Episode web page: https://tinyurl.com/2b3dz2z8 ----------------------- Rate Insights Unlocked and write a review If you appreciate Insights Unlocked , please give it a rating and a review. Visit Apple Podcasts, pull up the Insights Unlocked show page and scroll to the bottom of the screen. Below the trailers, you'll find Ratings and Reviews. Click on a star rating. Scroll down past the highlighted review and click on "Write a Review." You'll make my day. ----------------------- In this episode of Insights Unlocked , we explore the evolving landscape of omnichannel strategies with Kate MacCabe, founder of Flywheel Strategy. With nearly two decades of experience in digital strategy and product management, Kate shares her insights on bridging internal silos, leveraging customer insights, and designing omnichannel experiences that truly resonate. From the early days of DTC growth to today’s complex, multi-touchpoint customer journeys, Kate explains why omnichannel is no longer optional—it’s essential. She highlights a standout example from Anthropologie, demonstrating how brands can create a unified customer experience across digital and physical spaces. Whether you’re a marketing leader, UX strategist, or product manager, this episode is packed with actionable advice on aligning teams, integrating user feedback, and building a future-proof omnichannel strategy. Key Takeaways: ✅ Omnichannel vs. Multichannel: Many brands think they’re omnichannel, but they’re really just multichannel. Kate breaks down the difference and how to shift toward true integration. ✅ Anthropologie’s Success Story: Learn how this brand seamlessly blended physical and digital experiences to create a memorable, data-driven customer journey. ✅ User Feedback is the Secret Weapon: Discover how continuous user testing—before, during, and after a launch—helps brands fine-tune their strategies and avoid costly mistakes. ✅ Aligning Teams for Success: Cross-functional collaboration is critical. Kate shares tips on breaking down silos between marketing, product, and development teams. ✅ Emerging Tech & Omnichannel: Instead of chasing the latest tech trends, Kate advises businesses to define their strategic goals first—then leverage AI, AR, and other innovations to enhance the customer experience. Quotes from the Episode: 💬 "Omnichannel isn’t just about being everywhere; it’s about creating seamless bridges between every touchpoint a customer interacts with." – Kate MacCabe 💬 "Companies that truly listen to their users—through qualitative and quantitative insights—are the ones that thrive in today’s competitive landscape." – Kate MacCabe Resources & Links: 🔗 Learn more about Flywheel Strategy 🔗 Connect with Kate MacCabe on LinkedIn 🔗 Explore UserTesting for customer insights for marketers…
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🚀Episode 120 of the Think Forward Show is ready for you! 🚀
What if the key to seeing the future was learning to notice what others miss?
🎙️ Welcome to the Think Forward Show Episode 120: Non-Obvious Thinking with Rohit Bhargava 🔍
I'm Steve Fisher, your guide on this futurist journey, and in this enlightening episode, I sit down with Rohit Bhargava, author of the Non-Obvious series and the new book "Non-Obvious Thinking." We explore how developing a non-obvious mindset can help us spot opportunities others miss and build a more open-minded future.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
• How operating on different time scales can lead to unique insights
• The evolution from trend spotting to developing a non-obvious mindset
• The importance of being a "noticer" in our increasingly digital world
• Why ethics and diverse perspectives are crucial in shaping our future
Rohit's approach challenges us to look beyond the immediate and obvious, teaching us how to cultivate a mindset that can transform both our personal and professional lives. After following his work for 15 years, this conversation was particularly special.
What do you notice that others might miss? Join the conversation!
#ThinkForwardShow #Innovation #FuturesThinking #NonObviousThinking #Leadership
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Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/
Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.
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Think Forward Ep 120 - Non-Obvious Thinking with Rohit Bhargava
Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
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🚀Episode 120 of the Think Forward Show is ready for you! 🚀
What if the key to seeing the future was learning to notice what others miss?
🎙️ Welcome to the Think Forward Show Episode 120: Non-Obvious Thinking with Rohit Bhargava 🔍
I'm Steve Fisher, your guide on this futurist journey, and in this enlightening episode, I sit down with Rohit Bhargava, author of the Non-Obvious series and the new book "Non-Obvious Thinking." We explore how developing a non-obvious mindset can help us spot opportunities others miss and build a more open-minded future.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
• How operating on different time scales can lead to unique insights
• The evolution from trend spotting to developing a non-obvious mindset
• The importance of being a "noticer" in our increasingly digital world
• Why ethics and diverse perspectives are crucial in shaping our future
Rohit's approach challenges us to look beyond the immediate and obvious, teaching us how to cultivate a mindset that can transform both our personal and professional lives. After following his work for 15 years, this conversation was particularly special.
