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Richard Lum
- Sep 9, 2022
- 1 min
The Future is an Expanding Space
“The future” is an expanding space of possibilities, not a contracting one. This is why we typically talk about the futures ahead of us,...
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Richard Lum
- Jun 20, 2022
- 2 min
Disinformation is Not a Future Problem
In ten years’ time, “disinformation” is not going to be the headline. Something else will. Something else will dominate people’s...
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Richard Lum
- Apr 27, 2022
- 3 min
The 3 Easiest Ways to Link Foresight to Strategy
It is easy to apply foresight to existing strategy conversations. Here we quickly look at three simple ways to link the two.
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Richard Lum
- Apr 18, 2022
- 4 min
The Simple Organizational Benefits of Foresight Training
Foresight training transforms scattered staff insights into a shared organizational understanding of emerging threats and opportunities.
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Richard Lum
- Apr 11, 2022
- 3 min
Competing for National Security and Resilience Partnerships
Bottom Line: the options – and competition – for national security and resilience partnerships will grow in the years ahead. Introduction...
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Richard Lum
- Mar 25, 2022
- 4 min
The DAO of Foresight
Bottom Line: foresight helps organizations anticipate today more of what is possible tomorrow. This is the way…
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Richard Lum
- Mar 18, 2022
- 4 min
The US Needs a Vision for the Future
The challenge of being an incumbent, of being king of the hill, is that you don’t want change. You like things the way they are. The...
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Richard Lum
- Jun 14, 2021
- 5 min
Defense Futures: Why All Our Scenarios Should be Disruptive
(note: this article was originally published in 2016) I am often struck by the fact that, from a futures perspective, many of the...
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Richard Lum
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
Is Your Knowledge Useful?
We have reading lists, newsletter subscriptions, data feeds and platforms streaming us premium content daily. Are you effectively...
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Richard Lum
- Nov 3, 2020
- 1 min
American Futures 2021: Brief #1
The American Futures 2021 project is a series of rapid forecasts to explore the continually shifting landscape of 2021.
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Richard Lum
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
Foresight for Thriving in an Age of Uncertainty
Join us on October 22nd, 2020 for an introduction to how organizations can use foresight to move from surviving to thriving.
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Richard Lum
- Oct 4, 2020
- 4 min
5 Things Your Strategic Plans Need to Address Now
As you and your organization work on your plans for next year, the following are five things that your team needs to consider.
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Richard Lum
- Sep 27, 2020
- 5 min
Sensing the Future of Warfare
The Sensing Model is a valuable tool for looking at the future of conflict, particularly in a year of so many successive disruptions.
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Richard Lum
- Sep 18, 2020
- 1 min
Anticipating JARVIS
This is just one more scan hit supporting a couple of our previously discussed emerging issues.
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Richard Lum
- Sep 7, 2020
- 1 min
Mapping the Future of Tourism
Dr. Richard Kaipo Lum will be presenting tomorrow at the Biodiversity Sri Lanka, Future in Tourism: Future in Nature technical session.
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Richard Lum
- Sep 6, 2020
- 1 min
"Social cryptomnesia," awesome phrase of the month
This was a great description by Richard Fisher of a fantastic phrase and a highly relevant pattern of change for today.
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Richard Lum
- Aug 13, 2020
- 11 min
Shredding Our Maps
The mental maps for 2020 that we all began the year with have been completely torn up. We all desperately want a new map of the...
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Richard Lum
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
On Radical Uncertainty
Another engaging podcast from EconTalk, and this time about a book of great relevance to thinking about the future, Radical Uncertainty....
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Richard Lum
- Aug 3, 2020
- 1 min
On How COVID-19 Defeated America
The following recent article in The Atlantic is an interesting - if fairly disheartening - discussion about America's failures (on...
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