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A Basic Presentation on Strategic Foresight

• Dr. Chalette Renee Griffin, SHRM-CP, Foresight For The New Age Recruiter

Workshop Agenda

Objective

• Introduce the term ‘Strategic Foresight’ to

an audience who have never heard of the term.

• Provide a basic overview of how strategic

foresight can improve decision-making.

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Strategic Foresight is the practice of creating a functional view of the future, or future events and possibilities, in such a way as to take full advantage of opportunities, as well as to prepare for any possible adversity

Source: . http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-strategic-foresight.htm

What is Strategic Foresight?

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Strategic Foresight enables organizations to anticipate many of the risk and opportunities that could confront them in the future

What is Strategic Foresight?

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Strategic Foresight Compares

“What the organization would like to see happen” ( desired/preferred future)

WITH

“What can happen” ( alternative future)

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The Goal of Strategic Foresight

To make better, more informed decisions in the present …in order to...

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The Goal of Strategic Foresight

Anticipate what’s coming….

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What Strategic Foresight Is Not…

• Fortune Telling
• Wishful Thinking
• Predicting what you

want to hear

• Producing a “correct

future”

• Predicting exactly

what will happen

• Strategic Foresight

uses forecasting to envision a set of alternative futures to consider

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What is the value of Strategic Foresight?

Desired/Preferred Future vs. Alternative Future

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• Organizations which utilize strategic foresight are able to anticipate and

respond to change in a timely fashion which gives them a competitive advantage over organizations who do not utilize strategic foresight.

• The inability of organizations to deal with change quickly or to be

proactive in the face of change has led to volatility of companies, sectors and shareholder value.

Who uses Strategic Foresight?

Depletion of Social Security by 2037

• The government uses strategic foresight to determine

whether the current rate and pace social security benefits will be depleted. The government is looking at external trends such as how many people are working verses how many are retiring, the creation of jobs and

• ther external factors to determine if there’s a

potential problem that is coming. Now that we know the depletion of social security is a threat to our desired future, we have the power in the present to make some changes( i.e., policy, creating jobs, etc.,).

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Lack of Strategic Foresight

• World Trade Towers Attack on September 11, 2001
• “U.S. Government’s “failure” to imagine the possible”

“No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon … into the World Trade Center, using planes as missiles."

• Former Secretary of State – Condoleeza Rice testimony to 9/11

Commission

• The outcome of 9/11 was considered an “alternative future” which no
• ne wanted to even believe could happen.
• Costly and Deadly

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References

• ABC News(2011). CBO Projects Social Security Will Be Drained By 2037: Do You Think The Next Generation Will See a Solvent Social Security System?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/cbo-projects-social-security-drained-2037-generation-solvent/story?id=12776481

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• What is Strategic Foresight. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-strategic-foresight.htm

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