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) (322 downloads)
• Integral Reflections on Volume One of the Knowledge Base Of Futures Studies (251 downloads)
• A Review of Government Foresight (442 downloads)
• A Short Critical Review of Corporate Sustainability (267 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 (272 downloads)
• The Need For Conflict: Towards An Integral Approach To Understanding Conflict (paper) (355 downloads)
• The Need For Conflict (presentation) (272 downloads)
• A Generic Strategic Four-Sight Process (238 downloads)
• Quality Foresight: A stylised structure approach to relating the foundation concepts of quality foresight decision making (329 downloads)
• Deep Visioning: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight on Visioning as a Strategic Foresight Method (403 downloads)

• A Collaborative Alignment Model (441 downloads)
• Collaborative Alignment (presentation) (209 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 (369 downloads)
• A Review Of Scenario Worldviews (420 downloads)
• Towards Integral Scenarios: Creative suggestions for translating AQAL integral theory into scenario methodologies (316 downloads)
• Integral Scenarios: Re-Framing Theory, Building From Practice (597 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 (358 downloads) (Published in Journal of Futures Studies 2005, 9(4): 15-28)
• Financial Services Wildcards (presentation) (230 downloads)
• Thinking About Generations: Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y at Work (paper) (281 downloads)
• Generational Change: Y? (presentation) (232 downloads)
• Future Transport Technology Report (249 downloads) / ATFT Appendices (364 downloads)
• Introduction to Spiral Dynamics (presentation) (283 downloads)
• Introduction to Strategic Foresight (presentation) (298 downloads)
• Introduction to Strategic Foresight for a Police Force (presentation) (275 downloads)
• Collaborative Enquiry Report: Melbourne 2030 (242 downloads)
• Collaborative Enquiry Report: Future Gearing For Sustainability (244 downloads)