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| ===== Horizon Scanning ===== | ===== Horizon Scanning ===== |
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| How do we get a sense of the big picture in which our core question or issue is embedded? How do we identify what might be a dynamic potential of a current situation? What are its constants and variables? How does change happen across micro and macro scales, short and long time horizons? How do we filter and collate aspects of the present that might be important for particular futures? Horizon scanning (aka environmental scanning) can help to address such questions in a systematic yet exploratory manner. | How can we get a sense of the big picture in which our core question or issue is embedded? How do we identify the dynamic potential of our current situation? What are the constants and variables? How does change happen across micro and macro scales, short and long time horizons? How do we collect, filter, and collate aspects of the present that could be important for particular futures? Horizon scanning (aka environmental scanning) can help address such questions in a systematic yet exploratory manner. |
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| Horizon scanning refers to a specific aptitude that enables active, curious, open and non-judgmental sensing of change to become a continuous (life-long) practice. Horizon scanning is also a set of specific scanning techniques that can help to focus your futuring research. In horizon scanning you observe and track change from multiple points of view. While scanning, you pay attention to signals of change in the world around you. This practice can help you uncover patterns of change over time and anticipate how they might evolve to shape different futures. You observe, collect and track different signals of change, and collate them into bigger patterns of change, such as trends and driving forces. | Horizon scanning refers to a specific aptitude that enables a broad, active, curious, and pre-judgmental sensing of change as part of a continuous (life-long) practice. Horizon scanning is also a set of specific scanning techniques that can help to focus your futuring research. In horizon scanning you observe and track change from multiple points of view. While scanning, you pay attention to signals of change in the world around you. This practice can help you uncover patterns of change over time and anticipate how they might evolve to shape different futures. You observe, collect and track different signals of change, and collate them into bigger patterns of change, such as trends and driving forces. |
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| //"Almost all foresight work starts with or involves Horizon Scanning. 'Horizon, or Environmental, Scanning is the art of systematically exploring the external environment to better understand the nature and pace of change in that environment, and identify potential opportunities, challenges, and likely future developments"// | //"Almost all foresight work starts with or involves Horizon Scanning. 'Horizon, or Environmental, Scanning is the art of systematically exploring the external environment to better understand the nature and pace of change in that environment, and identify potential opportunities, challenges, and likely future developments"// |
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