Strategic foresight
A concept in strategic foresight and anticipatory governance
The discipline of thinking systematically about possible futures. It does not try to predict what will happen. It maps what could happen so that decisions can be tested against more than one future.
Background
Modern foresight practice grew out of military and corporate planning after the Second World War. Herman Kahn’s scenario work at the RAND Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell’s scenario planning in the 1970s are two well-known roots. Today foresight is taught as a discipline in its own right, including at the University of Houston.
A question it raises
Which futures did we consider before we made this decision?
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