What do you notice that others might miss? Join the conversation!
#ThinkForwardShow #Innovation #FuturesThinking #NonObviousThinking #Leadership
Order your copy of SuperShifts: www.bit.ly/supershifts
ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts
🎧 Listen Now On:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO
Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/
Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
We celebrate our milestone 100th episode and the culmination of our Foundations in Foresight series by reflecting on our journey and preparing for what comes next. • Reflecting on the journey of building a comprehensive foundation for understanding and shaping the future • Revisiting key elements including nine super shifts, the Transform Model, and futures-fluent mindset • Transitioning from learning about foresight to leading with it through consistent practice • Identifying your sphere of influence where you can effectively apply futures thinking • Developing a consistent foresight practice through regular scanning, scenario development, and review • Creating collaborative spaces to engage with others around futures thinking • Embracing "practical humility" about the future—not predicting perfectly but preparing better • Overcoming common challenges: resistance to foresight thinking, translating foresight to action, maintaining perspective during crisis • Expanding your impact from personal decisions to team dynamics and organizational culture • Continuing your foresight journey through ongoing learning and community engagement Join us on the main Think Forward show as we continue exploring emerging trends, interviewing thought leaders, and diving deeper into the application of futures thinking across industries and challenges. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
The mindset you bring to uncertainty, change, and possibility is the most powerful element in effective futures thinking, not just the frameworks and methods. • Futures fluency resembles learning a language, where patterns become intuitive and contextual meanings become apparent with practice • Being futures fluent means developing an intuitive understanding of change, system interactions, and strategic positioning • The emotional dimension involves developing "uncertainty comfort" - staying engaged even when facing significant unknowns • Psychologically adaptable people acknowledge emotional responses to uncertainty but still move forward with clear thinking • The cognitive dimension includes systems thinking, temporal agility, divergent-convergent balance, and assumption awareness • Futures fluent thinkers can see interconnections, move between timeframes, explore widely then focus strategically • The strategic dimension translates thinking into action through opportunity sensing, flexibility, options creation, and continuous learning • Cultivate futures fluency by noticing emotional responses to uncertainty, questioning assumptions, and practicing perspective shifts • Organizations with futures fluent cultures adapt faster, innovate more effectively, and navigate disruption with greater resilience • The futures fluent mindset is becoming essential for thriving in a world of accelerating change Join us for our final episode where we'll bring everything together, reflecting on the entire journey from foundations to future-ready leadership. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
We conduct a comprehensive future readiness assessment to help you measure your capabilities across five key dimensions and create a personal development roadmap for navigating transformation effectively. • Future readiness isn't a single capability but a multidimensional capacity spanning how you think, what you know, how you act, and what systems you've built • The five dimensions of assessment include futures literacy, supershift awareness, foresight methodology, systems integration, and adaptive capacity • Futures literacy measures your ability to engage with multiple futures, temporal intelligence, comfort with uncertainty, awareness of assumptions, and balanced perspective • Supershift awareness evaluates your understanding of nine major transformative forces reshaping our world, from telefusion to eco-awakening • Foresight methodology assesses your practical capability with futures tools like signal scanning, trend analysis, and scenario development • Systems integration examines how well you've embedded futures thinking into ongoing processes and decision-making • Adaptive capacity represents your ability to actually respond effectively to change through learning agility, resource flexibility, and resilience • Creating a comprehensive profile across these dimensions reveals your strengths and development opportunities • For organizational leaders, an additional assessment evaluates collective future readiness across strategic integration, cultural adaptability, and leadership orientation • The goal isn't perfect scores but honest reflection that reveals specific areas for growth and a practical roadmap forward Share your future readiness assessment with a trusted colleague, friend or mentor and ask for their perspective. Commit to one specific practice from your development plan to implement immediately. Don't wait for the perfect time to start strengthening your future readiness. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
