Comments on: Leveraging Foresight in Uncertain Times http://futurethinktank.com/2009/06/30/leveraging-foresight-in-uncertain-times/ innovation. defined. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Leveraging Foresight in Uncertain Times (via futurethink’s innovation weblog) | Business, Technology and the Future http://futurethinktank.com/2009/06/30/leveraging-foresight-in-uncertain-times/#comment-2467 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:41:23 +0000 http://futurethinktank.com/?p=582#comment-2467 [...] Leveraging Foresight in Uncertain Times (via futurethink’s innovation weblog) Posted on March 23, 2011 by Lee Robinson Petzer As we slide into the (relatively) relaxed summer months, we’re looking forward to the opportunity to help our clients take stock of their innovation efforts so they can be prepared for the strategic planning season that lies ahead. We’re increasingly reminded of the important role that strategic foresight can play in this process. While organizations of all sizes could afford to experiment and innovate freely during better times, everyone today i … Read More [...]

]]> By: Alan Nordstrom http://futurethinktank.com/2009/06/30/leveraging-foresight-in-uncertain-times/#comment-894 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:47:24 +0000 http://futurethinktank.com/?p=582#comment-894 FORESIGHT

Can any other creature visualize
As human beings do through memory,
As if they had a second set of eyes,
What they have seen in actuality?

It seems such hindsight is our special gift
Engendering the foresight that we need
To imagine novel paradigms that shift
Our history and how we might proceed.

The great leaps we call progress all occur
Because our brains have this capacity
For postulating things that never were,
Then turning dreams into reality.

Without this capability of mind
Our hapless species were as bad as blind.

–Alan Nordstrom

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