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Future: How to be prepared for it?. Futurist Elina Hiltunen What’s Next Consulting Oy. Elina Hiltunen, What’s Next Consulting Oy, www.whatsnext.fi, email: whatsnext@luukku.com. Elina, who?. M.Sc in chemical engineering Futurist Ph.D. Student at HSE Lecturer, consultant
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Future:How to be prepared for it? Futurist Elina Hiltunen What’s Next Consulting Oy Elina Hiltunen, What’s Next Consulting Oy, www.whatsnext.fi, email: whatsnext@luukku.com
Elina, who? • M.Sc in chemical engineering • Futurist • Ph.D. Student at HSE • Lecturer, consultant • Founder of What’s Next Consulting Oy • Columnist at Talouselämä, Wired UK, Talous Sanomat, Jade, Future Takes (US) • Board member of European Futurists Conference • Blogger: www.future.vuodatus.net
What did not happen in the future: 1910 , France: Paleo future blogi
Harpleys Week, 1908 And what happened… Source: paleofuture blog
Why to think about the future when we cannot predict it? • Be prepared for various futures (anticipation) • Innovating the futures and breaking our mental models • Communicating and discussion about futures with shareholders
Anticipating the futures Being prepared for various futures
Some concepts of the future Wild cards Fad Trend Weak Signals Megatrend duration
Megatrendit are big trends that concern a lot of people
Globalization Source: http://www.cartoonweb.com/images/globalization/globalization1.gif
Networking Source: http://www.cartoonweb.com/
TRENDs Increase of the use of social media Increase of use of alternative energy sources Increase of use of mobile phones Increase of distant working Increase of single households
Wild cards • Fast changes with huge impacts Kuvan lähde: http://www.israelnewsagency.com/cherney911terrorism.jpg
Weak signals Signals of new emerging issues that can become big trends in the future- or then not
A weak signal test 1. Makes your colleagues to laugh 2. You collagues are opposing it:no way, it will never happen 3. Makes people to wonder 4. No one has heard about it before 5. It is wanted that no-one talks about it anymore (a tabu) 1-5 ticks and it is a weak signal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6z2DWXmRkg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd99gyE4jCk Philips Lumalive
Technological weak signals innovations Social weak signals something is done differently, a change in accustomed Different kinds of weak signals
Where Do I (as a weak signal enthusiast) find them? • Surfing in the Internet • Blogs, blogs and blogs • Keeping my eyes and ears open, mobilephone with camera in the other hand and a notebook in the other reporting about weak signals
TrendWikiwnc.trendwiki.fia tool for organizations for collecting futures information
TrendWikiwnc.trendwiki.fi Trendi + erilaiset tilastolliset Analyysit skenaariot signaalit
Scenarios Now
Scenarios Trend Trend Trend Trend Trend Trend Megatrend Megatrend Megatrend
Testing the strategy How will the strategy work in different futures -finding weak points of strategy -thinking of various possibilities for action in the future
Scenarios Strategy
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. ” ”For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Breaking the mental models Tools: -Strategic serendipity -Futures Window
Futures Window References: VTT, UPM, Nokia, Welness fair 2008, YLE
Strategic Serendipity Product/ service Target group theme A trend
Finnair Departure 2093 www.departure2093.com
Futures work of various organizations • Macroscenarios (Shell, Nokia) • Consumer scenarios (Philips, Sony Ericsson) • Reports on various topics (Siemens, IBM) • Futures teasers(Philips Design, VW)
Beware of these in you organization’s futures work • Believing too much on your own opinions about the future • Consensus, group think • Being prepared only for one, the most wanted future • Superficiality, too little resources
Thank You! More information: www.future.vuodatus.net and www.whatsnext.fi