We complete our workshop trilogy by exploring how super shifts are reshaping communities, governance, culture, and our collective futures through a societal lens. This interactive session provides tools to identify social impacts of transformations, understand multi-dimensional societal changes, explore emergent futures, and develop strategies for effective collective engagement. • Using spectrum signals to identify concrete manifestations of super shifts across governance, education, economics, health, community, and other social systems • Applying spectrum layer analysis to understand societal transformations across surface changes, structural shifts, cultural evolution, identity reformation, and paradigmatic worldview shifts • Creating visual systems maps showing how societal transformations interconnect and influence each other • Developing three distinct societal scenarios: Mainstream Adaptation, Disruptive Reorganization, and Divergent Pathways • Assessing societal readiness by identifying critical capacity gaps and adaptive strengths • Clarifying your personal role and unique contribution to positive collective adaptation • Building a social engagement strategy that connects individual efforts to broader movements • Identifying leverage points where small actions might produce significant positive change Join us next time as we help you assess your overall future readiness, integrating insights from all three workshops to evaluate how prepared you are to navigate transformation across personal, organizational, and societal dimensions. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
We continue our Foundations in Foresight series with an interactive workshop focused on how super shifts reshape organizations and how leaders can develop adaptive strategies in response to these transformative changes. • Identifying which super shifts will most significantly impact your organization • Using spectrum signals to track early indicators of these shifts in your industry • Applying spectrum layer analysis to understand multidimensional organizational implications • Creating robust spectrum scenarios to test and strengthen your strategies • Developing a practical adaptive roadmap with immediate, midterm, and long-term actions • Integrating super shift insights into existing organizational processes and systems • Establishing mechanisms for ongoing signal scanning and strategic adaptation • Creating a focused 90-day action plan to begin implementation immediately This workshop is designed to be interactive, so we recommend setting aside 90-120 minutes in a quiet space with materials to capture your insights, and if possible, involving key colleagues for multiple perspectives. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
We venture into territory many futurists avoid: the darker sides of our potential futures and why exploring dystopian possibilities is a crucial component of comprehensive futures thinking. • Psychological discomfort and professional incentives often prevent us from exploring negative futures • The COVID-19 pandemic showed how avoiding challenging scenarios ensures we're unprepared when they happen • Exploring dark futures enhances resilience, helps identify warning signals, and reveals unexpected opportunities • Balanced scenario development should include both challenging and opportunistic versions of possible futures • Psychological resilience can be built by framing exploration as preparation, focusing on agency, and using temporal distancing • Convert dark futures exploration to strategic advantage by identifying vulnerabilities and creating early warning systems • Even in difficult futures, opportunities exist to create value and positive impact • The most resilient organizations aren't those who avoid challenges but those who face them directly We challenge you to identify one important area where you might have a strategic blind spot, apply the "what could go wrong" template, and take one concrete action to build greater resilience. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
We explore the power of building and nurturing communities of futures thinkers to accelerate learning and create greater impact in foresight work. The future is collectively created, and connecting with others who explore different perspectives enhances our ability to shape it. • Futures communities expand our perspective by bringing together diverse viewpoints and expertise • Communities function as learning accelerators, allowing members to build on others' insights and approaches • Being part of a community creates accountability and sustains momentum in futures practice • Collective action dramatically increases potential for meaningful change, especially for addressing systemic challenges • Various types of futures communities include formal professional networks, practice-focused communities, place-based initiatives, online platforms, informal peer groups, and organizational foresight teams • Finding communities involves mapping your interests, exploring professional associations, searching digital platforms, identifying local initiatives, and attending futures-focused events • Building your own community requires starting small, inviting diverse participants, creating valuable experiences, and establishing flexible structures • Successful communities balance consistency with renewal, document learning, navigate challenges, create feedback loops, focus on impact, and evolve their structure over time • Your personal approach to community engagement might include exploring, participating, contributing, or catalyzing new connections This week's challenge: Take one concrete step toward deeper community engagement—research potential communities, join an existing network, or connect two futures thinkers who should know each other. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
