Andy Hines, Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical, talked us through ten questions a futurist working inside an organisation should ask themselves. For example, "Who is your audience?", "What's in your toolkit?", and "What are your purposes?". It was a valuable and thoughtful session. I've seen Andy talk about this kind of problem before and no one else seems as reflective about the difficult position of being an internal futurist, or have such useful things to say. Hopefully he'll be firming these ideas up even more over time.
WorldView 2002: An Organisational Futurist's Audit
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Well, let's have them then... What are the ten questions?
Or do I have to wait until the movie comes out? :)
Now I think about it, he only had half a dozen questions ready, and I think they were only tentative. It was obviously a work in progress. However, they were things like "If you were telling someone in 2030 what the greatest achievement of futurism had been, what would it be?" and "What are the biggest threats to futurism?"
Joe Coates was at the back of the room and got into what is usually described as a "spirited discussion," eventually persuading Andy to add a question of his own (not that I remember it).
Regarding my comment above... I realise now I got this and Andy's other session confused (that's at http://www.overmorgen.com/archive/2002/07/21/000232.php ). I'll try and dig out the questions soon.
HUH )