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Keeping Up with Ever-Evolving Cybersecurity
Using WEF's Global Cybersecurity Outlook report as a foresight resource.

VFS Team
Feb 31 min read
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Unlocking the Future: Key Insights from the CBO's Demographic Outlook Report
The recent report from the Congressional Budget Office, "The Demographic Outlook: 2025 to 2055," is an invaluable foresight resource.

VFS Team
Jan 151 min read
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Practical Foresight: Updating Your Contingencies
Update your contingency scenarios with a little foresight.

VFS Team
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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Across Sectors: Connecting the Dots
VFS is constantly talking to Executives across a variety of public, private, and non-profit sectors. A few of our current clients...

Lindsay
Mar 29, 20241 min read
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Practical Foresight: Discuss the Trends
Fortunately, it doesn’t take very long to have a good discussion about the future. In fact, ninety minutes will do just fine.

VFS Team
Mar 22, 20242 min read
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Practical Foresight: Picture Your Environment
Build your team's shared mental model of your operating environment.

VFS Team
Mar 8, 20242 min read
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Practical Foresight: 10 Minutes Each Week
Practical Foresight activity #1: 10 minutes each week to discuss signals of change.

VFS Team
Feb 23, 20242 min read
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Choosing Your AI Path
It might surprise some people to learn that formal futures studies has a lot of history in it. When it comes to the topic of economic...

VFS Team
Dec 1, 20233 min read
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Praise for 4 Steps to the Future
“4 Steps to the Future” by Dr. Richard Lum is a thought-provoking and insightful guide..."

Lindsay
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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Where are You Squeezing to Predict, Where are You Relaxing to See Possibilities?
Sometimes we are trying to predict a specific future thing, and other times we are trying to see more of what is possible.

Richard Lum
May 12, 20232 min read
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Hurricanes, Strategic Shifts, and the Hard Work of Foresight
The thing that makes foresight tough, that can make the work we do seem like a Sisyphean existence, has to do with changing minds.

Richard Lum
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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Opening the Aperture
To do good foresight work, especially in today’s turbulent context, one of the things we need is more information about the wider world.

Richard Lum
Sep 23, 20221 min read
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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,...

Richard Lum
Sep 9, 20221 min read
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Knowing What Kind of Foresight You Need
Now that so many more of us are becoming familiar with foresight, we have an opportunity to be more discerning about what we need.

Richard Lum
Jul 15, 20222 min read
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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...

Richard Lum
Jun 20, 20222 min read
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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.

Richard Lum
Apr 27, 20223 min read
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