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Resources that are useful Learning from the experiences of others is essential in successful planning for the future. You will find on this page links to resources that we have found helpful in getting a handle on future trends and how to use these insights to competitive advantage.
 | Understanding the big picture of the unfolding Future
This is the realm of the futurists; those who are willing to extrapolate trends both in the large and in the narrow domains to suggest how products, services, networks, business models, social structures will evolve. Demographics, resources availability and the human condition are significant factors shaping these projections of the more likely possibilities. Some of the sources that we find useful are: There are surely more. Please feel free to contact us and share your suggestions for forward thinking organizations and experts. |
 | Theories and insights
The tools and insights that both help identify the context of the future and enable better understanding of how to both respond to as well as shape the future are many. Below you will find some of the sources that we have found useful. Getting a handle on the Future - The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil
- The Extreme Future, James Canton, Ph.D.
- The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
- Powerful Times, Eamonn Kelly
- The Next Fifty Years, John Brockman editor
- The Attention Economy, Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck
- Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold
- Futuring, The Exploration of the Future, Edward Cornish
- Fantastic Voyage, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D.
- Radical Evolution, Joel Garreau
- More than Human, Ramez Naam
- The Pentagon's New Map, Thomas P. M. Barnett
- Learning from the Future - Competitive Foresight SCENARIOS, edited by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall
- The Meaning of the 21st Century, James Martin
- The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Exodus to the Virtual World, Edward Castronova
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail, Jared Diamond
Innovation and Disruption - The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen
- The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
- Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change, Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth and Scott D. Anthony
- The Ten Faces of Innovation, Tom Kelly with Jonathan Littman
- Fast Innovation, Michael L. George, James Works, Kimberly Watson-Hemphill
- Diffusion of Innovations, Everett M. Rogers also see Diffusion of Innovation 5th ed.
- Experimentation Matters, Stefan H. Thomke also see this review
- Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
- The Slow Pace of Fast Change, Bhaskar Chakravorti
- Dealing with Darwin, Geoffrey A. Moore
- Creative Destruction, Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan also see these remarks from Joseph Schumpeter
- The Innovation Killer, Cynthia Barton Rabe, See a review from the 2006 Forutune Innovation Forum.
- Innovation Games - Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, Luke Hohmann
Selecting the Role Models, Being a Game Changer - Serious Play, Michael Schrage
- Radical Innovation, Richard Leifer, Christopher M. McDermott, Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Lois S. Peters, Mark Rice and Robert W. Veryzer
- Mavericks at Work, William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre
- Rising Tide - Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Proctor & Gamble, Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario
- Blueprint to a Billion - 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth, David G. Thomson
- Know How - The 8 Skills That Separate People that Perform from Those Who Don't, Ram Charan
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R Covey, also see this review
- Expert Political Judgment, Philip Tetlock, Slow reading but a provocative view of fox vs. hedgehog thinking on complex trends.
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