Strategic Foresight Archives

The following is a list of course work papers and presentations developed during my Masters of Strategic Foresight (2003-2005): very much learners efforts.  If you are interested in my current stance on any of these issues, please do check with me directly.

Reviews

• A Meta-Analysis of Recent Futures Research (2005) (1885 downloads )
• Integral Reflections on Volume One of the Knowledge Base Of Futures Studies (1877 downloads )
• A Review of Government Foresight (2037 downloads )
• A Short Critical Review of Corporate Sustainability (1811 downloads )

Methods

The following papers represent a focus on reviewing and exploring further developments in strategic foresight methods, primarily through the application of integral theory.

• Reinstating Value in Pre-Modern Futures Techniques (1802 downloads )
• The Need For Conflict: Towards An Integral Approach To Understanding Conflict (paper) (1874 downloads )
• The Need For Conflict (presentation) (1908 downloads )
• A Generic Strategic Four-Sight Process (1807 downloads )
• Quality Foresight: A stylised structure approach to relating the foundation concepts of quality foresight decision making (1907 downloads )
• Deep Visioning: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight on Visioning as a Strategic Foresight Method (1860 downloads )

• A Collaborative Alignment Model (1924 downloads )
• Collaborative Alignment (presentation) (1677 downloads )

Integral Scenarios – The first three papers were more groping towards how to relate integral theory to the scenario method.  They culminated in a single published paper, the fourth one listed here, which now also seems quite quaint.

• Integral Scenario Development: Introducing an AQAL Root Questions Method (1940 downloads )
• A Review Of Scenario Worldviews (2013 downloads )
• Towards Integral Scenarios: Creative suggestions for translating AQAL integral theory into scenario methodologies (1730 downloads )
• Integral Scenarios: Re-Framing Theory, Building From Practice (2614 downloads ) (Published in Futures 40 (2008) 160–172)

Applications

The following papers and presentations present applications of strategic foresight methods and integral theory to particular topics.

• Humanicide: An Integral Analysis of Globalisation (2283 downloads ) (Published in Journal of Futures Studies 2005, 9(4): 15-28)
• Financial Services Wildcards (presentation) (1702 downloads )
• Thinking About Generations: Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y at Work (paper) (1772 downloads )
• Generational Change: Y? (presentation) (1804 downloads )
• Future Transport Technology Report (1123 downloads ) / ATFT Appendices (1776 downloads )
• Introduction to Spiral Dynamics (presentation) (1824 downloads )
• Introduction to Strategic Foresight (presentation) (1877 downloads )
• Introduction to Strategic Foresight for a Police Force (presentation) (1719 downloads )
• Collaborative Enquiry Report: Melbourne 2030 (1708 downloads )
• Collaborative Enquiry Report: Future Gearing For Sustainability (1843 downloads )