This workshop guides listeners through a practical application of the Spectrum Foresight method to understand and navigate super shifts that will transform their personal futures, careers, relationships and opportunities. • First interactive workshop in a three-part series focused on implementing the Spectrum Foresight method • Designed as a 90-minute guided session requiring quiet space and writing materials • Structured exercises help identify which super shifts will most significantly impact your personal future • Spectrum Signals approach used to track observable indicators of these major transformations • Multi-layered analysis explores impacts across daily routines, work, relationships, identity and health • Development of three distinct future scenarios (expected, accelerated, and unexpected interactions) • Personal capability assessment to identify strengths and development priorities • Creation of an adaptive strategy with specific actions across near, mid, and long-term horizons • Integration exercises to ensure insights become ongoing practices rather than one-time reflections • Next episode will shift focus from personal implications to organizational impact Join us for our next workshop where we'll explore how super shifts affect organizations and develop adaptive strategies at the organizational level. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Foresight isn't something you can only practice occasionally during big decisions - it's a muscle that must be developed daily through consistent habits, signal scanning, and reflection. • Foresight changes your relationship with the future, helping you see it as a space of possibility rather than something threatening • Effective personal futures practice includes five key elements: signal scanning, reflection, imagination, strategic application, and continuous learning • Morning routines can prime your mind for futures thinking through journaling, curated information, and questioning assumptions • Throughout your day, practice meeting mindfulness, decision journaling, signal spotting, and future-focused conversations • Evening reflection helps process observations and deepen insights without requiring extensive time • Weekly practices (30-60 minutes) should focus on trend mapping, scenario exploration, and strategic review • Monthly practices (1-2 hours) involve broader horizon scanning, updating personal scenarios, and engaging with others • Make your practice sustainable by starting small, connecting to existing routines, making it social, and creating supportive environments • Overcome common obstacles like time pressure through integration rather than addition • Use the Personal Futures Canvas to design your practice with purpose, specific habits, and sustainability strategies Design your personal futures practice this week using at least one daily habit, one weekly practice, and one monthly commitment, then reflect after a month on what you've learned and how your thinking has changed. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Today we explore storytelling through design fiction, a powerful tool that translates foresight insights into narratives that inspire action and create change by making abstract possibilities feel real and immediate. Design fiction bridges the gap by creating tangible, immersive stories about the future that connect emotionally with audiences beyond intellectual agreement. • Our brains are wired for stories, activating regions associated with physical sensations, emotions, and personal memories • Information delivered through stories is 22 times more memorable than facts alone • Design fiction combines elements of science fiction, speculative design, and strategic foresight • Effective future narratives are human-centered, specific, plausible yet provocative, and connect to present action • Creating design fiction involves defining your purpose, building from solid foresight, focusing on specific contexts, and developing tangible artifacts • The approach can be adapted for strategy development, innovation processes, stakeholder engagement, and personal foresight • Common pitfalls include confusing possibility with prediction and creating narratives disconnected from action Your challenge: Choose one future possibility relevant to your work or life and create a brief design fiction exploring this possibility. Share it with someone else to spark a conversation about the future. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Ethical considerations are fundamental to effective foresight work, yet they often receive less attention than methods and frameworks. Our responsibility when engaging in futures work shapes decisions, influences perspectives, and potentially impacts countless lives. • The futures we choose to explore direct attention and resources toward certain possibilities while neglecting others • What gets imagined gets prioritized—foresight practitioners are active participants in creating the future • Inclusivity means considering whose perspectives are represented in our futures and whose voices are heard • Practical approaches include diverse participation, multiple perspectives, power awareness, and accessibility • Transparency requires making values, assumptions, and limitations visible rather than presenting work as objective • Clearly state guiding values, acknowledge key assumptions, declare limitations, and balance presentation • Practice consequential thinking by actively considering potential impacts of your work • Develop an ethical framework with principles that guide your foresight practice • Conduct ethical reviews throughout your process to reflect on whose perspectives might be missing • Seek diverse input, practice reflexivity about your own biases, and build ethical capacity in others Take one aspect of your current foresight work and view it explicitly through an ethical lens. Ask who is represented and who is missing, what values and assumptions underlie this work, and what responsibility you bear for how it might influence decisions. Then make one concrete change based on your reflection. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
