Windows Media … Diane speaks with renowned physician and social activist Paul Farmer. In his latest book, he encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times, from global health and poverty to …
Read the full story »Global Trend – Shell in March secured China’s first product sharing contract for shale gas, hoping that getting in early will allow it to be a big beneficiary from the sort of boom in …
Technology Trend – A Riverside company has developed an “electronic nose” prototype that can detect small quantities of harmful airborne substances. Nano Engineered Applications, Inc., an Innovation Economy Corporation company, has completed the prototype which …
Science Trend – Promising results were reported here today from a proof-of-concept clinical trial of an “anti-hunger” ingredient for yogurt, fruit shakes, smoothies and other foods that would make people feel full longer and ease …
Technology Trend – In a few weeks, about 2,800 cars, trucks and buses will start talking to each other on the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in a giant experiment that government officials are hoping …
Environmental Trend – Many things will have to happen if we are to lower greenhouse-gas emissions enough by 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change. One of those things, according to a number of projections, is …
Just as Albert Einstein transformed the physical sciences, Benjamin Graham permanently revolutionized the science of investment finance with boldly original thinking. In place of thinly disguised speculation, Graham introduced a highly lucrative empirical system that …
Environmental Trend – A pair of widely used chemicals in the form of tiny “nanoparticles” have been shown to spread throughout a crop plant or affect growth and soil fertility. The use of nanoparticles is …
Business Trend – More than 5 billion travelers passed through the airports of the world in 2011, according to Airports Council International. That’s an incredible number, considering the population of the entire planet is something …
Technology Trend – Harvard University researchers have developed a squishy robot that can disguise itself or change its color to stand out from its background. Those features, scientists say, could help surgeons plan complicated operations …
Business Trend – As another academic year starts, about 500,000 children across the country will find themselves learning subjects like middle school history or high school biology from a new line of digital textbooks. These …
Technology Trend – Now that tiny computers and electronic communications systems are being designed into cars, hackers can look toward the car, like the PC, as potential roadkill. If cars are to become computers on …
Using case discussions, after-hours talks, and participants’ own strategy dilemmas, Cynthia Montgomery illuminates what strategy is, why it’s important, and what it takes to lead the effort. En route, she equips them to confront the …
Environmental Trend – A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural tendency, whenever it is stressed, to stop growing and put all its energy into making complex carbon compounds. Now scientists at MIT …
Environmental Trend – Even though it sounds like science fiction, researchers are taking a second look at a controversial idea that uses futuristic ships to shoot salt water high into the sky over the oceans, …
Technology Trend – Even with current digital technology, the latest Hollywood blockbusters still rely on clunky glasses to achieve a convincing 3-D effect. New optics research by a team of South Korean investigators offers the …
Global Trend – In its latest confrontation with Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, China might seem to have all the leverage. China is a rising power, having passed Japan as the …
Social Trend – Low-income households in Australia are increasingly at risk of “energy poverty”, a situation in which a household must spend more than 10 percent of its disposable income on energy bills, according to …
Business Trend – The new Microsoft (MSFT) research lab in Manhattan is the latest addition to New York City’s increasingly buzzy tech scene. Headed by mathematical physicist Jennifer Chayes, the lab will focus on Big …
Environmental Trend – With 1.3 billion tons of food trashed, dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year, scientists today described development and successful laboratory testing of a new “biorefinery” intended to …
Global Trend – A new high-speed undersea data cable has opened to traffic in Asia. The 7,800km Asia Submarine-cable Express connects Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. It transfers data via an optical fibre system …
Environmental Trend – A Missouri-based company may have an impact on environmental issues raised by nations of meat-eaters and populations bearing the brunt of world hunger with an alternative, bioprinted meat. According to the company, …
Global Trend – Protests erupted in China and Hong Kong over the weekend as Japanese activists landed on an island in the East China Sea claimed by both countries, intensifying a dispute between Asia’s two …
Technology Trend – Slow network speeds got you down? Computing experts will announce they’re tackling the next speed bump for the venerable Ethernet standard.But don’t expect to find the new speed option on your …
Over the last several decades, China has taken forceful action — from buying up mines, agricultural land, and oil fields to rerouting rivers — to achieve market dominance in the future struggle for global resources. …
Today, in a world that is increasingly driven by faster cycles of change, the need to radically remake — as opposed to just modify or optimize — a business to ongoing environmental changes is greater …
Environmental Trend – With drought parching farms in the United States and near the Black Sea, weak monsoon rains in India and insidious hunger in Africa’s Sahel region, the world could be headed towards another …
When Vern Clark became the Chief of Naval Operations in 2001, he made alignment one of his top five goals for the Navy. He also made George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky’s pioneering book, The Power …
The boundaries between products and services are blurring, and it is time for a different way of thinking: service design thinking. Service design is an exciting, emerging field that has attracted the attention of service …
Technology Trend – We’ve known DNA could be a viable solution for data storage for a while now, but Harvard researchers have just discovered how wildly efficient it could really be by fitting 5.5 petabits, …
Technology Trend – Technology is driving military and civilian uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into remarkable areas. On the smallest scale, moths have had been implanted with electrodes to control their movements. On the …
Business Trend – Pick any product or service that matters. Google’s search engine. Credit cards. Boeing’s 747. The iPhone. Amazon’s recommendation engines. Microprocessors. Subprime mortgages. Indoor plumbing. Laparoscopic surgery. Fracking. Computer-aided design. Customer loyalty programs. …
Business Trend – A funny thing happens on Kickstarter, the website where people ask for money to finance their projects. Sometimes, they get more money than they ask for. Sometimes, they get millions more. In …
Global Trend – Germany is shrinking. Not physically, it remains solidly located straddling northern Europe, connecting east with west. But the population is declining and at an alarming rate. By 2050 the number of Germans …
Business Trend – Three California cities – Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes – have filed for bankruptcy so far this year. They are not likely to be the last, Moody’s said. Moody’s reports that …
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David Forrest is a Canadian writer and strategy consultant. His Integral Strategy™ process has been widely used to increase collaboration in communities, build social capital, deepen commitment to action, and develop creative strategies to deal with complex challenges.
Integral Strategy™ has been applied by businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations to systemic challenges in healthcare, energy, environment, resource management, scientific research, innovation, education, transportation, economic development, community development and community service.
David advises organizations on emerging trends. He uses the term Enterprise Ecology™ to describe how ecological principles can be applied to competition, innovation, and strategy in business.
David is a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada, the World Future Society, and other futures organizations. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. He publishes Innovation Watch, and writes its biweekly trend newsletter, which is emailed to readers in more than 40 countries.
The goal of strategy is to choose the course of action that ensures success and survival. In a world of rapidly accelerating change, today's strategy quickly becomes obsolete. We must be ever more aware of the future we are planning for, since that future will quickly be upon us. Strategic foresight has a serious intent: to improve our understanding of the range of possible futures, and to use that understanding to inform action.
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