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Become a Futurist
1. Introduction to Become a Futurist
1.1 Welcome to the course (5:33)
1.2 Meet Sohail
1.3 The Future as a Learning Journey
1.4 How to run a workshop (2:41)
1.5 Glossary
2. Futures Studies Defined
2.1 What is Futures Studies?
2.2 What are the benefits of Futures Studies? (2:02)
2.3 Challenging our assumptions about the future (5:18)
2.4 A Futurists FAQ (31:04)
3. Beginning the journey
3.1 Choosing the question
3.2 Develop alternative futures
3.3 Define your preferred future
3.4 Quiz
4. What works in Futures Studies
4.1 Does Futures work? (32:41)
4.2 Challenge the used future (2:56)
4.3 Identify emerging issues
4.4 Create alternative futures (11:31)
4.5 Who is not in the room?
4.6 Link story to strategy
4.7 Create the vision
4.8 Action learning
5. Six Pillars and Linked Methods
5.1 Overview (30:47)
6. Pillar 1: Mapping the future
6.1 Overview: Mapping (8:08)
6.2 The Futures Triangle
6.3 The Futures Landscape
7. Pillar 2: Anticipating the Future
7.1 Overview: Anticipation (10:25)
7.2 Emerging Issues Analysis
7.3 The Futures Wheel
7.4 Quiz
8. Pillar 3: Timing the future
8.1 Macro history
8.2 Four Patterns of history
8.3 The Sarkar Game (7:41)
8.4 Quiz
9. Pillar 4: Deepening the Future
9.1 Overview: Deepening (12:43)
9.2 Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
9.3 CLA in action
9.4 Your own CLA
9.5 Quiz
10. Pillar 5: Creating Alternatives with Scenarios
10.1 Overview: Scenarios (7:04)
10.2 Scenario Planning
10.3 Assumptions based scenarios method
10.4 Double Variable Scenario Method
10.5 Multivariable Scenario Method
10.6 Organizational Scenario Method
10.7 Integrated Scenario Method
10.8 When to use which method
10.9 Quiz
11. Pillar 6: Transforming the future
11.1 Overview: Transforming (9:01)
11.2 Visioning
11.3 Backcasting
11.4 Quiz
12. The Six Pillars Approach: Conclusion
12.1 In Conclusion (0:45)
12.2 Selected Bibliography
1.3 The Future as a Learning Journey
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