INSIGHTS ON FORESIGHT: SCENARIOS, MAGRITTE, AND LOOKING AT STRATEGY

Insights on Foresight provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of the fundamentals of scenario planning while also encouraging its readers to go further - to elevate and enrich not only their understanding but also their active practice.This strikingly original critical review of how strategies are looked at and seen is a key resource for students and scholars, but also for industry professionals and practitioners. Reflecting on insights gathered over more than four decades of foresight work across all continents - including research, consulting work, and teaching with individuals and small teams working in NGOs, scientific fields, labour unions, cities, governments, think-tanks, companies, universities, social movements, banks, and intergovernmental organisations - Professor Rafael Ramírez, Director of the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre, highlights the advantages a foresight perspective offers for viewing strategy more productively.Part of this book's uniqueness rests on comparing this foresight perspective with the work of the Belgian surrealist Magritte - how can a viewer change their own relative location in time and space? And how, in turn, can a scenario planner change their own foresight position in relation to their strategy?