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Making Futures Work: Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation, and Strategy

Making Futures Work: Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation, and Strategy


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Learn how to get started with Futures Thinking. With this practical guide, Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative and the global Speculative Futures network, shows you how designers and futurists have made futures work at companies such as Atari, IBM, Apple, Disney, Autodesk, Lufthansa, and McKinsey explore Speculative Design to deal with the relationship between science, technology, and humans; and Design Fiction to explore and critique possible futures. Balagtas also shares stories from his journey to build a global community and describes how he works with clients to reshape the futures vocabulary. With this guide, you'll learn how to: Prepare your client, team, and/or audience for futures Facilitate and work with the fundamental methods and frameworks Gain advocacy and support within your organization Provide measurable value from the process and outcomes Build a futures culture and team Sustain a culture and support system beyond projects

About the Author :
Phil Balagtas is a design leader with over 2 decades of experience creating innovative digital products and services. Working for companies such as General Electric and McKinsey & Company, he has served a variety of sectors such as aviation, healthcare, utilities, consumer electronics, and retail to name a few. As a consultant he has helped transform businesses through cultural and digital transformations, trained teams on Design Thinking and designed and shipped digital products for B2B and B2C organizations. He is also the founder of the Design Futures Initiative, a nonprofit based in San Francisco focused on the advancement of Futures Thinkingâ principles and methodologies for assessing the threats and opportunities of the future. Through this initiative he has worked with the United Nations, Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco and also founded a global network of Futures Thinking chapters called Speculative Futures. Working as both a Futures expert, evangelist and consultant, he has been studying and applying Futures to a variety of business and organizational contexts in an attempt to integrate it into the design practice and make the approach more practical, accessible and viable for business and product strategy.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781098148904
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media
  • Publisher Imprint: O'Reilly Media
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 325
  • Sub Title: Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation, and Strategy
  • ISBN-10: 1098148908
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 00
  • Width: 152 mm


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