Futurism vs. Foresight: dreaming the future vs. designing it
It’s 1992. I’m a first-year university student in Romania, just months out of communism. Everything is still raw — the politics, the streets, the sense that the world as we
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Foresight vs. Strategy: Why looking ahead is the only way to win?
Every foresight is a strategy, but not every strategy is foresight. Traditionally, companies do strategic planning once a year, usually in September or October. In the more sophisticated approach, this
The Trap of Methodologies
Methodologies are best understood as instruments or frameworks to achieve specific objectives, not as ideologies requiring blind faith. When tools replace thinking, instead of augmenting it, innovation quietly fails
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