We tackle the persistent gap between foresight activities and strategic planning processes, providing a roadmap for integrating futures thinking with execution plans in ways that enhance both activities. • Understanding why foresight and strategy remain disconnected: different timeframes, methodological approaches, languages, and organizational structures • The Three Horizons framework as a powerful bridge between exploration and execution • Embedding foresight in traditional strategic planning cycles: environmental scanning, vision setting, strategy development, resource allocation, implementation • Practical integration tools: Strategic Implications Workshops, Wind Tunneling Exercises, Strategic Radars, Portfolio Review Boards • Real-world case studies from a consumer goods company and healthcare system • Overcoming common integration challenges like rigid planning processes and lack of leadership buy-in • Applying these principles to personal strategic planning through annual reviews, quarterly checks, portfolio approaches, and decision filters Join us next episode as we explore how to design transformation roadmaps, creating clear pathways from your current reality to preferred futures. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Transformation roadmaps bridge insights about the future with clear pathways for meaningful change, connecting foresight work to concrete outcomes. We explore how to craft roadmaps that remain adaptable as conditions evolve rather than rigid plans that quickly become obsolete. • Traditional roadmaps often fail because they assume linear progression, focus on activities over outcomes, and treat the future as predictable • Effective transformation roadmaps consist of four key elements: North Star Vision, Horizon Framework, Integrated Workstreams, and Learning Loops • The Horizon Framework breaks transformation into 6-12 months (specific initiatives), 1-3 years (strategic moves), and 3+ years (directional priorities) • Creating your roadmap involves clarifying your preferred future, assessing current reality, identifying key shifts, designing horizons, organizing workstreams, and establishing learning mechanisms • Successful implementation requires visual storytelling, translation across organizational levels, ongoing environmental sensing, regular replanning, and capability development • Common challenges include stakeholder alignment, balancing specificity with flexibility, resource constraints, and maintaining momentum throughout the journey Keep designing, keep transforming, and as always, think forward. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Organizational futures fluency represents a critical capability for companies navigating today's complex, uncertain environments. We explore practical strategies for spreading foresight practices throughout your organization to build collective resilience and adaptiveness beyond specialized teams. • Organizations with widespread futures fluency sense changes earlier through distributed networks • Limited futures thinking creates detection gaps, implementation barriers, and response lags • Assessing current fluency requires examining perceptual range, time horizons, and adaptability • Effective development combines awareness building, skill development, process integration, and cultural support • Tiered learning approaches build basic literacy for most while developing advanced capabilities where needed • Embedding futures practices into existing processes ensures sustainability and practical application • Leadership modeling, psychological safety, and temporal diversity support futures-oriented culture • Common barriers include time constraints, complexity perceptions, and industry complacency • Case studies demonstrate successful approaches in both corporate and public sector environments • Measurement should combine capability assessments, process metrics, and documented outcomes Join us next episode as we explore participatory futures methods that involve diverse stakeholders in co-creating possible futures. The organizations that thrive in uncertain times are those that build futures thinking into everyday operations and culture. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Explore the transformative power of participatory futures methods and learn how to engage diverse stakeholders in co-creating futures rather than relying solely on expert analysis. We examine why traditional expert-driven foresight approaches have significant limitations and how participatory methods can enhance both the quality and impact of futures work. • Traditional foresight often suffers from limited perspectives, implementation gaps, power imbalances, and missed innovation opportunities • Participatory futures approaches enrich foresight by incorporating multiple perspectives and building ownership • Key principles include genuine inclusion, recognizing multiple ways of knowing, power awareness, future literacy development, and action orientation • Practical methods include collective horizon scanning, visioning workshops, futures dialogues, immersive scenario experiences, participatory policy design, and future prototyping • Effective processes require clarity of purpose, strategic stakeholder engagement, inclusive design, and clear bridges to action • Case studies demonstrate how participatory approaches have created significant value in both corporate and public sector contexts • Common challenges include time constraints, participants lacking futures literacy, process unpredictability, and leadership skepticism The future doesn't belong to experts alone. By engaging diverse perspectives in co-creating futures, we generate richer insights and build collective capacity to shape what's ahead in ways that benefit more people. Join us next episode as we explore the ethical responsibilities of futures practitioners. ORDER SUPERSHIFTS! bit.ly/supershifts 🎧 Listen Now On: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-forward-conversations-with-futurists-innovators-and-big-thinkers/id1736144515 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0IOn8PZCMMC04uixlATqoO Web: https://thinkforward.buzzsprout.com/ Thank you for joining me on this ongoing journey into the future. Until next time, stay curious, and always think forward.…
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