The Briefing.Today
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Matt Finch: Tomorrow’s Inequalities
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the use of foresight for unpacking issues on justice, injustice, and inequality. Today I am joined by Matt Finch, Associate Fellow at the Sa...
Ron Adner: Ecosystem Strategy
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The basis of competition is changing. Rivalry is shifting from well-defined industries to broader ecosystems that deliver expansive value propositions...
Peter Scoblic: Long-Term Anticipatory Thinking
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The way we frame our thinking highly influences the very way we reason. The way we act is consequently influenced by the way we think. And then, we gi...
Richard Sandford: Heritage Mindset
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Time goes by and elements of the past are carried over into the future becoming heritage. Decisions are made on what to carry and what to leave behind...
Nicklas Larsen: Applied Futurism
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we apply futures studies? Why do we need to look into different futures? What is the impact in the present? Today I am thrilled to be joined by...
Ivana Milojević: Futures Fallacies
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Biases are part of our day-to-day thinking and decision making. There are also futures fallacies which sways us from envisioning, using Dorr’s terms...
Maree Conway: Episodic foresight
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episodic foresight is identified as the primary neural mechanism that enables humans to construct images of the futures, providing explanatory power t...
Anita Hazenberg: Police Futures
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Technology and innovation are constantly shaping our lives, often for the better. Yet, today’s security landscape is volatile, subject to unexpected...
Susann Roth: Mission-Oriented Innovation
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mission-oriented innovation and market-shaping policies have recently been adopted by policymakers around the world in international bodies like the E...
Dave Snowden: Cynefin Framework
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Chaos and catastrophe by their very definition do not repeat but it is important to realise that there are different types and levels of uncertaint...
John A. Sweeney: Community Futures
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
People. Interactions. Groups. Relationships. Communities. Participation. Togetherness. Systems. With System we generally defined a group of entities t...
David Kalisz: Beyond Scenario
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Turbulence and uncertainty are still strongly prevalent in our professional and personal lives. How we see, think and explore trends is influencing th...
Ilaria Mazzoleni: Futuring Biomimicry
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Envisioning futures that are non-linear from the present isn’t that hard. Teams need different tools and reasoning to think laterally. By combining ...
Jose Ramos: Anticipatory Experimentation
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Snowden once said “all pandemics afflict societies through the specific vulnerabilities people have created by their relationships with the en...
Betina Szkudlarek: Shifting Paradigms
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paradigms are shifting. We cannot stress it more: things are evolving for the good or the bad. Currently, we do not know how things will unfold in the...
John Rousseau: Responsible Design
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Designers are the creators of new products, services, applications and so on. Simply put, designers are the creators of the things we interact in our ...
Peter Black: Deep Drivers
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We know that there is more than one possible future. Now we have adjusted to what has been called The New Normal, however we are asked to further adap...
Ed Hess: Hyper-Learning
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Hyper-Learning is cognitive, behavioral, and emotional. Yes, Hyper-Learning is behavioral. It is how you think, how you listen, how you connect and...
Loes Damhof: Futures Applied
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The future is Uncertain, Ambiguous, Unknown, Challenging, Novel. In the past months, how many times have you heard these ‘frightening’ words? Toda...
Massimo Garbuio: Value-based Innovation
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 21st century is dictated by complex, ambiguous and fast changing societal scenarios. Innovation requires new reasoning capabilities to deal with t...
Steve Tighe: Scenario Planning
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some ask what the future will bring, few ask how we can shape that future. It goes without saying that there are several futures, not just one. Howeve...
Sohail Inayatullah: Narrative Foresight
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who doesn’t like a good story to let the imagination flows? Today we explore the value of Narrative Foresight to actually explore, generate and desc...
Riel Miller: Futures Literacy
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a society that is pivoting to a ‘new’ normal which shows the fragility of the interrelationship of its elements and values are changing, people...