The Briefing.Today Mattia Vettorello

Exploring the use of foresight for unpacking issues on justice, injustice, and inequality. Today I am joined by Matt Finch, Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and strategy consultant at Mechanical dolphin.

The basis of competition is changing. Rivalry is shifting from well-defined industries to broader ecosystems that deliver expansive value propositions. Industry boundaries are collapsing everywhere we look, emergence is around the corner, and this trend is just accelerating. Today I am delighted to talk to Ron Adner, on ecosystem strategy and the value underpinning the design of such. Ron is professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth.

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 give a meaning, we define our surroundings based on such framing. The combination of framing and reasoning affect the way we create hypotheses of the future, whether this is considered probable, possible, plausible and so on. Today I am grateful for the opportunity to welcome Peter Scoblic at The Briefing.Today to talk about long term anticipatory thinking. Peter is co-founder at Event Horizon Strategies.

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, maybe some will be forgotten. How do we make such a decision on what to carry across? What do we as humans look for in making a heritage decision? Today we will talk about the concept of heritage mindset with Richard Sandford, Professor at UCL in Heritage Evidence, Foresight and Policy. Richard has a diverse array of experience: coding, education, futures studies, futures literacy, policy, ethnographic research.

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 Nicklas Larsen, Senior Advisor at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, one of the oldest think tanks studying the future, in the world.

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, “realistic” futures in an effective and efficient manner. These are common errors we fall trap while reasoning about futures. Today I am joined by Ivana Milojević, director at Metafuture and Metafuture School, who has extensive experience researching and experimenting on the subject matter.