4 Steps to the Future is a framework for developing foresight created by Dr. Richard Kaipo Lum, an academically trained futurist (and VFS’s founder).  The 4 Steps distills decades of training and experience into an easy-to-follow process for asking the fundamental questions important for effective foresight.

All leaders make decisions under uncertainty. Markets shift, technologies mature, and policies can change in ways that are hard to anticipate. Especially today.  Traditional planning tools struggle with this level of volatility. Scenarios solve that problem.

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In today’s volatile business environment, executive teams are under increasing pressure to anticipate disruption, manage strategic risk, and position their organizations to seize emerging opportunities. To support this work, Vision Foresight Strategy is proud to release Foresight Playbook #2503 - American Workforce Futures - now accompanied by a powerful new tool: the Scenario Supplement.

A widening values gap between Gen Z and employers is driving recruitment and retention challenges, with trends pointing toward decentralized work models. Leaders should assess value alignment and prepare for risks, using VFS’s Foresight Playbook to help adapt and stay ahead.

Scenario forecasting offers a powerful way for leaders to reset their strategic thinking, especially when navigating complex, high-stakes issues.

Vision Foresight Strategy is excited to introduce our latest offering, the FORESIGHT PLAYBOOK.

Here are four scenarios about the futures of American governance.

A scenario exploring the evolution and application of virtual alter egos.

Capturing the results of your Practical Foresight activities.

Update your contingency scenarios with a little foresight.

Anticipating disruptions and a turbulent year ahead.

Dr. Richard Lum mentioned in the news.

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Thinking critically about the future is not simply identifying events that are possible. It is also about shifting between the best models.

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