{"id":755,"date":"2016-04-20T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/?p=755"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:55:20","slug":"useful-links-for-foresight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/20\/useful-links-for-foresight\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Links for Foresight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many web sites have foresight content useful to a wider public: some of these are from smaller consultancies, others are corporates who also have foresight activities which they are happy to share.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bp.com\/en\/global\/corporate\/energy-economics\/energy-outlook.html\">BP Energy Outlook<\/a> &#8211; what it says on the tin &#8211; latest outlook and an interesting read for those interested in energy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/publications.arup.com\/publications\/a\/an_introduction_to_corporate_foresight\">Arup &#8211; An Introduction to Corporate Foresight <\/a>&#8211; excellent and concise guide on what it is and how you might use it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.millennium-project.org\/index.html\">The Millenium Project<\/a> &#8211; A global foresight network of Nodes, information, and software, a think tank on behalf of humanity, not on behalf of a government, or an issue, or an ideology, but on behalf of building a better future for all of us.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefuturescentre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum for the Future, The Futures Centre <\/a> &#8211; site with many articles about signals of change.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN Development Program blog<\/a> &#8211; what it says on the tin &#8211; blog of the United Nations Development Programme with plenty on sustainability and gender.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iftf.org\/future-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IFTF, Future Now<\/a> &#8211; blog of American think tank and research organisation Institute for the Future. Highly recommended read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driversofchange.com\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arup Foresight Publications<\/a> &#8211; Shared publication page of Arup\u2019s internal think-tank and consultancy which deals with the future of the built environment and society at large.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Economic Forum Reports<\/a> &#8211; World Economic Forum reports.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shell.com\/energy-and-innovation\/the-energy-future\/shell-scenarios.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shell Oil Scenarios Sets<\/a> &#8211; From this link you can access old and new scenarios from Shell, one of the earliest adapters of scenarios.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearltrees.com\/t\/emerging-trends\/id7359749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LASA emerging trends database<\/a>: PearlTrees database around a group of emerging trends that LASA Insight follows. Trends like High Tech, water scarcity, Energy, Big Data, 3D printing, Health and so on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longfinance.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Finance<\/a> &#8211; Takes the long view &#8211; finance over 100 years. Reports, articles, research, events and initiatives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zyen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Z\/Yen<\/a> &#8211; City of London commercial think-tank, founded to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Articles, reports, papers and books available.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/randeurope\/research\/evaluation\/futures-analysis.html\">RAND Corporation Europe<\/a> &#8211; publications on their research and analysis. Good resource site looking at future impacts of change.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/qui-sommes-nous\/about-us\/association\/\">Futuribles International Association<\/a> &#8211; Carries out foresight studies on questions of shared interest and produces publications (mostly in French) on Foresight and horizon scanning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gresham College<\/a> &#8211; the modern Open University from the 16th Century.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaldashboard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Dashboard<\/a> &#8211; directed by two people whose different approach from ours earns our respect.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giref.uqam.ca\/en\/mission.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en \u00c9thique Financi\u00e8re de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al<\/a> &#8211; University of Quebec&#8217;s research group into financial systems governance and ethics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepuncertainty.org\/\">Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty<\/a>: Very apposite for the times we live in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Professional Associations and Journals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/associationofprofessionalfuturists.org\/\">The Association of Professional Futurists<\/a> (APF) is a global community of professional futurists committed to leadership and excellence in the futures field.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfsf.org\/about-us\">The World Future Studies Federation<\/a> (WFSF) is an organisation whose goal is to strengthen the scholarship of futures research.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfs.org\/Upload\/WFS_Org%20Overview_m4.pdf\">The World Future Society<\/a> is a membership organization for people who research,<br \/>\nenvision and create potential futures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/emeraldgrouppublishing.com\/products\/journals\/journals.htm?id=fs\">Foresight: the journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy<\/a> is a bi-monthly international journal published by Emerald Publishing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many web sites have foresight content useful to a wider public: some of these are from smaller consultancies, others are corporates who also have foresight activities which they are happy to share. 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