- To Spark Hope for the Future, Ask These Three Questions
- How to Design Games That Let You Feel the Future
- Using Causal Layered Analysis for Transformational Change
- Equitable Futures Start with a Home
- Predictions Aren’t the Point: Lessons from Forecasting the Pandemic
- NEW IFTF Foresight Tool: Design Your Practice
- Tips for Running an Online Expert Workshop
- Leadership in a Time of Uncertainty: Dr. Bob Johansen, IFTF Distinguished Fellow
- IFTF Foresight Tool: Map Complex Impacts During a Time of Uncertainty
- How to build a more foresightful organization: Dr. Rene Rohrbeck, Director at the Chair for Foresight, Innovation & Transformation, EDHEC Business School
- Lessons from the EPIC Conference: Framing a Conversation on How Foresight Can Be Practical and Relevant
- Alumni Insights: Peer Learning in a Client Foresight Project
- A New Year, a New Decade!
- The Futures Triangle: Navigating the Push and Pull of the Future
- How to Assess the Ethical Implications of New Tech
- Insights from IFTF Webinar with Ming-Li Chai and Harald Becker from Microsoft's Envisioning Team
- Equitable Futures Toolkit
- Automated Artifact-from-the-Future Engine
- Expert insights: an interview with Rick Holman, Foresight Council
- New practitioner insights: Gabe Cervantes, IFTF Research Assistant
- Foresight Studio at IFTF in 2018
- What's Ahead in 2019?
- On the agenda for 2017
- Highlights From IFTF Research Released in 2016
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Institute for the Future is the world’s leading futures organization. Its training program, IFTF Foresight Essentials, is a comprehensive portfolio of strategic foresight training tools based upon 50 years of IFTF best practices. IFTF Foresight Essentials cultivates the mindset and skillset that enable individuals and organizations to foresee future forces, identify emerging imperatives, and develop world-ready strategies. IFTF Foresight Essentials is uniquely customizable for businesses, government agencies, and social impact organizations.
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As a research and educational organization, Institute for the Future’s mission is to build more foresight capacity in the world by providing tools and resources to help people better anticipate the future to make decisions in the present. To this end the IFTF Foresight Essentials Toolkit and Templates are held under an IFTF copyright and licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). If you are an IFTF Certified Foresight Practitioner, we encourage the reproduction and use of these tools within your organization(s) and in your own practice of foresight education for any non-commercial, attribution-only, non-derivative use.
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