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eVECTOR: Past copies of eVECTOR, our monthly newsletter, are available:
Publications: SAMI Fellows publish on a range of topics and in a range of
journals. A full list is available here.
Other papers: A list and links to other papers available on this website
is available here.
Other case studies: SAMI Fellows work with other organisations on a variety of interesting projects. Attached is a list of some of the case studies arising.
Third Eye Training: A joint venture between SAMI Consulting and Infinite Futures providing training and seminars on Scenario Planning and Futures. Click here.
Book Reviews by SAMI fellows: A list and links are available here.
Quotes about the future, please send us your favourites: here are some of ours
News Items: Below, chronologically
July 2008
February 2008
January 2008
SAMI presented at a Forum organised by The Conference Board Europe (TCBE) in October on Climate Change. The members of TCBE are major corporates, and there were presentations from the chemical, telecoms, oil, auto, building and banking industries. The overall message was that the carbon economy is being seen as part of good business sense, contributing to the bottom line. The meeting was under the Chatham House rules, but there is a summary on the web site, http://www.conference-board.org/worldwide/climateforum/climatechange.cfm.
The European Futurists Conference, held in Luzern, Switzerland, in November, covered a wide range of issues - from "Will the world end in 2080?" to the future of intellectual property. The web site is http://www.european-futurists.org, and Luzern is a delightful town nestling on the lake among the chocolate box mountains - definitely recommended!
An introductory presentation on scenario thinking, as given to the APM Forum of NGOs, in December can be found here. The questions posed to the forum on views of the future provoked an almost 50/50 split of agreement and disagreement - we would be interested in your views, to futureviews@samiconsulting.co.uk.
October 2007
The IT in 2057 show is now available on DVD and can be ordered from the BCS web site: www.bcs.org
SAMI presented at The Conference Board's Forum on Climate Change, discussing scenarios for adaptation to climate change. The slide set can be found here (PowerPoint). The link to the report from the Forum will be available shortly.
Gill Ringland is presenting "An ICL Case Study" at a Technology Foresight Master Class run by UNIDO. The case study can be found here (Word doc 2 Mb).
The 3rd European Futurists Conference in Lucerne in November promises to be interesting, with among the speakers Susan Greenfield, and Dr Michael Friedewald presenting the scanrios for the future of digital creative content that SAMI helped him with in July. The conference web site is www.european-futurists.org
July 2007
The report on The Future of services to the Public is now published. For the full report follow this link to the CIPFA web site http://www.cipfa.org.uk
Colin Fletcher, SAMI Fellow and Gill Ringland, SAMI Fellow, recently worked with Think London to brief a breakfast meeting of senior business advisers, to look at the priorities for Think London over the next decade. We presented the major trends affecting London over the next ten years and asked where surprises might come from. A summary is here.
May 2007
The conference on "The Future of Services to the Public" was held on 14th May. The focus of this was the future around 2025. By this time, the post second world war consensus on welfare will be under severe strain due to demographic change and to the increased capability (and cost) of potential health care measures. So the futures considered needed to include radically differerent societies while exploring the question - what is the core role of the state? For more details email us at fsp@samiconsulting.co.uk.
March 2007
The City of London held a seminar on London's Competitiveness, at which the topics were the Global Financial Centres Index, London's Place in the UK economy, and SAMI's Scenarios for India and China to 2015: Implications for the City of London. Pdfs of the reports can be found on the City of London web site, http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/.
SAMI Principal Dr Wendy Schultz has won the award for best paper in "Foresight" in 2006, on "The cultural contradictions of managing change: using horizon scanning in an
evidence-based policy context", Vol 8 No 4. The main point of the paper is to point out that there is a cultural contradiction between horizon scanning and traditional research. Traditional research looks for consensus, is mostly
mono-disciplinary and theoretically grounded. Horizon scanning for emerging issues is based often on one or two cases, and experts will often violently attack reports of emerging issues of change, as they represent challenges to current
paradigms and structures of expertise, power, and entitlement; are often noticed initially by fringe sources and challenge previous theoretical structures, forcing the construction of new theories. This cultural contradiction
is one of the reasons that organisations - whether public or private sector - find it hard to react effectively to the results of horizon scanning.
The full article is reproduced here
The conference on "The Future of Services to the Public" will be held on 14th May.
The focus of this will be the future around 2025. By this time, the post-war consensus on welfare will be under severe
strain due to demographic change and to the increased capability (and cost) of potential health care measures.
So the futures considered need to include radically differerent societies while exploring the question -
what is the core role of the state?
For more details email us at fsp@samiconsulting.co.uk.
John Reynolds gave a presentation at the Richmond Group on "Resilence in
Corporate Planning", the slide set can be found on the SAMI web site, http://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/saminews.html.
Gill Ringland led a session at Cass Business School's Centre for Organisational Learning, focusing on the use of scenarios to help organizations learn
Strategy and Leadership published an article by Andrew Curry, Gill Ringland
and Laurie Young on "Using scenarios to improve Marketing". Reprints are available from Gill Ringland at Sami
Vector Newsletter: Click below to see our newsletter VECTOR, downloadable in PDF format. (* Those asterisked are over 2Mb.)
January 2004 Building a Stronger Businesss Model (John Egan); Visions from the Bay (World Future Society). April 2004 Reshaping Reinsurance; The Role of Foresight; Scenarios for Line Managers. July 2004* Renaissance in the Tees Valley; The Challenge of Public Sector Innovation; Creating a Vision for Surrey in 2020. October 2004 Implications of Climate Change; Surrey 2020 Update; Staying aloft in Stormy Conditions (BAA); Europe in 2020. February 2005 Corporate Responsibility; Taking on Sustainability; Sowing the Seeds of Global Strength (Nissan). July 2005 Shell's Global Scenarios to 2025; Climate Change (Futures Forum). November 2005* Scenarios in Management Development; Whither the Arts?; Under the Radar - The real IT Revolution. November 2006 Scenarios for China and India. May 2007 Future of Services to the Public; Why use Scenarios in Marketing?; Basel II (Financial Services). November 2007 Scenarios for health and safety; Delivering health care beyond 2020; Long term employee issues. May 2008 The future of financial services; Updating scenarios for India and China; Executive mentoring; Workforce planning
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eVECTOR 2007
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